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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.
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, Cant. 3.1, 2, 3. Cant. 5.6, 7, 8. Mary Magdalens bed, and a mornings sleep, and the Company of Angels and Apostles cannot dry her cheeks, Woman what ails thee? (saith the Angel) O she weepeth; O what aileth me? They have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him: O Apostles, Where is he? O Sir, Angel, tell me if you saw him? O Grave,! O Death! Show me, is my Lord with you? The Love of ⟨p. 16⟩Christ is no Hypocrite: I grant some can for a time put a fair face on it; when Christ is absent; but most of the Saints look as a Bird fallen from the Raven, as a Lamb fallen out of the Lions mouth, as one too soon out of bed in the morning; O sick of Love! O show him! I charge you tell him, Watchmen, Daughters of Jerusalem, that I am sick of Love: Love is a paining, feverous, tormenting sickness: Grace cannot put on a laughing mask, when sweet Jesus is hidden: Love hath no art to conceal sorrow, the countenance of David, Psal. 42.5▪ is sick: There's death in his face, when God is not the light of his countenance.
2. Beleevers cannot hide and dissemble a good or an ill condition in the soul;1 The welbeloved 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, Cant. 3.1, 2, 3. Cant. 5.6, 7, 8. Mary Magdalens bed, and a mornings sleep, and the Company of Angels and Apostles cannot dry her cheeks, Woman what ayles thee? (saith the Angel) O she weepeth; O what ayleth me? They have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him: O Apostles, Where is he? O Sir, Angell, tell me if you saw him? O Grave,! O Death! Shew me, is my Lord with you? The Love of