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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.
Now for the ingredients of Faith: 1. There be in us,1 2 Cor. 10.5. [Greek or Hebrew] Great Forts raised against the light of Faith. These natural discourses in the mind, that are great works and heights, strong holds builded against Christ. The prime faculty reason, the discursive power [Greek or Hebrew] that thinketh she hath wit enough against Christ, and to keep the man out of all danger of eternal salvation, over toppeth and out-groweth all Gospel-truths, Christ must over-power carnal, fate, rank, and heady soldiers, called thoughts, every thought, [Greek or Hebrew] and so kill some that will not be taken, and led captive other thoughts to the obedience of Faith. Reason is a predominant bone in it self: The carnal mind neither will, no• can keep rank as an obedient soldier, under the Law of God, Rom. 8.7. Its much for fine, silken, and golden reason to say to Christ, Lord, Prov, 30.2. There's more of a beast in me, then of a ⟨p. 323⟩man, I have not the understanding of a man. The learned, the schoolmen seldom believe; except grey haired wit turn a child, and go to school again to learn from Christ the new art of believing; for there was never an act of unbelief in any, but it grew out of this proud and rank stalk of a lofty wit; Therefore Christ breaks out a new window in the soul, and brings in a new sun, that flesh and blood never saw, nor heard of before, Mat. 16.17. 2. Faith hath low and creeping affections to the creature; But when the affections are big with child of the creature, as, 1. They are strained and swelled in their acts, Faith is no faith but a delusion, the rich man speaketh with all his heart, and with good will of his full barns, and its clear, he had neither Faith nor Hope toward eternity, Luke 12. v. 19.20. For every word being (as we say) of the length of a cubit, a foot and a half, Luke 12.18