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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.
its then nothing, but a non-repugnancy, to hear and obey God in these particulars: §1As, 1. Omnipotency of strong grace, can speak to sin, which none can do, but God, Ezek. 16.6. I said to thee, when thou wast in thy blood, live: This Mandate of omnipotent grace is spoken to Jerusalem, as hardened, and cold dead in sin, Eph. 5, 14. Wherefore he saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light: This is a Commandment of omnipotency, given out of sinful rebellion: If Omnipotence say, See ye blind: hear, ye deaf: Grace is a King over sin, and omnipotency a mighty Conqueror: Rebellion cannot stand before the grace of God, could we resign Rebellious and dead hearts to God, he should change them, though we be most unable to master them: §22. Mere-nothing is a servant to omnipotency: he sendeth his mandate, or statute of heaven, to mere-nothing, and Darkness, as the Sergeant and Pursuivant of GOD, must send out Light, by ⟨p. 427⟩virtue of a creating Mandate, 2 Cor. 4.6. 3. Every creature is under the awe of Omnipotency, and §3dare not without (as it were) a written and signed Ordinance and Statute of the Almighty, exercise their natural operations: As the Lord sendeth an awful mandate to the Sea, and God saith, Do not ebb and flow: and the sea is dried up at his rebuke, Psal. 77.16. The waters saw thee, O God, the Waters saw thee, they were afraid: So saith he: Winds, blow not: Seas, rage not: fire, burn not: Lyons, devour not: Sun, move not: Clouds, rain not: Devils, hurt not: Waters, overwhelm not: Sword, destroy not: and they all obey. 4. There is a power obediential, in creatures to be instruments that can be elevated above,§4 and contrary to their nature to miracles, as clay to be a plaster to blind eyes to make them see, whereas clay can put out seeing eyes: by this, Iron can swim. Peter walk in the Sea; yea, devils & men crossing Gods Moral will, fulfil his eternal Counsel; according to that,