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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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Unless thy Law had been my delight, I should have perished in mine affliction, ver. 81. My soul fainteth for thy Salvation: (But) I hope in thy word, And there's a reciprocation of Actions here; the word acteth upon the soul again, Psal. 119.50. This is my comfort in my affliction, for thy word hath quickened me. A dead Faith is like a dead hand, a living hand may lay hold on a dead hand: but there's no reciprocation of actions here, the dead hand cannot lay hold on the living hand: so the living wife may kiss, and embrace the dead husband, but there can come no reciprocal act of life from the dead husband to her, nor can he kiss and embrace her: The promise may act upon the natural spirit, to move and affect him, but he can put forth no vital act upon the promise to embrace it, or lay hold upon the promise: But the promise acteth upon the Believer to quicken him, and he again putteth forth an act of life to embrace the promise, and putteth forth on it, some act of vital heat, to adhere & cleave to, and with warmness of heart to love it; and here the case is as when the living hand layeth hold on the living hand, they warm one another mutually, according to that which Paul saith, Phil. 3.12. But I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus: Here be two living ⟨p. 337⟩things, Christ, and believing Paul acting mutually one upon another, there's a heart and a life upon each side.
Vnlesse thy Law had been my delight, I should have perished in mine affliction, ver. 81. My soul fainteth for thy Salvation: (But) I hope in thy word, And there's a reciprocation of Actions here; the word acteth upon the soul again, Psal. 119.50. This is my comfort in my affliction, for thy word hath quickned mee. A dead Faith is like a dead hand, a living hand may lay hold on a dead hand: but there's no reciprocation of actions here, the dead hand cannot lay hold on the living hand: so the living wife may kisse, and embrace the dead husband, but there can come no reciprocall act of life from the dead husband to her, nor can he kisse and embrace her: The promise may act upon the naturall spirit, to move and affect him, but he can put forth no vitall act upon the promise to embrace it, or lay hold upon the promise: But the promise acteth upon the Believer to quicken him, and he again putteth forth an act of life to embrace the promise, and putteth forth on it, some act of vitall heat, to adhere & cleave to, and with warmnesse of heart to love it; and here the case is as when the living hand layeth hold on the living hand, they warm one another mutually, according to that which Paul saith,