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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.
Quest. But cannot Christ be hid? Ans. Not of himself:1 Its hard to hide a great fire, or to cast a covering upon sweet odours that they smell not: Christs Name is as a sweet ointment poured out, he is a Mountain of spices, and he's a strong savour of Heaven, and of the higher Paradise: You may hide the man that he shall not see the Sun; but you cannot cast a garment over the body of the Sun, and hide day-light.
Quest. BVt cannot Christ be hid? Ans. Not of himself:1 Its hard to hide a great fire, or to cast a covering upon sweet odours that they smell not: Christs Name is as a sweet oyntment powred out, he is a Mountain of spices, and hee's a strong savour of Heaven, and of the higher Paradice: You may hide the man that he shal not see the Sun; but you cannot cast a garment over the body of the Sun, and hide day-light.
- 1How CHRIST and his grace can not be hid.How CHRIST and his grace can not bee hid.
From which it appeareth that Christ cannot be hid.
1. In his Cause and Truth;1 the Gospel is scourged and imprisoned when the Apostles are so served; yet it cometh to light and filleth Jerusalem, and filleth all the world. What was done to hide Christ? when he and his Gospel is buried under a great stone, yet his fame goeth abroad; Death is no covering to Christ, Papists burn all the Books of Protestants, they kill and slay the Witnesses; Antiochus and the persecuting Emperors, throw all the Bibles in the fire; but this Truth cannot be hid, it Triumpheth: As soon pull down Jesus from his Royal seat at the right hand of God: as Babylon, Prelates, Papists, Malignants, in these three Kingdoms, can extinguish the People and Truth of Christ.