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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.
Its not then good Physic for many exercised in conscience, especially after their first conversion, to apply only the honey and sweetness of consolations of the Gospel, as if there were not any need of humiliation and sorrow for sin: Yet it is to be cleared,1 that 1. Sorrow for sin is no satisfaction for sin; for the pride of merit is crafty, and can creep in at a small hole. We think there is no repentance where there be no tears, & God of purpose withholdeth tears, as knowing when water goes out, wind cometh in. 2. They are tenderly to be bound up, and comforted, in whom sin riseth up with a witness. O what pity, and humble on-looking should be here? For a hell of pain in the body is nothing, wheels, racks, whips, hot irons, breaking of bones is nothing; but half a hell in the spirit, is a whole hell. The upper hell, the grave, to Hezekiah is like to swallow him up, when dipped in the lower hell, and covered with the apprehension of wrath. O sweet Jesus! what a mercy that thou swallowed up all hells to believers, and calmed the sea of hell.
Its not then good Physick for many exercised in conscience, especially after their first conversion, to apply only the honey and sweetnesse of consolations of the Gospel, as if there were not any need of humiliation and sorrow for sin: Yet it is to be cleared,1 that 1. Sorrow for sin is no satisfaction for sin; for the pride of merit is crafty, and can creep in at a smal hole. We think there is no repentance where there be no tears, & God of purpose withholdeth tears, as knowing when water goes out, wind cometh in. 2. They are tenderly to be bound up, and comforted, in whom sin riseth up with a witnesse. O what pity, and humble on-looking should be here? For a hell of pain in the body is nothing, wheels, racks, whips, hot irons, breaking of bones is nothing; but half a hell in the spirit, is a whole hell. The upper hell, the grave, to Ezekiah is like to swallow him up, when dipped in the lower hell, and covered with the apprehension of wrath. O sweet Jesus! what a mercy that thou swallowed up all hels to believers, and calmed the sea of hell.
- 1How we are to-sorrow for pardoned sins.