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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
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13. Sheep are docile creatures, John 10.27. My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me There is a Controversy with Papists, how we know Scripture to be the Word of God: there is two things here considerable, one within, and another without. How knoweth the Lamb its mother amongst a thousand of the Flock? Natural instinct teacheth it. From what Teacher or Art is it, that the Swallow buildeth its clay House and Nest, and every Be knoweth its own cell and waxen House: so the instinct of Grace knoweth the voice of the Beloved amongst many voices, Cant. 2.8. and this discerning power is in the Subject. There is another power in the Object, of many thousand Millions of men, since the Creation, not one, in ⟨p. 137⟩figure and shape, is altogether like another, some visible difference there i•: amongst many voices, no voice like mans tongue: amongst Millions of diverse Tongues of men, every voice hath an audible difference printed on it, by which its discerned from all other. To the new Creature, there is in Christs Word some character, some found of Heaven, that is in no voice in the world, but in his only, in Christ represented to a believers eye of Faith: there is a shape, and a stamp of Divine Majesty, no man knoweth it, but the believer: and in Heaven and Earth, Christ hath not a Marrow like himself. Suppose there were an hundred counterfeit Moons, or fancied Suns in the Heaven, a natural eye can discern the true Moon, and the natural Sun from them all: the eye knoweth white not to be black, nor green. Christ offered to the eye of faith, stampeth on faiths eye, species, little Images of Christ, that the soul dare go to Death, and to Hell with it: this, this only was Christ, and none other but he only.
13. Sheep are docile creatures, Iohn 10.27. My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me There is a Controversie with Papists, how we know Scripture to be the Word of God: there is two things here considerable, one within, and another without. How knoweth the Lamb its mother amongst a thousand of the Flock? Naturall instinct teacheth it. From what Teacher or Art is it, that the Swallow buildeth its clay House and Nest, and every Bee knoweth its own cell and waxen House: so the instinct of Grace knoweth the voice of the Beloved amongst many voices,