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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.
SERMON X.
MY daughter is grievously vexed with a Devil] Children,1 especially to mothers, whose affections are more weak and soft, are taking lovers, especially being parts and substantial shadows of our self; yet four things are considerable in us to them: 1. So to hold, as we are willingly to let go, love them as creatures only; often the child is the mothers daughter, and the mothers God: 2. We are to strive to have them freed from under the power of the Devil, as this woman doth; for they come into the world fuel for Hell: Parents make more account all their life to make gold, rather then grace, their children's Patrimony and Legacy: 3. Look at them as May-flowers, as born to come and appear for a space in the element of death; so they sport, laugh, run, eat, drink, and glister like Comets in the Air,2 or flying Meteors in the Sphere of the Clouds, and often go down to the grave before their Parents: 4. Beware of selfinesse, for children are our self, and their sins white and innocent sins to us: Eli honoured his sons more then God, and God put a mark of wrath on his house.
MY daughter is grievously vexed with a Devill] Children,1 especially to mothers, whose affections are more weak and soft, are taking lovers, especially being parts and substantiall shadows of our self; yet four things are considerable in us to them: 1. So to hold, as we are willingly to let go, love them as creatures only; often the childe is the mothers daughter, and the mothers God: 2. We are to strive to have them freed from under the power of the Devill, as this woman doth; for they come into the world fuell for Hell: Parents make more accompt all their life to make gold, rather then grace, their childrens Patrimony and Legacy: 3. Look at them as May-flowres, as born to come and appear for a space in the element of death; so they sport, laugh, run, eat, drink, and glister like Comets in the Air,