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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.
19.1. but they are but dumb Musicians, they are the Harp, which of it self can make no Music; the creatures borrow mans mouth and tongue to speak what they have been thinking of God and his excellency these five thousand years; now all the glory of God, and the glory of the creatures are made new by Christ, Rev. 21.5. And made friends with God, Col 1.20. and are in a special manner in the Mediator Christ; he is, Heb. 1.3. [Greek or Hebrew] the irradiation or brightness of the glory, and the character or express image of his person: All creatures by Adams sin, lost their golden lustre, and are now vanity-sick, like a woman travelling in birth, Rom. 8.22. All the creatures by sin did less objectively glorify God, then they should have done, if sin had never been in the world, and so they were at a sort of variance and division with God: And it pleased, Col. 1.20. the Father in Christ [Greek or Hebrew] to make friendship between God and all things, that is to confirm Angels, to reconcile man, to restore the creatures to be more illustrious objects of his glory: now the in-come of the rents of glory is more due to Christ, and the debt the greater, in that Christ hath made all things new, and why should we not in the name of Sun, Moon, Earth, Heaven, which are all loosed from the arrestment of vanity by Christ, ⟨p. 95⟩and in the name of Angels and of Saints redeemed, hold forth the praises & the glory of God in Christ? Pa•, pay what you owe to Christ, O all creatures! but especially you redeemed ones.
19.1. but they are but dumb Musitians, they are the Harp, which of it self can make no Musick; the creatures borrow mans mouth and tongue to speak what they have been thinking of God and his excellency these five thousand years; now all the glory of God, and the glory of the creatures are made new by Christ, Rev. 21.5. And made friends with God, Col 1.20. and are in a speciall manner in the Mediator Christ; he is,