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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.
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.
1. In his Cause and Truth;1 the Gospell 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 buryed 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 Emperours, throw all the Bibles in the fire; but this Truth cannot be hid, it Triumpheth: As soon pull down Jesus from his Royall seat at the right hand of God: as Babylon, Prelats, Papists, Malignants, in these three Kingdoms, can extinguish the People and Truth of Christ.
- 11. He cannot be hid in his Cause.
2. Believers cannot hide and dissemble a good or an ill condition in the soul;1 The well-beloved is away, and the Churches bed cannot keep her: All the Watchmen, all the streets, all the Daughters of Jerusalem; yea, Heaven, and Christ must hear of it,