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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.
SERM. XXV. Omnipotency hath influence, on, 1. Satan. 2. Diseases. 3. Stark death. 4. Mother-nothing. 5. On all creatures. 6. On sin, to speak to them, p. 424. Obediential power in the creation, what it is, p. 425. Omnipotency is (as it were) a servant to Faith, p. 428. We worship a dependent God, p. 429. We have need of the devil and other temptations for our humiliation, p. 432. Immediate mercies, are the sweetest mercies; cleared, 1. In Christ. 2. Grace. 3. Glory. 4· Comfort. 5. The rarest of Gods works, p. 433. The deceitfulness of our confidence, when God and the creature are joined in one work, p. 442.
SERM. XXV. Omnipotency hath influence, on, 1. Satan. 2. Diseases. 3. Stark death. 4. Mother-nothing. 5. On all creatures. 6. On sin, to speak to them, p. 424. Obedientiall power in the creation, what it is, p. 425. Omnipotency is (as it were) a servant to Faith, p. 428. We worship a dependent God, p. 429. We have need of the devil and other temptations for our humiliation, p. 432. Immediate mercies, are the sweetest mercies; cleared, 1. In Christ. 2. Grace. 3. Glory. 4· Comfort. 5. The rarest of Gods works, p. 433. The deceitfulnesse of our confidence, when God and the creature are joyned in one work, p. 442.
SERM. XXVI. Christ in four relations hath dominion over Devils, p. 446. Satan goeth no where without a Pass, p. 448. ⟨image 17⟩We often sign Satan's conditional Pass, ibid. A renewed will is a renewed man, p. 451. Eight positions concerning the will and affections, ibid. A civill will is not a sanctified will, ibid. The yielding of the soul to God, and to his light, a special note of a renewed will, ibid. Affections sanctified, especially desires, p. 453. The less mixture in the affections, the stronger are their operations, ibid. Mind and affections do reciprocally vitiate one another, p. 454. Spiritual desires, seek natural things, spiritually: Carnal desires seek spiritual things, naturally, p. 455. God submitteth his liberality of Grace, to the measure of a sanctified will, in four considerations, ibid. Our affections in their acts and comprehension, are far below spiritual objects, Christ and Heaven, p. 456. More in Christ and Heaven then our faith can reach in this life, p. 457.