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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.
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. The dust and stones of Zion, are not like the earth; and the mules of the holy grave, as Papists fondly dream, and are but earth; but because the Lord Christ dwelleth there, therefore are they desirable. The people carried their old harps ⟨p. 285⟩to Babylon with them, and Josephs bones must be carried out of Egypt to Canaan: Why Canaan was Christs land, his dwelling: Why, but we are to love the ground that Christs feet treadeth on. This I say not, that I judge it holy earth, that is Popish superstition; but that such is Christs excellency, that any thing that hath the poorest relation to him, is desirable for him. 2. A poor woman, Luke 7.§2 sought no more of him, but to wash the feet of Christ, and kiss them: Another woman, Matth. 9.21. If I may but touch the border of his garment, I shall be whole. Mary Magdalen sought but to have her arms filled with his dead body, Joh. 20.15. She saith, weeping, to the Gardiner, as she supposed; Sir, if thou hast born him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away. To Joseph of Arimathea, his bloody winding sheet, and his dead, and ho•ed, and torn body in his arms, are sweet. Christs Clay is Silver, and his Brass Gold. 3. Christs •harpest rebukes are sweet oil; the wounds §3•nd the holes that the sweet Mediator maketh […] the soul, when he smiteth with the rod of his outh, are with child of comforts, he rebuked ot the Serpent, as not minding salvation to Saan, but rebuked Eve, intending the promised od for her. O what sweetness of love is that pression?