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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.
Here is kissing, and love wrapped about rebuks• so Jer. 3.1. Thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; but see mercy: Yet return to §4me, saith the Lord. 4. His black and sour Cross is sweet and honied with comfort, his dead Body a bundle of myrrh, Cant. 1.13. The smell of which is strong, and fragrant, and sweateth out precious gum rejoicing in tribulations, Rom. 5.3. Count it joy, all joy, when ye fall in divers temptations, Jam. 1.2. The Eagles smell heaven in the cross, and Christ in it, Gal. 6.14. Yea, the refuse and the worst of Christs cross, the shame and the reproaches of Christ, are sweeter and choicer to Moses, then the Treasures, Riches, yea, then the Kingdom of Egypt, and the glory of it, Heb. 11. ver. 26, 27. yea, the shame and blushing on Christs fair face, Heb. 12.2. which he suffered under the Cross, is fairer then Rubies, and Gold, and hath the colour of the Heaven of Heavens. Nebuchadnezzar hath more pain & torment in persecuting, Dan. 4.19. then the three children had in being persecuted: There's pain and fury in active persecution: He was full of fury, and the form of his visage changed; but there is ⟨p. 289⟩joy unspeakable and glorious in passive persecution. Christs sanctified cross droppeth honey, 1 Pet. 1.6. 5. Christs glownings and sad desertions,§5 though to the believer, they be death and hell: yet have much of heaven in them: So