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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
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3. Estimation produceth love, even the love of Christ; and love is a great Favourite, and is §3much at Court, and dwelleth constantly with the King; to be much with Christ, especially in secret, late and early, and to give much time to converse with Christ, speaketh much love▪ ⟨p. 296⟩and the love of Christ is of the same bigness and quantity with Grace, for Grace and Love keep proportion one with another.
3. Estimation produceth love, even the love of Christ; and love is a great Favourite, and is §3much at Court, and dwelleth constantly with the King; to be much with Christ, especially in secret, late and early, and to give much time to converse with Christ, speaketh much love▪ ⟨p. 296⟩and the love of Christ is of the same bignesse and quantity with Grace, for Grace and Love keep proportion one with another.
4. He who duly esteemeth Christ, is a §4noble bidder, and so a noble and liberal buyer, he outbiddeth Esau. What is pottage to Christ? He overbiddeth Judas: What is silver to Christ?1 Yea, [Greek or Hebrew], all things is the greatest count can be cast up; for it includeth all prices, all sums, it taketh in heaven, as its a created thing: Then, all things, the vast and huge Globe and Circle of the capacious world, and all excellencies within its bosom or belly; nations, all nations; Angels, all Angels; Gold, all Gold; Jewels, all Jewels: Honour and delights, all honour, all delights, and every all beside, lieth before Christ, as feathers, dung, shadows, nothing: To wash a sinner, is the eminency of love, and the highest esteem of him; But, O what a mercy, that Christ should defile his precious, sinless, Royal, and Princely blood, by dipping in such a loathsome, foul, and deformed creature as a sinner is,