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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
Sermon 1: The Trial and Triumph of Faith.Sermon 1: The Triall and Triumph of Faith.
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.
This Text being with child of Free-Grace, holdeth forth to us a Miracle, of note; and because Christ is in the work, in an eminent manner, and there is here also much of Christs new creation, and a floor ⟨p. 2⟩planted and watered by Christs own hand, a strong faith in a tried woman, it requireth the bending of our heart to attention: for to any seeking Jesus Christ, this Text crieth, Come and see. 1The words for their scope, drive at the wakening of believers, in Praying (when an answer is not given at the first) to a fixed and resolved lying, and dying at Christs door, by continuing in Prayer, while the King come out and open, and answer the desire of the hungry and poor. 2. For the subject, they are a History of a rare Miracle, wrought by Christ, in casting forth a Devil out of the Daughter of a Woman of Canaan; and for Christ to throw the Devil out of a Canaanite, was very like the white Banner of Christs Love displayed to the Nations, and the Kings Royal Standard set up to gather in the Heathen under his colours. The parts of the Miracle are,
THis Text being with childe of Free-Grace, holdeth forth to us a Miracle, of note; and because Christ is in the work, in an eminent manner, and there is here also much of Christs new creation, and a floor ⟨p. 2⟩planted and watered by Christs own hand, a strong faith in a tryed woman, it requireth the bending of our heart to attention: for to any seeking Iesus Christ, this Text cryeth, Come and see. 1The words for their scope, drive at the wakening of beleevers, in Praying (when an answer is not given at the first) to a fixed and resolved lying, and dying at Christs door, by continuing in Prayer, while the King come out and open, and answer the desire of the hungry and poor. 2. For the subject, they are a History of a rare Miracle, wrought by Christ, in casting forth a Devil out of the Daughter of a Woman of Canaan; and for Christ to throw the Devill out of a Canaanite, was very like the white Banner of Christs Love displayed to the Nations, and the Kings Royall Standard set up to gather in the Heathen under his colours. The parts of the Miracle are,