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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.
7. Prayer is a Heavenly violence to God, expressed in divers powerful expressions,1 as, 1. Isa. 62.6, 7. The faithful watchmen pray and cry to God so hard, that they give the Lord no rest, no silence, while he establish Jerusalem. 2. Praying is a sort of striving with the Lord, Rom. 15.30. I beseech you, — strive with me, in prayers to God for me. 3. Jacob by prayer wrestled with the Lord; and the Lord, as if he had been straitened, saith, Gen. 32. [Greek or Hebrew] Send me away, dismiss me. And Jacob said, I will not dismiss thee till thou bless me: Which is well expounded by Hosea, chap. 12.4. Jacob had a Princely power over the Angel, and prevailed, he wept, and made supplication to him, [Greek or Hebrew] Is a Prince, or as many render it, Rectus fuit cum Deo, or, Directus fuit, vel prosperum successum habuit, Which may note either a Princedom in prayer over God, which is the true reason of the name Israel; or as others think, he stood right up, and his prayer did not bow nor was broken, when a Temptation lay on him as heavy as a ⟨p. 309⟩Millstone, even when the Lord said he would depart from him, yet he prevailed under that weight: So, Exod. 32.10. When Moses was praying for the people: The Lord said to Moses, Let me alone, that I may destroy them. The Chaldee translate it,2 Leave off thy prayer before me. All which tendeth to this, That Prayer is a Prince, and a mighty wrestling prevailing King, that hath strong bones, and strong arms to be victorious with God. We know the Parable of the Widow, Luke 18. Who by importunity obtained of the unjust Judge, that he should avenge her of her Adversary. The scope of which Parable is, that prayers without fainting, putteth such a labour and a trouble upon God, that he must hear and answer the desires of his Children: So doth the Lord resemble himself to a master of a Family gone to bed with his Children, who yet being wearied by the knocking of his Neighbour, cannot choose but rise in the night, and lend him bread to strangers come to his house.