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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.
5. Faith hath its work in our gradual mortification, we believe that Christ shall perfect what he hath begun, so it was needful that Winter, and months of Spring and Summer go before our harvest and reaping of the fruits of the tree of life.
5. Faith hath its work in our graduall mortification, wee beleeve that Christ shall perfect what he hath begun, so it was needfull that Winter, and moneths of Spring and Summer go before our harvest and reaping of the fruits of the tree of life.
6. Christ works in the lower kingdom, as making the higher kingdom the copy and sampler ⟨p. 221⟩of his working, now its most suitable for flowers and roses, that must be transplanted to grow up in the high garden beside the tree of life, and to blossom out glory for all eternity, that they grow for a time in the land of Grace, that they may take kindly with the soil: so the lower and higher gardens of Glory and Grace differ not in nature, what groweth in the one, can well grow in the other; they cannot suit with the happiness of that land, except they have experienced the holiness of continued Grace in this land, and Christ maketh storms of sin to blow upon his young heirs for their Winter, God keeping life at the root, that they may be fitter for an eternally green flourishing Summer of Glory; and when Christ consecrated himself through many afflictions, that he might be an heir suitable for Glory, he being brought through fire and water, hot and cold, and many changes to heaven, and so came to eternal happiness through many years continued holiness; it was not fit that Christ, who was to make heirs like his rule and sampler, should bring them to glory with a leap and a step, from a justified condition, to a glorified estate, without an intervening progress in sanctification and holiness; Christ understandeth well the fundamental Laws of the higher City, the new Jerusalem; the frame of the government of that kingdom, is that none be received as free Citizens of Glory, but such as have served Apprentices, Minors, little children,