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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.
1Use 2. It is but little that we can do, let us have Hosts of men, we cannot have the victory: Let man be swift, yet the Race is not to the swift; let him be strong, Yet the battle is not to the strong; let him be wise and learned, Neither is bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, Eccles. 9.11. 1. The word of the Almighty is his deed also, Psal. 33.9. He spake, & it was done, he commanded, and it stood fast; [Greek or Hebrew] For he himself spake, and it was: The Lords word giveth being to things, by the contrary; mens deeds are nothing but words; so the lives, being, and actions of the Kings of Israel and Judah, are called Dibre hajamim, 2words of days: They are the acts and deeds of men living and dying, and compassed with days; for the deeds and acts of men are but words, they live and speak a little on earth and die, their acts are of ⟨p. 429⟩as little worth, and reality as the airing out, and breathing forth of words: The greatest Prince maketh a sound for a time, as one that speaketh words, and then he is gone, and lieth silent in the grave; Solomon did many acts, but they are called words only, 1 Kin. 11.41. And the rest of the acts of Solomon; Hebrew,3 The rest of the words of Solomon, Are written in the Books of the Acts; Hebrew, Of the words of Solomon, 2 Kin. 21.25. And the rest of the words which Amon did, are written in the Book of the words of the days of the Kings of Judah. We use not properly to do, or act words, but to speak words;4 but the holy Language maketh man and all his noble acts but words, and would express that he is a creature of no great action, and can say more, then he can do: Strong and mighty man is but a creature of words, he is a speaking body of clay, and can do but little. We boast much that this, and this we shall do, God hath a lock and a chain of Iron on all the creatures; Armies are not to be feared, the Lord smites the horse and the rider, & maketh war to cease unto the end of the earth, he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the Chariot in the fire,