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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.
1. Faith is leisurely to look to Christ, in bringing his work out of the mould and taking the new ship off the stocks,1 as a perfected vessel: We conceive erroneously that Faith only eyeth Christ as pardoning;2 and that it hath no eye, no activity and influence on our own gracious acts wrought in us by Christ; but Faith is an agent, as it is a patient, and joineth with Christ and with Free-will to an active purifying of the heart: It believeth Heaven, and worketh Heaven.
1. Faith is leasurely to look to Christ, in bringing his work out of the mould and taking the new ship off the stocks,1 as a perfected vessell: We conceive erroneously that Faith only eyeth Christ as pardoning;2 and that it hath no eye, no activity and influence on our owne gracious acts wrought in us by Christ; but Faith is an agent, as it is a patient, and joyneth with Christ and with Free-will to an active purifying of the heart: It beleeveth Heaven, and worketh Heaven.
- 11. Consideration.
- 2Faith bo•h active and passive.
2. We often go on imagining that we are in a way of back-sliding,1 deserted souls not conscious of the reflect acts of believing, and longing for Christ think themselves Apostates, when they are advancing in their way In great water-works,