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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]
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.
Obj. But it is a greater sin to go to Christ, being in a state of sin: 1What have I to do to go to him whom I have offended so highly? Ans. To run from Christ under desertion, is two deaths. 1. Desertion is one, and if real, the saddest hell out of hell. 2. To flee from Christ and life is another death; now to come to him, though he should kill thee for thy presumption, is but one death, and a little one in comparison of the other, and one little death is rather to be chosen, then two great deaths. 2. Consider how living a death it is to be killed doing a duty, and aiming to flee in to Christ; better die by Christs own hand (if so it must be) as by another: and better be buried, and lie dead at his feet, as to run away from him in a heavy desertion: if the believer must die, its better his grave to be made under the Throne, and under the feet of Jesus Christ, as to die in a state of strangeness, and ⟨p. 156⟩alienation from Christ, not daring to come nigh him: all the deserted ones that we read of did flee in to himself, Psal. 34. Psal. 88. Psal. 39. Job 13.15. Isa. 38. 2. Its good to claim him as thy God, though he should deny thee, and creep into him, though he should throw thee out of his sight: Better kiss the sword that killeth thee, and be slain with his own hand, as cast away thy confidence.
Obj. But it is a greater sin to go to Christ, being in a state of sin: 1What have I to do to go to him whom I have offended so highly? Ans. To run from Christ under desertion, is two deaths. 1. Desertion is one, and if reall, the saddest hell out of hell. 2. To flee from Christ and life is another death; now to come to him, though he should kill thee for thy presumption, is but one death, and a little one in comparison of the other, and one little death is rather to be chosen, then two great deaths. 2. Consider how living a death it is to be killed doing a duty, and aiming to flee in to Christ; better die by Christs own hand (if so it must be) as by another: and better be buried, and lie dead at his feet, as to run away from him in a heavy desertion: if the believer must die, its better his grave to be made under the Throne, and under the feet of Jesus Christ, as to die in a state of strangenesse, and