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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.
And I will restore thy Judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning; afterward thou shalt be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city: 27. Zion shall be redeemed with judgement, and her converts with righteousness: 2. A rough dispensation of Christ cannot abide long rough to the Saints,1 he must answer and ease the pain of the woman's broken spirit; its a nights pain to Christ to cause the tears run down the cheeks of his Church all the night, he cannot but bring a day light of joy before the Suns ordinary time to rise, Ps. 30.5. Christ smiteth and ⟨p. 396⟩weepeth for compassion both at once: Tender mercy in Christ moveth as much, if not more within then without: The mothers bowels are as much on work within, when the child is but upon her breasts, and he is not capable to know a mother, as a mother, and love as love as ever; when the deserted is but new and hot come out of the second womb, and a babe born over again, yet in a spiritual Fever, he is as much as ever in the bowels of Christ, though he be not in that case capable of the sense and actual apprehension of Christ as Christ, and of the sense of Christs love as his love, Jer. 31.20. Since the time that I sufficiently talked with him in correcting him, or since the time of my sufficiency of speaking against him, in remembering him, I do remember him. I spake much in mine anger against him, and half against my will; I did chide him and scourge him, but my moved bowels, the stirrings of a compassionating heart, did contradict (in a manner) my rough correcting: my heart came out of me with every rough word, and stroke: The Sun and nature worketh long and many years under earth, in the generation of Gold and Silver ere we see gold and silver: God and his servant nature did us a pleasure & a great favour in that kind, in secret, down in the bowels of the earth, to make unseen and concealed provision for our purses, this secret love to us acted down in the dark is no love to us, while we find it, and see it, yet is nature in ⟨p. 397⟩a mystery under a veil, sweating under earth to bring forth for us Metals, Trees, Herbs, Flowers, corn for our service, but we see no harvest at that time: Christs bowels are sweating and as much labouring in child-birth pain of compassion and love, and tender mercy toward us when we are in an Ague, and a fit of desertion, as at any time;