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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
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4. Yet are the Saints thus prepared and humbled, but not converted Materially, Physically, 1or as it were passively nearer Christ, and in relation to Gods Eternal Election of Grace, who maketh this a step relative to his Eternal love, they are under the reach of Christs love, and at the Elbow of the right arm of the Father, who draweth souls to the son, Joh. 6.44. And in the Gospel-bounds and fields or lists of Free-grace, as the height and rage of a fever, is near a cool ⟨p. 316⟩and a return to health, and yet most contrary to health, and the utmost flowing of the sea, when its at the remotest score of the coast, is a disposition to an ebbing, though most contrary to a low ebb; so are the humbled souls, who have some lame and maimed estimative power of light, to put half a price on Christ, and finds apprehended sin, the mouth, throat, and out entry of hell in that case most contrary to Christ. A fish within that circle of the water that the net casteth, is no less living in its own element of water, then if it were in the bosom of the Ocean, some hundred miles distant from fisher or net, yet is it in a near disposition to be catched.
4. Yet are the Saints thus prepared and humbled, but not converted Materially, Physically, 1or as it were passively nearer Christ, and in relation to Gods Eternall Election of Grace, who maketh this a step relative to his Eternall love, they are under the reach of Christs love, and at the Elbow of the right arm of the Father, who draweth souls to the son, Joh. 6.44. And in the Gospel-bounds and fields or lists of Free-grace, as the height and rage of a feaver, is near a cool ⟨p. 316⟩and a return to health, and yet most contrary to health, and the utmost flowing of the sea, when its at the remotest score of the coast, is a disposition to an ebbing, though most contrary to a low ebbe; so are the humbled souls, who have some lame and mained estimative power of light, to put half a price on Christ, and finds apprehended sin, the mouth, throat, and out entry of hell in that case most contrary to Christ. A fish within that circle of the water that the net casteth, is no lesse living in its own element of water, then if it were in the bosome of the Ocean, some hundreth miles distant from fisher or net, yet is it in a near disposition to be catched.