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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. The Son was qualified:1 1. With a Passive aptitude (to speak so) to be a man, that he might suffer: 2. He was graced with all active endowments, to be a Mediator; The groundwork of all was the grace of Union, the God-head dwelling bodily in him: 2. The sea of infused graces above all his fellows: to say nothing of what he learned by experience, being a Son put to School [Greek or Hebrew] he learned his lesson of obedience, with many stripes, though an innocent child, Heb. 7. v. 8. Hence he came loaded with Grace and blessings for all the cursed sons.
2. The Son was qualified:1 1. With a Passive aptitude (to speak so) to be a man, that hee might suffer: 2. He was graced with all active indowments, to be a Mediator; The groundwork of all was the grace of Union, the God-head dwelling bodily in him: 2. The sea of infused graces above all his fellows: to say nothing of what he learned by experience, being a Son put to School 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 he learned his lesson of obedience, with many stripes, though an innocent childe, Heb. 7. v. 8. Hence he came loaded with Grace and blessings for all the cursed sons.
- 12. The qualification of Christ.
3. All was nothing,1 except this Ambassador of Heaven had also had a Commission for us: but he brought two Writs, two Books from Heaven: 1. He came as a flying Angel with the ⟨p. 128⟩