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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.
Few or none are tempted, but the upshot of the temptation is to beget big apprehensions of the temptation: never was man in the condition I am in: Christ answereth the Devils when they cry, he will not give me one look, one cast of his eye, not one half word: The temptation must represent Christ, as a non-such for rough dealing, and the tempted a non-such for misery: Elijah must say,1 1 Kin. 18.20. I, even I only, am left alone, and they seek my life, Ps. 22.4. Our fathers trusted is thee, they trusted in thee, and were delivered, vers. 6. But I am no body: But I am a worm and no man, Lam. 1.12. O passers by, hear behold, and see if there be any sorrow, like unto my sorrow! &c. 1 Cor. 4.9. We are made a theatre, a spectacle to men and Angels: The temptation must put on the face of Hell to drive at this, to cause the child of God put himself out of the Calendar and society of Gods children: hence, that (no there was never a soul since the world was, like me, I am my alone. 1. Christ once, first or last, must be no Christ,2 and God not God to the tempted, Hath he forgotten to be gracious? Psal. 77. A forgetting God, a changed God is not God; stick by this principle, Yet he is Christ, and my Christ too. 2. Its said, ⟨p. 112⟩§2he answered her not a word: but its not said, he heard not one word: these two differ much: Christ often heareth when he doth not answer, his not answering is an Answer, and speaks this, pray on, go on, and cry) for the Lord holdeth his door fast bolted, not to keep out, but that you may knock and knock: prayer is to God, worship: to us, often, its but a servant upon mere necessity sent on a business: The father will cause his child say over again, what he once heard him say, because he delighteth to hear him speak: so God heareth and layeth by him an answer for Ephraim,