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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.
A certain Woman. There is but one of all Tyre and Sidon who came to Christ.1 1. It beseemeth the mercy of the good shepherd, to leave ninety and nine sheep in the Wilderness,§1 and go after one which is lost, Luke 15.4. And when all is done (alas) he hath but one of an whole hundred. Christ hath not the tithe of mankind: He maketh a Journey while he is wearied and thirsty through Samaria; yea, and wanteth his dinner for one Woman at that draught of his net, and thinketh he dineth like a King, and above, if he save one, Joh. 4.33, 34. O sweet husbands word, Jer. 3.14. I am married to you, and I will take you, one of a city and two of a Tribe, and I will bring you to Zion. Christ taketh sinners not by dozens, not by thousands (its but once in all the word, Act. 2. that three Thousand are converted at once) but by one's and two's. Though Israel be as the sand of the Sea, yet a Remnant shall but be saved, [Greek or Hebrew], Rom. 9.27. Esa. 10.22. The Relics and Refuse shall be saved only. 2. Common Love scarce amounteth to Grace; §2because Grace is separative, and singleth out one of many, all graced persons are privileged persons, Heaven is a house of chosen and privileged ones; there's no common stones in the ⟨p. 22⟩New Jerusalem, 2but all precious stones, the foundations Sapphires, the windows Agates and Carbuncles, all the Borders of pleasant stones, Esa. 54.11, 12. 3. Christs way lieth so, of two