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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.
There is no rule without God to regulate him, or yet to straighten him in his walking; we are not to misplace God, for though the God of Hosts hath purposed to stain [Greek or Hebrew] Lechallel, to cast a blot on, and profane the pride of all glory, Isa. 23.9. and suffer Parliaments, Assemblies, Armies, Counsels of War, State-men, the Godly, the Princes, Judges, Pastors, men of Wisdom, Learning, Eloquence, parts, to miscarry in this great service against Babylon: it is to cry down the creatures garland, and the rose of their eminency, that when all spots of Sacrilege and Idol-confidence in men are washed off the work, the Lord only may be exalted. It is our wisdom to suffer God to be ⟨p. 432⟩wise for us: yea, Antinomians will have Christ no independent Redeemer, but to them his grace shall not be perfect in pardoning, except all sin in root and branch be removed from the justified, and they made as sinless as Adam before his fall, and the Elect Angels: Yea, how many connections of Providence do we spin and twist out of our own head? As how happy had we been, if the King had remained with the Parl. to countenance it? Yea, but rather how unhappy, for our Reformation had been as an untimely birth, if so it had been: How blessed should I have been saith another, if I had been rich and learned? Yea, rather you should have dishonoured God in that condition. The Catholic and mother sin is, God must be dependent, we independent.
There is no rule without God to regulate him, or yet to straighten him in his walking; we are not to misplace God, for though the God of Hosts hath purposed to stain 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Lechallel, to cast a blot on, and prophane the pride of all glory, Isa. 23.9. and suffer Parliaments, Assemblies, Armies, Counsels of War, Statse-men, the Godly, the Princes, Judges, Pastors, men of Wisdom, Learning, Eloquence, parts, to miscarry in this great service against Babylon: it is to cry down the creatures garland, and the rose of their eminency, that when all spots of Sacriledge and Idol-confidence in men are washed off the work, the Lord only may be exalted. It is our wisdom to suffer God to be ⟨p. 432⟩