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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.
The like was the case of the Church when CHRIST departed, she died for sorrow, the soul departed from the soul, because her Lord and beloved was gone: Yet even that death, that soul-hell in the want of Christ was a Heaven, it was a sweet and comfortable ⟨p. 290⟩season, then hath she a communion with him, in a most heavenly manner. 1. Asking at the watchmen for him. 2. In binding sad charges on the Daughters of Jerusalem, to commend her to God by prayer. 3. Then was she sick of Love for him. 4. Then fell she out in that large Love rapture, in a most heavenly praise of him, in all his virtues, My well-beloved is white and ruddy, and the chief amongst ten thousand, &c. Here then the Hell, that Christ throweth the Saints in, in their Desertions, is their heaven. 6. The meanest and lowest relation with Christ, §6is honour: John Baptist placeth an honour, in unloosing the Latchets of his shoes, and thinketh to bear his shoes is more honour then he deserveth, Joh. 1.27. David a great Prophet appointed to be a King: O if I might be so near the Lord, as to be a door-keeper in his house, Ps. 84.10. He putteth a happiness on the Sparrow, and the Swallow, that may build their nests beside the Lords Altar: Then the fragments and crumbs that his dogs eateth, must be the dainties of heaven,1 and Christs water the wine of heaven. Now if any the lowest thing of Christ, the Morsel of his dogs be desirable; how sweet must himself be, if the parings of his bread be sweet? What must the great loaf Christ himself be? Christ himself is so taking a Lover, he hath a face that would ravish love out of Devils, so they had Grace to see his beauty; he could lead captive all hearts in hell, with ⟨p. 291⟩the loveliness of his countenance, which is white and ruddy, and pleasant as Lebanon, if they had eyes to behold him. O he himself is an unknown Lover; he hath neither brim nor bottom, his Gospel is the unsearchable riches of Christ; his Gospel is but a creature; How unsearchable must he himself be? The wise man,