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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.
though their fathers who slew the Lord of glory, be dead: This day Cain is a murderer, Judas a traitor, and shall be so long as GOD shall live, and be GOD: Now without shedding of Christs blood, there is no remission of sins, Heb. 9.22. To be delivered from eternal debt, and entitled to an eternal Kingdom, is a life most desirable, & maketh the sinner to stand in the books of Christ, as the eternally engaged debtor of Grace. Young Heirs, know your blessedness aright: sinners under eternal debt; you laugh, sport, rejoice: and you are firebrands of wrath: you go singing, and shaking, and tinkling your bolts and fetters of black and unmixed vengeance: Alas, how can you sleep? How can you laugh and sing?
though their fathers who slew the Lord of glory, be dead: This day Cain is a murderer, Judas a traitour, and shall be so long as GOD shall live, and be GOD: Now without shedding of Christs blood, there is no remission of sins, Heb. 9.22. To be delivered from eternall debt, and intituled to an eternall Kingdom, is a life most desireable, & maketh the sinner to stand in the books of Christ, as the eternally ingaged debtor of Grace. Young Heirs, know your blessednesse aright: sinners under eternall debt; you laugh, sport, rejoice: and you are firebrands of wrath: you go singing, and shaking, and tinckling your bolts and fetters of black and unmixed vengeance: Alas, how can you sleep? How can you laugh and sing?
Eat the crumbs.] The dogs desire but the least,1 and (to speak so) the refuse of Christ. Doct. The meanest, and worst things of Christ (to speak so) are incomparably to be desired above all things. 1. Any thing of Christ is desirable; but to lay hold on the skirt of a Jew, Zac. 10.23. Because Christ that is with him is good. Yea, the dust of Zion is a thing that the servants of God take pleasure in, Psal. 102.14