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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.
Faith would forbid us to wear out the threads of this immortal spirit, such as are love, joy, fear, sorrow, upon pieces of corruptible clay? Alas, is it Faiths light that setteth men a work, to make the soul a golden-needle, and the precious powers and affections thereof, threads of silver to sow together pieces of sackcloth, and old rotten rags? What better, I pray you, is the finest of the web in the whole system of creation? Certainly the heavens must be a thread of better wool then the clay-earth, yet if you should break your immortal spirit, and bend all the acts to the highest extent of your affections, to conquer thousands of Acres of ground in the Heavens, and entitle your soul to that inheritance, as to your only patrimony without Christ; ⟨p. 326⟩Faiths day-light should discover to you, that this finest part of that web of Creation, with which you desire to cloth your precious soul, is but base wool and rotten thread, and though beautiful and well dyed to the eye; yet, Psal. 102.26. The heavens, even all of them shall wax old like a garment: And the wisdom of Faith knoweth a shop where there's a more excellent suit of clothes for the soul, 2 Cor. 5.1, 2. And a more precious piece of the Heaven to dwell in, even a House which is from Heaven, with which you shall be clothed: When life shall eat up death and mortality.
Faith would forbid us to wear out the threds of this immortall spirit, such as are love, joy, fear, sorrow, upon peeces of corruptible clay? Alas, is it Faiths light that setteth men a work, to make the soul a golden-needle, and the precious powers and affections thereof, threds of silver to sow together peeces of sackcloth, and old rotten rags? What better, I pray you, is the finest of the web in the whole systeme of creation? Certainly the heavens must be a thred of better wool then the clay-earth, yet if you should break your immortal spirit, and bend all the acts to the highest extent of your affections, to conquer thousands of Acres of ground in the Heavens, and intitle your soul to that inheritance, as to your onely patrimonie without Christ; ⟨p. 326⟩Faiths day-light should discover to you, that this finest part of that web of Creation, with which you desire to cloth your precious soul, is but base wool and rotten thred, and though beautifull and well dyed to the eye; yet,