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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.
Dogs eat the crumbs.] Here be degrees of persons, and things, in our Fathers house: Children, and dogs: yet dogs which the Lord of the house owneth: here is a high table, and bread: and a by-board, or an after-table, and crumbs for dogs: here be persons of honour, Kings sons clothed in Scarlet, and sitting with the King at dinner, when his Spikenard sendeth ⟨p. 297⟩forth a smell; and here be some under the table, at the feet of Christ, waiting to receive the little drops of the great honey-comb of rich grace, that falleth from him: Follow Christ, and grace shall fall from him; his steps drop fatness, especially in his Palace, 1 Joh. 2.12.13.14. There be in our Lords house little children, babes; there be in it also experienced ancient Fathers (for Grace hath grey hairs for wisdom, not for weakness:) there be strong men also: Christ was once a little stone, but he grew a great mountain that filled the whole earth: yea, and the heaven too: Christ is a growing child: In Christs lower firmament, there be stars of the first and second magnitude: and in his house, vessels of great, and of small quantity, cups and flagons, Isa. 22.24. yet all are fastened upon the Golden-nail, Jesus Christ. 2. All are in the way, the plants all growing, but one is a grain of mustard seed, and a rose not broken out to the flower, and another is a great tree: its morning, and but the glimmering of the rays of the day-star in one, and its high Sun, perfect day, near the noon-day with another: Strong father Abraham, mighty in believing, was once a babe on the breasts, that could neither creep, nor stand, nor walk. The love of Christ in its first rise, is a drop of dew that came out of the womb of the morning, the mother in one night brought forth an host, an innumerable millions of such babes, and covered the ⟨p. 298⟩face of the earth with them. But this drop of dew groweth to a Sea that swelleth up above hell and the grave, Cant. 8.6, 7. It is more then all the floods and seas of the earth, and floateth up to the Heaven of Heavens, and up, and in, it must be upon Christ,