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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.
1. Use, O what love!1 Christ would not intrust our redemption to Angels,2 to millions of Angels, but he would come himself, and in person suffer, he would not give a low and a base price for us clay, he would buy us with a great ⟨p. 92⟩ransom, so as he might over-buy us, and none could over-bid him in his market for souls; if there had been millions of moe believers, and many heavens without any new bargain, his blood should have bought them all, and all these many heavens should have smelled one Rose of Life; Christ should have been one and the same Tree of Life in them all; O we under-bid, and under-value that Prince of love, who did over-value us; we will not sell all we have to buy him, he sold all he had, and himself too, to buy us.
1. Vse, O what love!1 Christ would not intrust our redemption to Angels,2 to millions of Angels, but he would come himself, and in person suffer, he would not give a low and a base price for us clay, he would buy us with a great ⟨p. 92⟩ransom, so as he might over-buy us, and none could over-bid him in his market for souls; if there had been millions of moe believers, and many heavens without any new bargain, his blood should have bought them all, and all these many heavens should have smelled one Rose of Life; Christ should have been one and the same Tree of Life in them all; O we under-bid, and under-value that Prince of love, who did over-value us; we will not sell all we have to buy him, he sold all he had, and himself too, to buy us.
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- 2Christ immediate in the act of redeeming us, & so sweeter.