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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
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And then he showed me, must be this in good sense, He, He the increated King himself made me, or caused me to enjoy; Messengers carry love-Letters now, ⟨p. 437⟩there's no need of love-Letters between the Lord Jesus, and the Bride the Lambs wife in this condition: certain it is, a draught of such water at the Well-head must be sweetest: Then immediate comforts in a heavy condition must be sweetest also; as in heavy desertions, Word, Ministry, Pastors, Prayer, and Ordinances cannot raise up the Spirit: What doth the Lord else speak in this? No less then that mediation of means is but mediation of means; and Christ is Christ, means in a soul sickness: yea, Apostles, Angels, Watchmen fail:1 But Christ himself with his immediate action faileth not, Cant. 3.1.2.3. vers. 4. Joh. 20.8.9.10.11.12.13.14.15.16.17. Christ himself immediately by himself will do in a moment, that which all means, all Ordinances, all sweatings, all endeavours cannot do: I do not now cry down means, and extol immediate inspirations; the latter I deny not in some cases, but I only compare means and Christ; and is not this an experience of some who are brought to the Margin, and black borders of Hell and despairing, all Creature comforts having failed them, and they having received the Sentence of the second death: yet Christ cometh with an immediate glimpse, like a fire flaught in the air, which letteth the lost and bewildered Traveller in an extreme dark night see a lodging at hand, whereas otherwise he should have fallen in a pit and lost himself? and in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, the Lord having rebuked ⟨p. 438⟩the winds and the stormy Tempests in the soul: there is a calm, and peace, Ps. 31.22. Jonah 2.4. Christ is speedy, and swift as a Roe, his leap is but a stride over a whole mountain at once, over many mountains & hills, Can. 2.8. Especially in his immediats, when he comforts by himself; he then maketh no use of a deputy-Sun to shine, or of borrowed light, the Sun himself riseth with his own immediate salvation, and his own immediate wings;