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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.
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.
124. But he answered and said, I am not sent but for the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
- 1ver. 24
In this answer two things are to be observed; 1. The temptation coming from Christ, denying he had any thing to do with this woman, I am not sent for her. 2. The matter of the temptation, containing Christs 1. sending: 2. to whom, To the house of Israel: 3. Under what notion, The sheep of the house of Israel: 4. what sort of sheep, The lost sheep. In the temptation consider, 1. who tempteth; 2. the nature of the temptation; for the former, Its Christ who tempteth. Hence these Positions;
11. Pos. God tempeth no man to sin, Jam. 1.13. Let no man say, when he is tempted, I am tempted of God, for God cannot be tempted, neither tempteth he any. 14. But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust: God doth try, rather then tempt. 1. God cannot command sin. 2. He cannot actuate the crooked faculties to sin, as he that spurreth a Horse, putteth the horse to actual motion: But the dislocated leg of the horse putteth in act the halting power of the horse. 3. He cannot infuse sinful habits, which are as weights of Iron and Lead, to incline the soul to sin. 4. He cannot ⟨p. 121⟩approve sin. Satan never tempteth, but upon practical knowledge, either that the wheels may run down the mount, as he tempted Eve,