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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
Sermon 2: And he went into a house, and would that no man should know it.
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SERMON II. And he went into a house, and would that no man should know it.
This will, according to which it is said, He would that no man should know it, was his humane will, according to which the Lord Jesus was a man as we are,1 yet without sin; which was not alway fulfilled; for his Divine will, being backed with omnipotency, can never be resisted: It overcometh all, and can be resisted by none. Consider what a Christ we have, one who as God, hath a standing will that cannot fall,2 Esa. 14.24. He doth all his pleasure: His pleasure and his work are commensurable, Esa. 46.10, 11. Psal. 135.6. Psal. 115.3. Yet this Lord did stoop so low as to take to himself mans will to submit to God and Law. And see how Christ for our instruction is content, that God should break his will and lay it below providence, Mat. 26.39. O so little and low as great ⟨p. 9⟩Jesus Christ is, all is come to this, O my father, remove the cup; Nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt: Christ and his Father, hath but one will between them both, Joh. 5.30. I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father that sent me, Rom. 15.3. For even Christ pleased not himself. Its a sign of conformity with Christ, when we have a will so mortified, as it doth lye level with Gods providence. Aaron's sons are killed, and that by God immediately from heaven with fire, a judgement very hell-like,