A57982:558
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.
SERMON XXVII.
Mar. 7.30. And when she was come to her house, she found the Devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.
Because I hast to an end, and shall not now refute the dream of Papists from this collecting the lawfulness of their bastard confirmation, and of confirming children, by the unhallowed blessing of the Prelate; only observe the case of the child; Mark saith, [Greek or Hebrew] Cast, in a violent manner, in a bed: for this is not to be a bed of rest and security, as some Papists collect, but to express how violent Satan is in his last farewell, as when he is ⟨p. 460⟩to be cast out, Mark 9.20. When the possessed child is brought to Jesus, and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him, and he fell on the ground and wallowed foaming: The Devil and the unclean spirits are not thrown out of a person, or Land, but they must rage and foam: 1. The Lord saith, Zach. 13.2. I will cut off the names of Idols out of the land, 1and they shall be no more remembered; and I will cause the prophets, and the unclean spirits to pass out of the land; But this cannot be done but with great violence, vers. 3. The father and the mother shall thrust through with a sword the false Prophet, even their own son ere he be put out of the land: The Devil will not be removed without blood, sweating and great violence; when the unclean spirits of men given to curious Arts, and the Idol Diana is preached down in Ephesus,