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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.
10. To wait in patience for God all the day long,1 is an Argument of great Faith, Isa. 28.16. He that believeth shall not make hast; he shall not be confounded with shame (so the 70. translateth it, and Paul after them, Rom. 9.33.) As those that fleeth from the enemy out of hastiness, procured by base fear, which is a shame: I dare not say that the 70. readeth [Greek or Hebrew] festinet instead of [Greek or Hebrew] confundatur: but it proveth believing & a valorous keeping the field without flying, & so continued waiting on God, to be of kin to believing; and the longer the thread of hope be, though it were seventy years long, as Hab. 2.1.2. or though it were as long as a cable going between the earth and the heaven, up within the veil, Heb. 6.19. the stronger the faith must be; unbelief not being chained to Christ leapeth over board at first, as the wicked King said in the ••st of unbelief, 2 King. 6.33. What should I wait any longer on the Lord? Faith is a grace for win•er to give God leisure to bring Summer in his own season; the reasons of our weakness be two. […]. We see Israel & their dough on their shoulders wearied and tired, lately come out of the […]-Furnace, wandering without one foot of heritage, forty years in the wilderness, and four hundred years in Egypt, Act. 7.6. This ••keth like poverty, to believe the other my••ery in the other side or Page of Providence, […] Glory of dividing the Red-Sea, and of ⟨p. 368⟩giving seven mighty Nations to his people, and their buildings, lands, vineyards, Gardens, is a strong Faith. 2. The furnace is a thing void of reason and art, and so knoweth little, that by it the Goldsmith maketh an excellent and comely vessel of Gold: Its great Faith to believe, that God by crooked instruments, and fire and sword shall refine a Church and erect a glorious building, and these Malignant instruments are as ignorant of the Art of divine Providence, as coals and fuel are of the Art and intention of the Gold-Smith,