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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
Sermon 12: And his Disciples came and besought him, saying Send her away, &c.
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SERMON XII. And his Disciples came and besought him, saying Send her away, &c.
IN the Disciples we see little tenderness, no more, but send her away, she troubleth us with crying ▪ forsooth they were sore slain, that their dainty ears were pained with the crying of a poor woman. Why? they say not, Dear master, her little daughter is tormented with the Devil, and thou her Saviour answerest her not one word; she cannot but break her heart: we pray thee Master, heal her daughter: Doct. Natural men, or Christs Disciples, in so far as t•er• is flesh in them, understandeth not the mystery of sorrow, and fervour of affection in ⟨p. 117⟩the Saints, crying to God in desertion, 1and not heard. 1. Natural men jeer at Christ deserted, Psal 22.8. He trusted in the Lord, let him deliver him. Heavy was the spirit of the weeping Church, a captive woman at the rivers of Babylon; yet see they mock them; Sing us one of the songs of Zion. 2. Even the Saints in so far as they are unrenewed, are strangers to inward conflicts of souls praying, and not answered of God, the fainting and swooning Church, Cant. 5.6, 7. is pained; O dear watch men, saw you my Husband? Heavy was her spirit, but what then? v. 7. The watch-men, that went about the City found me, they smote me, they §1wounded me, the keepers of the walls took away §2my veil from me; in stead of binding up her wounds, they returned her buffets, and pulled her hair down about her ears. And the daughters of Jerusalem say to the sick sighing Church pained for the want of her Lord, v. 9. What is thy beloved more then another beloved, &c. Whereof is thy Christ made, of Gold? or is thy beloved more precious then all beloveds in the world? Troubled Hannah grieved in spirit, to Eli, is a drunken woman. The Angels find Mary Magdalen weeping, they leave her weeping, they give her a doctrinal comfort; Woman why weepest thou, he is not here, he is risen again. 1. If a string in the conscience be broken, the Apostles that were with Magdalen cannot tie a knot on it again; If there be a rent