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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.
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;3 when the Sun riseth the Birds may sing; but their singing is no cause of the Sun rising.
1It shall be usefull 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 hoyse 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 warmnesse of heart, in a praying disposition, to retire to a corner and powre 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 myrhe: 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 slint, 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;