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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. The life of sheep is the most dependent life in the world,1 no such dependent Creatures as sheep; all their happiness is the goodness, care and wisdom of their shepherd: Wolves, Lyons, Leopards need none to watch over them: Briers and Thorns grow there alone, the Vine Tree, the noble Vine is a tender thing, and must be supported, Esa, 40.11. Christ must bear the weak Lambs in his bosom: the Shepherds bosom & his legs are the legs of the weak Lamb: even the habit of Grace is a creature, and no ⟨p. 136⟩independent thing, and so in esse; in conserv• ri, in its creation, in its preservation, it dependeth on Christ: Grace is as the new-born Bird, its life is the heat and warmness of the body and wings of the Dam, its like a Chariot, though it have four wheels, yet it moveth only as drawn by the strength of Horses without it, its a Plough of timber only, that without Iron and Steel breaketh up no earth. The new Seed of God acteth as acted by God: hence repenting Ephraim, Jer. 31.18. Turn thou me, and I shall be turned; renewed David is often at this, Quicken me, quicken me: the swooning Church, Cant. 2. Stay me with flagons, and comfort me with apples.
2. The life of sheep is the most dependent life in the world,1 no such dependent Creatures as sheep; all their happinesse is the goodnesse, care and wisdom of their shepherd: Wolves, Lyons, Leopards need none to watch over them: Briers and Thornes grow there alone, the Vine Tree, the noble Vine is a tender thing, and must be supported, Esa, 40.11. Christ must bear the weak Lambs in his bosome: the Shepherds bosome & his legs are the legs of the weak Lamb: even the habit of Grace is a creature, and no ⟨p. 136⟩independent thing, and so in esse; in conserv• ri, in its creation, in its preservation, it dependeth on Christ: Grace is as the new-born Bird, its life is the heat and warmnesse of the body and wings of the Damme, its like a Chariot, though it have four wheels, yet it moveth only as drawen by the strength of Horses without it, its a Plough of timber only, that without Iron and Steel breaketh up no earth. The new Seed of God acteth as acted by God: hence repenting Ephraim,