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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.
Use 3. If the Lords word create the being of things,1 then are we to conceive of him as of an Independent Sovereign; we forget this, and worship a Dependent God: If I suffer the people to go to worship at Jerusalem (saith ⟨p. 430⟩Jeroboam) I shall lose both life and Kingdom; God had promised the contrary to establish him and his Kingdom, so he would do what is right in the sight of the Lord, 1 Kin. 11.37, 38. But he believed that God in the fulfilling of his promise must depend upon the Calves set up at Dan and Bethel: So the Jews will have God in the preserving of their Kingdom and place, Joh. 11.48. to depend upon the sinful murdering of the Lord of Glory; yea, we imagine that God cannot carry on the work of Reformation, except we comply with some sort of Antichristian Prelate: The King thinketh he cannot be a Monarch except he have a Prerogative to play the Tyrant, and his Throne must fall, except the Antichrist and blood, and unlawful peace with the bloody Irish murderers, and destroying of the Lords Redeemed flock in both Kingdoms, be the bloody Pillars of his Throne and Royal power: So God cannot save us, if France, Denmark, Spain and Ireland come against these Kingdoms; we are so wasted, except we make a Peace dishonourable to Jesus Christ and his prerogative Royal; all this is to place God in a state of Dependency, we are too wickedly careful how God shall acquit himself in his office of Governing the world; ere you or I were born, the Lord governed the world, and his Church without a miscarry (the Churches Heaven cannot be marred in Christs hand) and when we are rotten in the dust, he ⟨p. 431⟩shall carry on all in righteousness and wisdom, but we take it ill, if we cannot have a providence as fair and eye-sweet, as white Paper, though indeed there be not one spot in Gods ways; so Martha, Joh. 11.21. Lord if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. But Christ-God in preserving lives, dependeth not on his own bodily presence here or there: Another complaineth God hath forgotten me, he is not my God. Why? Because I walk in darkness & have no light, nor any sense of his love. It is the black and dead hour of mid-night with me. So the Church argueth,