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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.
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. 1Sheep] first a word of Sheep, then of lost sheep: I take no other reasons why the redeemed of the Lord are called sheep, then are obvious in Scripture. 1. The sheep are passive creatures, and can do little for themselves, so can believers in the work of their salvation: as
3. The Iewes 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 Lillies, till the day break, and the shadowes 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 Pursevants, and Officers of his wrath, men skilfull to destroy; God is now in three Kingdomes, arresting the Carcases of men, we are owing much to God, he will now have husbands, and sons from us, and leggs, and armes of wounded and slain men from us, for that rent we owe to the Lord of the vineyard, for our contempt of the Gospell. 1Sheep] first a word of Sheep, then of lost sheep: I take no other reasons why the redeemed of the Lord are called sheep, then are obvious in Scripture. 1. The sheep are passive creatures, and can do little for themselves, so can believers in the work of their salvation: as
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