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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.
Because humility is a soul smoothed, and lying level with it self, no higher then God hath set it, Ps. 131.1. I do not exercise my self in great matters, or in things too high for me: The proud soul hath feathers broader then his nest: 5. The humble soul is a door-neighbour to Grace:1 Christ is near a cast-down §5mourner in Zion; to give him beauty for ashes, the garments of praise for the spirit of heaviness, Isa. 61.3. Christ hath a Napkin ⟨p. 194⟩for the wet face of a humbled sinner. Christ the Chirurgeon of souls hath a wheel to set in joint the broken heart, Isa. 61.1. There's a Saviours hand in heaven to wheel in an ill-boned soul on earth, Ps. 51.8. O what consolation: Christ doth both seek and save the self-lost soul, Luke 19.10. The Lamb one of the lowliest and meekest creatures hath a bed beside the heart, and in the bosom of Christ, Isa. 40.11. He shall carry the Lambs in his bosom; yea, he shall deliver the needy when he crieth, the poor also, and him that hath no helper, Ps. 72.12. The Lord giveth more grace, he resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble, §6Grace upon grace is for the humble, Jam. 4.6. 6. The humble cannot complain of Gods dispensation,2 1 Sam. 15.26