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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.
Use. We are to be careful of the stock, not to hurt or wast the stock of Grace, he who is spending on his stock, ere it be long shall have nothing; cast not water upon your own coal to quench the spirit or to grieve it. See what grows out of your stock? What income and crop of the fruits of the spirit shall return to Christ? The Lord demandeth of every child of God, what, and where is the stock, and where is the rent of Heaven? It is the virtue of the Merchant to increase the stock, and in all losses to strive to keep it whole. There is a wasting of the habit of Grace, which is a dangerous thing, Eph. 4.30. There is a •adding of the spirit, and a rubbing off of some letters or Characters ⟨p. 387⟩of the broad Seal of the spirit which is forbidden; even as break some spokes or Axe-tree of the wheels of a great work, and the mill or the horologue is at stand and can work nothing; beware that no wards of the Conscience be broken, for fear that the key of David that openeth the heart, fit them not, or suit not with the lock: David brake a ward and a sprint of the new heart by his Adultery and bloodshed, and therefore no Artificer but one only in Heaven, could put the lock in frame again, Psa. 51.10. The new creation is like a curious horologe made of Crystal glass, it must be warily and tenderly handled; the frame of the workmanship of the holy Ghost dwelling in us, 2 Tim. 1.14. must be kept from the least craze or throw in all the wheels and turnings thereof, yea the least mote must not rest on it. Quest. What must be done to keep in good temper the new Creation? Ans. 1. Beware to go to bed and sleep with a bone broken or disjointed in the inner man: Its good to be disquieted in spirit, as if there were an aching in the bones, after some g••at sin not repented nor bewailed: when Peter by denying his Lord, had rotted a bone or a joint of the new man in himself, he rested not well that night, he went out and wept bitterly, Mat. 26.57. Jeremiah made a rash and passionate vow to speak no more in the name of the Lord; but he could not sleep with that coal of fire in his bones,