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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
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. It is the happiness of our Land,1 that we have a three-fold relation to Christ, I mean these two Nations, that we have avowed the Lord by a National Testimony, and the Nations are the public Martyrs and witnesses of Christ, in that they are made a field of blood, for no other quarrel, but because they desire to stand for Christ Truth, against Antichrist: sure in the intention of Papists now in Arms against us, there is no cause of War but this only. 2. That we have sworn that the Lord shall be our God, in a Solemn Covenant. 3. That we are honoured to build the Temple of the Lord, and reform Religion. O that we could see our debt and be thankful.
2. It is the happinesse of our Land,1 that we have a three-fold relation to Christ, I meane these two Nations, that we have avowed the Lord by a Nationall Testimony, and the Nations are the publick Martyrs and witnesses of Christ, in that they are made a field of blood, for no other quarrell, but because they desire to stand for Christ Truth, against Antichrist: sure in the intention of Papists now in Armes against us, there is no cause of War but this only. 2. That we have sworn that the Lord shal be our God, in a Solemn Covenant. 3. That we are honoured to build the Temple of the Lord, and reform Religion. O that we could see our debt and be thankfull.
- 1The honour and privilege of Britain.The honour and priviledg of Britain.
3. The Jews had the morning market of ⟨p. 134⟩Christ, and they would not pay the rent of the Vineyard to the Lord thereof: we have the after noon of Christ, and know we what a mercy it is, that our beloved feedeth amongst the Lilies, till the day break, and the shadows fly away, and that the voice of the Turtle is heard in our Land? God for our abuse of the Gospel hath sent amongst us the bloody Pursuivants, and Officers of his wrath, men skilful to destroy; God is now in three Kingdoms, arresting the Carcasses of men, we are owing much to God, he will now have husbands, and sons from us, and legs, and arms of wounded and slain men from us, for that rent we owe to the Lord of the vineyard, for our contempt of the Gospel.