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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.
1. He can at our first conversion make us §1Glorified and perfected Saints; but its his wisdom to take a time and succession to perfect his Saints,1 he took about thirty and three years on earth for the work of our Redemption, and would for three days lodge in the grave, as it were a neighbour to our Father corruption, and the worm our brother and sister, Job. 17.14 (Though he saw no corruption, Psal. 16.10. He hath been dressing up the high Palace of Glory, his Fathers house, these sixteen hundred years, if he be pleased to take months and years to the work of the applying of purchased Redemption; whereas he might and could have ⟨p. 217⟩done it in one instant, as he created light out of darkness with one word; we are to be silent, his wisdom in so doing is sufficient for us, the second heaven, and the new light in the redeemed soul is done by continuing acts of omnipotency, the first heaven was sooner made; shall it seem hard to us, that our midnight, and our full noon-day-light of grace are not existent in one instant together? We are to wait on in patience, and not to fret that we cannot at our first conversion pray out of us the indwelling body of sin, and sigh out the weight and sin that doth so hardly beset us, Heb. 12.1. God is wise who will have our day to break and dawn by degrees, and our shadows to flee away; and our Sun to arise to Noon-day-light, through length of time, if a creature, yea, the most excellent of created Angels should but sit at the helm of this great world to Rule & Govern all things but for forty and eight hours, the Sun should not rise in due time, the walls and covering of the great building of the world should fall, the Globe of the world, and of the whole earth should reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, all should go to confusion; and so if we had a world of Grace of our own carving, and had it in our wise choice to go from the first moment of our New-birth to heaven, without sin, we should lose our selves by the way, and take on new debt, that should require the new and fresh crucifying of the Lord of