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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.
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, Rev. 1.5.
4. He who duely esteemeth Christ, is a §4noble bidder, and so a noble and liberall buyer, he outbiddeth Esau. What is pottage to Christ? He overbiddeth Iudas: What is silver to Christ?1 Yea, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, all things is the greatest count can be cast up; for it includeth all prices, all summes, it taketh in heaven, as its a created thing: Then, all things, the vast and huge Globle and Cirle of the capacious world, and all excellencies within its bosome 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 eminencie of love, and the highest esteem of him; But, O what a mercy, that Christ should defile his precious, sinlesse, Royall, and Princely blood, by dipping in such a loathsome, foul, and deformed creature as a sinner is, Rev. 1.5.