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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1Object. 4. But I have neither weeping one way or other, ordinary, nor marred. Ans. Looking up to heaven, lifting up of the eyes, goeth for Prayer also in Gods Books, Psal. 5.3. My Prayer will I direct to thee, and I will look up, Isa. 48.14. Mine eyes fail with looking upward, Psal. 69.3. Because, 1. Prayer is a pouring out of the soul to God, and Faith will come out at the eye, in lieu of another door, often affections break out at the window, when the door is closed as smoke venteth at the window, when the Chimney refuseth passage; Steven looked up to Heaven, Act. 7.55. He sent a Post, a greedy, pitiful, and hungry look up to Christ, out at ⟨p. 57⟩the window, at the nearest passage, to tell a poor friend was coming up to him: 2. I would wish no more, if I were in Hell, but to send a long-look up to Heaven; there be many love looks of the Saints, lying up before the Throne, in the bosom of Christ: the twinkling of thy eyes in Prayer are not lost to Christ; ely Stevens look, Davids look should not be registered so many hundred years in Christs written Testament.
1Object. 4. But I have neither weeping one way or other, ordinary, nor marred. Ans. Looking up to heaven, lifting up of the eyes, goeth for Prayer also in Gods Books, Psal. 5.3. My Prayer will I direct to thee, and I will look up, Isa. 48.14. Mine eyes fail with looking upward, Psal. 69.3. Because, 1. Prayer is a pouring out of the soul to God, and Faith will come out at the eye, in lieu of another door, often affections break out at the window, when the door is closed as smoak venteth at the window, when the Chimney refuseth passage; Steven lookt up to Heaven,