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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
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16. Gods Desertion cannot so hide and over-cloud Christ; but against sense the Child of God must believe; yea, and pray in Faith, Ps▪ 22.1. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? 2. O my God I cry by day. Though sin over-cloud Christ, and David fall in Adultery and blood, there's a seed of Christ, that must cast out blossoms, he cannot but repent and sorrow. Gods Decree of grace in the execution of it, may be broken in a link by some great sin, but Christ cannot but solder the chain, and raise the fallen sinner.
16. Gods Desertion cannot so hide and over-cloud Christ; but against sense the Childe of God must beleeve; yea, and pray in Faith, Ps▪ 22.1. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? 2. O my God I cry by day. Though sin over-cloud Christ, and David fall in Adultery and blood, there's a seed of Christ, that must cast out blossoms, he cannot but repent and sorrow. Gods Decree of grace in the execution of it, may be broken in a link by some great sin, but Christ cannot but soader the chain, and raise the fallen sinner.
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1It shall be useful then for the Saints, when ⟨p. 19⟩the spirit cometh in his stirrings,2 and impetuous acts, to co-operate with him, and to answer his wind-blowing: Its good to hoist up sail and make out, when a fair wind and a strong tide calleth: sometime Grace maketh the heart as a hot Iron, its good then to smite with the hammer: When your spirit is Docile, and there cometh a gale of Christs sweet West-wind and rusheth in, with a warmness of heart, in a praying disposition, to retire to a corner and pour out the soul before the Lord, as we are to take Christ at his word, so are we to take Christs spirit at his work: He knocketh, knock thou with him: His fingers make a stirring upon the handles of the bar, and drop down pure myrrh: Let thy heart make a stirring with his fingers also. I grant, wind maketh sailing, and all the powers on Earth cannot make wind; yet when God maketh wind, the Sea-men may draw sails and lance forth: God preventeth in all these, the spirit beateth fire out of our flint, we are to lay to a match and receive, reach in the heart under the stirrings of Free-grace, obey dispositions of Grace as God himself;