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The trial & triumph of faithThe tryal & triumph of faith
The trial & triumph of faith: or, An exposition of the history of Christs dispossessing of the daughter of the woman of Canaan Delivered in sermons; in which are opened, the victory of faith; the condition of those that are tempted; the excellency of Jesus Christ and free-grace; and some special grounds and principles of libertinism and antinomian errors, discovered by Samuel Rutherfurd, professor of divinity in the University of St. Andrews. Published by authority.The tryal & triumph of faith: or, An exposition of the history of Christs dispossessing of the daughter of the woman of Canaan Delivered in sermons; in which are opened, the victory of faith; the condition of those that are tempted; the excellency of Jesus Christ and free-grace; and some speciall grounds and principles of libertinisme and antinomian errors, discovered by Samuel Rutherfurd, professor of divinity in the University of St. Andrews. Published by authority.
London: printed by John Field, 1652
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Object. 2. I have not so much as a voice to utter to God; and Christ saith, Cant. 2.14. Cause me hear thy voice. Ans. Yea, but some other thing hath a voice beside the tongue, Psal. 6.8. ⟨p. 56⟩The Lord has heard the voice of my weeping: Tears have a tongue, and Grammar, and language, that our Father knoweth. Babes have no prayers for the breast, but weeping, the mother can read hunger on weeping.
Object. 3. But I am often so as I cannot weep, weeping is peculiar to a man as laughing is, 1and spiritual weeping is peculiar to the renewed man. Ans. Vehemency of affection doth often move weeping, so as it is but spilt weeping that we can attain hence, Hezekiah can but chatter as a crane, and a swallow, and moan as a dove, Is. 38.14. Sorrow keepeth not alway the Roadway, weeping is but the scabbard of sorrow, and there's often more sorrow where there is little or no weeping, there's most of fire, where there is least smoke.
Object. 3. But I am often so as I cannot weep, weeping is peculiar to a man as laughing is, 1and spirituall weeping is peculiar to the renewed man. Ans. Vehemencie of affection doth often move weeping, so as it is but spilt weeping that we can attain hence, Ezechiah can but chatter as a crane, and a swallow, and moan as a dove, Is. 38.14. Sorrow keepeth not alway the Roadway, weeping is but the scabberd of sorrow, and there's often more sorrow where there is little or no weeping, there's most of fire, where there is least smoak.
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