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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
Sermon 15: 25. Then came she and worshipped him; saying, Lord help me]
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7. She seeth it is a trial,1 as is clear by her instant pursuing after Christ, after many repulses: Its great mercy that God cometh not behind backs, and striketh not in the dark, Psal. 77.10. ⟨p. 164⟩And I said, this is my infirmity; he gathereth his scattered thoughts, & taketh himself in the temptation: Its mercy 1. To see the temptation in the face; some lie under a dumb & a deaf temptation, that wanteth all the five senses: Cain is murdered in the dark at midnight with the temptation, & he knoweth not what it meaneth: 2. Gods immediate hand is more to be looked at, then any other temptation: 3. Hence the conscience is timorous and traverseth its ways under the Trial; when a night Traveller dare not trust the ground he walketh on, he is in a sad condition; he is under two evils, and hath neither comfort nor confidence, Isa. 50. He that walketh in darkness, and hath no light (but some glimmering of star light, or half moon under the earth, and knoweth not the ground he walketh in) Let him trust in the name of the Lord.
7. She seeth it is a triall,1 as is clear by her instant persuing after Christ, after many repulses: Its great mercy that God cometh not behinde backs, and striketh not in the dark, Psal. 77.10. ⟨p. 164⟩And I said, this is my infirmity; he gathereth his scattered thoughts, & taketh himself in the temptation: Its mercy 1. To see the temptation in the face; some lie under a dumb & a deaf temptation, that wanteth all the five senses: Cain is murthered in the dark at midnight with the temptation, & he knoweth not what it meaneth: 2. Gods immediate hand is more to be looked at, then any other temptation: 3. Hence the conscience is timerous and traverseth its wayes under the Triall; when a night Traveller dare not trust the ground he walketh on, he is in a sad condition; he is under two evils, and hath neither comfort nor confidence,