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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. Its much for our faith and comfort, that our Mediator is a God of Gods, a God above the God of this world a Prince more mighty then the Prince of the Air, who ruleth in the children of disobedience: Yea, now we have a greater Victory over Satan, then we know: Satan is so totally routed, put off the fields, and Christ so strong, that the weakest of Saints is stronger then the world, & the spirit Satan that dwelleth in the world. Christs strength of faith is stronger then Adams strength of innocency, 1 Joh. 2.13, 14. 1 Joh. 5.5. The weakest measure of saving Grace, is stronger then the highest measure of malice in all hell: When Satan Tempteth you, fear him not, resist him in the Faith: but be watchful, for he hath a Pass from Christ, else he could not come ⟨p. 448⟩so far as the Court of Guard, to dally with the senses to hold out an Apple to Eve; a world of Kingdoms and glory to Christ: Satan hath a Warrant to bid, when he cannot buy; his Pass will bear him to go to the more inner works then the senses, even to the chamber of the fancy, to send a Trumpeter to the understanding: 1. Yea,1 to work mediately upon the will and the heart of a Judas and to act, but in a way of distance, upon David to number the people; but a counterfeit Pass with a false subscription cannot permit Satan to go on in real motions against the will; the chain holdeth him back, there is a restraining link that all the powers in Hell cannot break: A Moral tie and link of the Law of nature in the breast of Devils, Satan can and doth daily break, Because he sinned from the beginning: but the other link of real acting against the dominion of Providence is unpossible to the strongest of Devils, or of Creatures. 2. We our selves may put in execution, a conditional Pass of the Devil, for certain it is, Satan could but knock at Eves door, and play the Orator or Sophist to delude mind and affections, but he could not make the Kings keys (as we say) and violently break up the door,2 or force the will, but upon condition that Eve should consent to eat forbidden fruit, by necessity of divine justice, she must turn the first and oldest Devil in the flesh that ever was, to tempt Adam to sin, and to eat; and therefore if we be not