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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.
so what ever partaketh of being, is the adequate and consummate effect of omnipotency, I mean being either possible or actual, and so the motions of Angels from place to place, and of Devils must be under a chain of Omnipotency, as all other things, motions, and actions of the creature are: Let Satan go whether he please, Christ traceth him. 2. Christ hath the relation of a Judge to Satan, §2and so he is tied in an invisible chain of Justice: and as malefactors that are permitted to go abroad, but always with attendance, so do Devils trail about with them everlasting chains of blackness of darkness Jud. •. 6. Whether so ever the Devil go, Christ hath a keeper at his back. 3. Christ hath a relation of a conqueror §3to Satan, and Satan is his taken Captive, Col. 2.15. He cannot be loosed from under Christ, either by ransom, or change of prisoner with prisoner. 4. Christ as the heir of all things, beareth up all by his mighty word, Heb. 1.2, 3. And is he in whom all things consist, Col. 1.17. And so by reason that the world by a new gift of Redemption, is subjected to Jesus Christ, There is a special and particular Providence of Christ upon Satan: it concerneth the Redeemed not a little, that Christ keep a strong and watchful guard upon the black camp out of which he hath Redeemed us, and that the seven eyes that are before ⟨p. 447⟩the Throne take special notice of Hell, who come in, and come out, for there is deep counsel there against us: In this consideration Christ numbers all the footsteps of Devils: Satan hath not a general warrant to tempt the Saints, but to every new act against Job, chap. 1.12. and Job 2, 6. against Peter, ere he can put him upon one single blast, to cast him but once through his sieve,