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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.
The reason is, suffering is a loss of being, and wellbeing: These who by doing give away their evil being, for Christ, and crucify their lusts for him, are dear to him: but such as die for Christ, they give away both being, and wellbeing. Moses, & Paul, who in a manner were content to go to hell, with believing that Gods glory in saving the people of God was to be preferred to their eternal being, and well-being, behoved to have great Faith. 3. The Faith,1 that is weak, in regard of intension of degrees, may be a great faith in regard of extension: the Children of God, whose life is the walk of Faith, 2 Cor. 5.7. May have but a small measure of Faith: Yet its a constant and well breathed Faith, good at the long race, that carrieth a soul through: In, 1. His natural capacity ⟨p. 379⟩to believe God will feed him: And, 2. In his civill relations, as a father, son, servant, magistrate. 3. In his spiritual condition, in the duties of the first table; in all which capacities we are to walk by Faith. Yea to eat, drink, sleep, to laugh, to weep, as concerning the ordering of all these Heaven-ward by Faith. All the Saints that go to Heaven believing, and ordering all these conditions by Faith, have not always a Faith, as great as Abraham, as Moses. Weak legs carry some through the earth many thousand miles; A sorry and small vessel in comparison of others, may sail about the Globe of the whole earth. The wings of a Sparrow or a Dove can carry these little birds, through as much Sea and Land, as the wings of an Eagle doth carry the Eagle. 2But ere I go from this point, I crave leave to add somewhat of the least and smallest measure of Faith. 2. Of the condition of the child of God under it. Touching the former, I only say, There is a degree of fire, and a coal so small, that less cannot be, the thing remaining, Fire having the nature, essence, and properties of fire. And when any is in a deliquium or swoon, the man hath life, but it is kept in narrow bounds, there is breathing only. 2. Some vital heat. 3. Some internal motion in the heart and vital and animal spirits, but no more to prove life almost then the man is a dead corps, yet somewhat there is to difference him from dead clay: For friends will