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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.
The dispute between Christ and the woman goeth on: Christ bringeth a strong reason, vers. 26. why he should not heal he• daughter; because she, and all her nation, not being in Covenant with God, as are the Jews the Church of God, are but dogs, and profane, and unworthy of Christ, which is the bread ordained for the children.
THe dispute between Christ and the woman goeth on: Christ bringeth a strong reason, vers. 26. why he should not heal he• daughter; because she, and all her nation, not being in Covenant with God, as are the Jews the Church of God, are but dogs, and profane, and unworthy of Christ, which is the bread ordained for the children.
1When Christ humbleth, he may put us in remembrance of our nation, and national sins, Isa. 51.1. Look to the Rock whence ye were hewen, and to the hole of the pit whence ye were ⟨p. 173⟩digged—I alone called Abraham, he was an Idolater, Hos. 9.10. I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness, they should have been wild grapes rotten in the wilderness, had I not put them in my basket, Ezek. 16.2. Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abomination. How? Make them know the stock they came of. 3. And say, thus saith the Lord unto Jerusalem, Thy birth, and thy nativity, is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite. When the Jews was to offer the first fruits to the Lord, Deu. 26.5. And thou shalt speak, and say before the Lord thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and went down to Egypt to sojourn there. Thus the forgetting of what we are by nature, addeth to our guiltiness,