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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.
Observe 1. The woman's witty answer by retortion in great quickness by concession of the conclusion, and granting she was a Dog, she borroweth the Argument, & taketh it from Christs mouth to prove her question: She Argueth from the temptation: Let me be a Dog, so I be a Dog under Christs feet at his Table:1 Wisdoms Scholars are not fools: Grace is a witty and understanding Spirit, ripe and sharp; so its said of Christ, Isa. 11.3. [Greek or Hebrew] Vatablus: Odorari facit illum Forerius respirare ejus erit in timore Domini. Grace has a sagacity to smell things excellently; so Prov. 1.4 The wisdom of God in the Proverbs giveth subtlety to the simple; Vatablus ductilibus calliditatem, [Greek or Hebrew] Petaim, à Rad. [Greek or Hebrew] Aquila, [Greek or Hebrew] such as may easily be milked, and flattered, and persuaded: in young ones, reason sleepeth, affection ruleth all: and [Greek or Hebrew] Gnarma, the 70. [Greek or Hebrew] quickness in all ⟨p. 190⟩things: and the other word, [Greek or Hebrew] rendered Discretion, its Thoughtfulness: grace furnisheth the soul with quick, sharp, deep thoughts, to know a Devil, & an Angel; Heaven, & hell; and that stolen waters are not sweet, Heb. 5.14. They have [Greek or Hebrew] their spiritual senses are as wrestlers experienced, or as learned Scholars in Universities, acquainted with the knowledge of good and ill. 2. Faith is thus pregnant, as to draw saving conclusions from hard principles, and to extract the spirit of the promises. Christ came to save sinners: then saith Paul, to save me: for 1 Tim. 1.15. I am the chief of these sinners, and though a temptations language be the language of hell and unbelief; as thus, Thou art a sinner, a lost and a condemned one, and therefore hast nothing to do with Christ: Faith argueth the language of Heaven, and the Gospel from this: I am a sinner, and a lost one, but one of Christs sinners, and one of Christs lost ones, and for that same very cause, I belong to Christ.