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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.
they still are in bondage, and weep upon him, v. 16. The Lords soul was grieved, Heb. Cut short for the misery of Israel, so Jer. 31. Two evils befall Ephraim, one is, Gods correcting hand; another is, bemoaning and sorrow for sin, both are trials, but how doth God express himself toward Ephraim? ⟨p. 391⟩v. 20. Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a son of consolations? so the Hebrew, Is he my dainty child? for since I spake against him I do earnestly remember him still, therefore my bowels are troubled for him: Observe the income of Gods consolations, after sad and heavy trials, Isa. 54.11. O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and thy foundation with Sapphires, Isa. 40.1. Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people saith our God: 2. Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is accomplished: There is a violence of heavenly passion in Christs love, it will come out at length; tempted ones wait on, you shall see Christ as Christ in the end of the day; Christ is well worthy a days weeping, and a days waiting on; compassion strangled and enclosed in Christ must break out, it easeth Christs mind that his bowels of mercy findeth a vent; pity kept within Gods bowels (to speak so) paineth him, it must come out, Hos. 11.8. Mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together. O how rude and inhumane hath sin made our nature! His love who died for us, brake Heaven and rent the two sides of the Firmament (as it were) asunder; our Lord descended, and was made a man in all things like us, except sin. But O the first, nay, the doubled summons of Christs love are not obeyed. Love crieth, we are deaf; Christs love hunteth no other prey but our heart, and he cannot have it. After Christ hath tempted a soul, he must put it ⟨p. 392⟩in his heart; its an ease and comfort to Christ, to ease and comfort the tempted: he is now trying Britain, and giving his Bride a cup of blood and tears to drink; But who knows what bowels, what turnings of heart, what motions of compassion are in the man Christ now in Heaven? Those who shall live to see the Lord take his Bride in his arms and embrace her after these many temptations, that now your eyes seeth, shall subscribe to the truth of this, and those who find Christs love-embracements, after Desertions know this.