A57982:410
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.
3. It putteth God to great straights, and suffering §3even to the moving of his soul, Jer. 31. When God heareth Ephraim bemoaning himself in Prayer: it putteth God to a sort of pinch and condolency, ver. 20. Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he my pleasant Child? For since I •ake against him, I do earnestly remember him •ill, therefore my bowels are troubled for him. […] Isaac an earthly Father moved, and his heart •ent and torn with the weeping and tears of Esa• his son, so as he must confer some blessing upon him; far more must the bowels of our father infinite in mercy be turned within him, at the weeping and tears of a praying and crying Church.
3. It putteth God to great straights, and suffering §3even to the moving of his soul, Jer. 31. When God heareth Ephraim bemoaning himself in Prayer: it putteth God to a sort of pinch and condolency, ver. 20. Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he my pleasant Childe? For since I •ake against him, I do earnestly remember him •ill, therefore my bowels are troubled for him. 〈…〉 Isaac an earthly Father moved, and his heart •ent and torn with the weeping and tears of Esa• his son, so as he must confer some blessing upon him; far more must the bowels of our father infinite in mercy be turned within him, at the weeping and tears of a praying and crying Church.