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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.
Object. 6. I have but a heard heart to offer to God in Prayer, and what can I say then, 1wanting all praying disposition? Ans. 1. Therefore pray, that you may pray: 2. The very aspect, and naked presence of a deed spirit, when there is a little vocal praying, its acceptable to God; or if an overwhelmed heart refuseth to come, its best to go and tell Christ, and request him to come and fetch the heart himself: 3.§1 Little of day light cometh before the Sun, the §2best half of it is under ground, Ro. 8.23. We our §3selves groan within our selves; All is here transacted in our own heart, the soul crieth, O when will my Father come, and fetch his children? ⟨p. 58⟩When shall the Spousely in her Husbands bosom? §44. If Christs eye but look on a hard heart §5it will melt it: 5. I show here the Minimum quod sic, the smallest of Prayer, in which the life and essence of Prayer may breath and live: Now Prayer being a pouring out of the soul to God, much of the affections of love, desire, longing, joy, Faith, sorrow, fear, boldness, comes along with prayer out to God, and the heart is put in Christs bosom, and its neither up nor down to the essence of sincere praying; whether the soul come out in words, in groans, or in long-looks, or in sighing, or in pouring out tears to God, Job 16.20. or in breathing.
Object. 6. I have but a heard heart to offer to God in Prayer, and what can I say then, 1wanting all praying disposition? Ans. 1. Therefore pray, that you may pray: 2. The very aspect, and naked presence of a deed spirit, when there is a little vocall praying, its acceptable to God; or if an overwhelmed heart refuseth to come, its best to go and tell Christ, and request him to come and fetch the heart himself: 3.