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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.
Be it unto thee as thou wilt] Christ cannot long dissemble (to speak so) and keep up his love; he tried this woman hardly;1 now he praiseth her in her face; Great is thy faith, and granteth her desire to the full; if there was such a brotherly and natural compassion in Joseph, Gen. 43.30. Josephs bowels yearned they were hot, and Gen. 45.1. Joseph could not refrain himself, Vatablus noteth that the Hebrew word is, He could not do violence to himself; His love was like a hot Furnace, and it was like to make a captive of him, and to overcome him; now the man Christ hath the same heart, and bowels of a man, and I conceive as Christ was a man void of sin so the acts of natural virtues, as to pity the afflicted were stronger in him then in us,2 sin blunteth natural faculties, especially such as inclineth to acts laudable and good, such as are love, compassion to the miserable, and sin boweth, or rather breaketh natural acts that are indifferent in their nature, and farther removed from mortality, and maketh them intense above nature, sin being a violent thing, so in natural men, there is little power in carnal reason over acts of generation, hunger, thirst, sleep, and such as have their rise from the ⟨p. 390⟩sensitive soul: Christ having strength of sinless reason natural far above, Adam was strong in the acts of the former kind, and moderate in the other; especially being a high Priest that marcheth us in natural passions, Heb. 4.15. Even in a Sympathy, and having these same passions that we have, He wept over Jerusalem, Luk. 19. When they were crying Hosanna to him; and occasion of joy furnished to him, yet ver. 41.42 He wept over the City and spake words of compassion; but broken and imprisoned with sighing and sorrow: O if thou knew, even thou, &c. Now what compassion must be in him, when his affection had such an edge? Joseph is nothing to him, he having taken a mans heart to go along with the Saints to heaven, sighing, weeping, mourning, Tempted in all these, as we are, but without sin,