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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.
5. Rule, Slander not Gods ways of Providence, ⟨p. 105⟩with the reproach of confusion and disorder; to God all his works are good,1 very good as were the works of creation. There is a long chain, and concatenation of Gods ways, Counsels. Decrees, Actions, Events, Judgements, Mercies; and there is white, and black, good and evil, crooked and straight interwoven in this web, and the links of this chain, partly gold, partly brass, iron and clay, and the threads of his dispensation go along through the Patriarchs days, Adam, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and are spun through the ages of Moses and the Church in Egypt, and the wilderness, and come through the times of the Kings of Israel and Judah, and the captivities of the Church, and descend along through the generations of Prophets; Christ, the Apostles, persecuting Emperors, and Martyrdoms of the witnesses of Jesus, slain by the woman drunken with the blood of the Saints, while the end of the thread, and last link of the chain be tied to the very day of the marriage of the Lamb: now in this long contexture of divine Providence you see: 1. Not one thread broken, My father worketh hitherto, and I work, (saith Christ) providence hath no vacancy, but causes, events, actions, ways, are all bordered one upon another, by the wisdom of Providence, so that links are chained, and fettered to links, not by hazard or chance: 2. Though this web be woven of threads of divers colours, ⟨p. 106⟩black and white, comfortable and sad passages of Gods Providence, yet all maketh a fair order in this long way; Jacob weepeth for his dead child Joseph: Joseph rejoiceth to come out of the prison to reign; David danceth with all his might before the Ark: David weepeth sore for Absalom his sons miserable death: Job washeth his steps with butter, and the Candle of the Almighty shineth on his head; and Job defileth his horn in the dust, and lieth on ashes, and mourneth, all is beauty and order to God.
5. Rule, Slander not Gods wayes of Providence, ⟨p. 105⟩with the reproach of confusion and disorder; to God all his works are good,