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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.
SERMON IV. The Woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by Nation.
SERMON IV. The Woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by Nation.
Much woe is denounced by the Prophets against Tyre and Sidon: yet sweet Jesus draweth by the curtain, and openeth a window of the partition, and saveth this Woman: Lo here Christ planting in the wilderness, the Cedar, the Shittah tree, the Myrtle, the Oil tree, 1Esa. 41.19. and here, Esa. 55.13. is fulfilled: And in stead of the thorn, (what better are Sidonians then thorns?) shall come up the Fir tree, and in stead of the Briar shall come up the Myrtle tree; and no praise to the ground, but to the good husband-man. And it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign, that shall not be cut off. Christ then can make & frame a fair Heaven out of an ugly Hell, and out of the knottiest timber he can make vessels of mercy for service in the high Palace of glory.2 1. What are they all, who are now glorified? The fairest face that standeth before the throne of Redeemed ones, was once inked and blacked with sin;3 you should not know Paul now with a Crown of a King on his head; he looketh not now like a Blasphemer, a Persecutor, an injurious person. The woman that had once seven Devils in her, is a Mary Magdalen far changed; and Grace made the ⟨p. 27⟩change. 2. Grace is a new world, Heb. 2.5.4