A57982:552
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.
Posit. 4. A civil will is not a sanctified will, 1in some men the will is more Moral, less raging, then, the motions of it being less tumultuous, as in some carnal spirits the wheels go with less noise; all rivers make not alike action and stirring on their Banks,2 but that taketh nothing from either their nature or deepness, or occasional over-swelling.
Posit. 4. A civil will is not a sanctified wil, 1in some men the will is more Morall, lesse raging, then, the motions of it being lesse tumultuous, as in some carnal spirits the wheels go with lesse noise; all rivers make not alike action and stirring on their Banks,2 but that taketh nothing from either their nature or deepnesse, or occasionall over-swelling.
- 1A civil will is not a sanctified will.A civile wil is not a sanctified will.
- 2The yielding of the soul to God, and to his light a special note of a renewed will.The yielding of the soul to God, and to his light a speciall note of a renewed will.
Posit. 5. The special mark of a sanctified will, is, that its a broken thing, as it were fallen, in the midst, in two pieces, and yielding to God and saving light, there was a sea of grace and saving ⟨p. 452⟩