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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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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, ⟨p. 141⟩where there be a great multitude of wheels, the standing of some five or six, is the advancing of the work in other twenty, or forty wheels: In desertion some wheels are at a stand, and move not; as often acts of feeling, joy, self-delight in the actual beholding of Christ, are at a stand; and then its thus: I said, I am cast out of his sight, yet other wheels are moving, as 1. Humble and base thoughts of himself. 2. Broad and large thoughts of Christ, and his grace. 3. Hunger and longing for Christ. 4. Self diffidence is much. 5. Care and love-sickness (Saw you him whom my soul loveth) is vehement. 6. Sense of sin, and of wants and spiritual poverty increaseth now. 7. Sense of the misery of the combat, is much more then before: O miserable man that I am, &c. 8. Believing under hope, and against hope, is strongest now. 9. There's more tenderness and humble fear now then before. 10. A stronger resolution to entertain Christ more kindly, when he shall return again in his fullness of presence. 11. Sorrow, that remembering he said, My head is full of dew, and my locks with the drops of the night, Cant. 5.6. Yet the sleeping soul kept him at the door.
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 beleeving, and longing for Christ think themselves Apostates, when they are advancing in their way▪ In great water-works, ⟨p. 141⟩where there be a great multitude of wheels, the standing of some five or six, is the advancing of the work in other twenty, or forty wheels: In desertion some wheels are at a stand, and move not; as often acts of feeling, joy, self-delight in the actuall beholding of Christ, are at a stand; and then its thus: I said, I am cast out of his sight, yet other wheels are moving, as 1. Humble and base thoughts of himself. 2. Broad and large thoughts of Christ, and his grace. 3. Hunger and longing for Christ. 4. Self diffidence is much. 5. Care and love-sicknesse (Saw you him whom my soul loveth) is vehement. 6. Sense of sin, and of wants and spirituall poverty increaseth now. 7. Sense of the misery of the combate, is much more then before: O miserable man that I am, &c. 8. Believing under hope, and against hope, is strongest now. 9. There's more tendernesse and humble fear now then before. 10. A stronger resolution to entertain Christ more kindly, when he shal return again in his fulnesse of presence. 11. Sorrow, that remembring he said, My head is full of dew, and my locks with the drops of the night,