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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.
2. Pos. Neither Devils, nor men,1 nor our heart may, without sin, tempt or try the creature by putting it to do that which may prove sin, upon any intention to try, whether that creature shall obey God or not: Had Abraham commanded Isaac to kill Jacob his son, to try whither Isaac loved God, or no, it had been a sinful tempting of him. A creature cannot put his fellow-creature upon the margin & border of death (such as all sin is) to try if the creature hath a good head that cannot be giddy. God may try duties by events, He is the Potter, we the Clay: but clay is limited to try events upon clay by duties only; and not by events duties.
2. Pos. Neither Devils, nor men,1 nor our heart may, without sin, tempt or try the creature by putting it to do that which may prove sin, upon any intention to try, whether that creature shall obey God or not: Had Abraham coōmanded Isaac to kil Iacob his son, to try whither Isaac loved God, or no, it had been a sinful tempting of him. A creature cannot put his fellow-creatur upon the margin & border of death (such as all sin is) to try if the creature hath a good head that cannot be giddy. God may try duties by events, He is the Potter, we the Clay: but clay is limited to try events upon clay by duties only; and not by events duties.
- 12 Pos. A creature cannot put another creature to act sin, upon an intention to try his fellow-creature.
3. Pos. Wanton and vain reason would say, Why did the wise Lord create such a Tree of Knowledge, the tasting whereof, 1was the second death by Law, and that in Eves eye? Why ⟨p. 122⟩