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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.
I am not sent] He doth not here deny the interests of the Gentiles in the Messiah, but his meaning is, I am not first and principally sent; 2. in the flesh, and personally as man for the Gentiles, to preach the Gospel to them, and to work Miracles for them, but principally as the Minister of Circumcision, to the Jews; therefore Mat. 10. he forbiddeth his Disciples ⟨p. 126⟩to go to the Samaritans, but rather to preach to the house of Israel. First then a word of Christs sending, which includeth these three: 1. Designation. 2. Qualification. 3. Special Commission.
I am not sent] He doth not here deny the interests of the Gentiles in the Messiah, but his meaning is, I am not first and principally sent; 2. in the flesh, and personally as man for the Gentiles, to preach the Gospell to them, and to work Miracles for them, but principally as the Minister of Circumcision, to the Iewes; therefore Mat. 10. he forbiddeth his Disciples ⟨p. 126⟩to go to the Samaritanes, but rather to preach to the house of Israel. First then a word of Christs sending, which includeth these three: 1. Designation. 2. Qualification. 3. Speciall Commission.
11. The Designation was an act of Divine and voluntary dispensation, according to which the second Person of the Trinity, the Son of God, not the Father, not the Holy Ghost, was designed, and set apart to take on him our nature, place, and the Office of the Mediator to redeem us, in his own person: the Son was fittest to be the first, and original sampler of sons, the Son by natural generation was the most apt Person to be the perfect mould and pattern of all the sons by the adoption of grace,