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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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2. Its no truth of God that some teach, that the justified in Christ are of duty always tied to one and the same constant act of rejoicing with out any mixture of sadness and sorrow, for so they cannot, 1. Obey and follow the various ⟨p. 20⟩§1impressions of the Lords absence and presence, of Christs Sea ebbing and flowing, of his shining §2and smiling, and his louring and frowning. 2. The Faith of a justified condition, doth not root out all affections, nay not Love, Faith, desire and joy, if there be sin remaining in the justified, there's place of sadness, for fear, for sorrow: for the scum of affections are removed by §3Christ, not the affections themselves. 3. Christ for mere trial sometimes, for sin other times, doth cover himself with a cloud, and withdraw the sense of his favour: and its a cursed joy, that is on foot, when the Lord hideth his face. The Love of Christ must be sick and sad: I mean the Lover, when the beloved is under a cloud: It is not the new world with the Regenerate man here nor a Land where there's nothing but all Summer, all Sun, neither night, nor clouds, nor Rain, nor Storm, that is the condition of the second Paradise, of the better Adam. 4. Its §4a just and an innocent sorrow, to be grieved at that which grieveth the Holy spirit, and when the Lyon roareth, all the Beasts of the field are afraid. Grace maketh not Job a stock, nor Christ a man who cannot weep.
2. Its no truth of God that some teach, that the justified in Christ are of duty always tied to one and the same constant act of rejoycing with out any mixture of sadnesse and sorrow, for so they cannot, 1. Obey and follow the various ⟨p. 20⟩§1impressions of the Lords absence and presence, of Christs Sea ebbing and flowing, of his shining §2and smiling, and his lowring and frowning. 2. The Faith of a justified condition, doth not root out all affections, nay not Love, Faith, desire and joy, if there be sin remaining in the justified, there's place of sadnesse, for fear, for sorrow: for the scumme of affections are removed by