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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.
4. Ezek. 9.6. Slay old and young—begin at §4my sanctuary, Luk. 1.20. And behold thou shalt be dumb—because thou believest not my word. The Church of God In terminis saith so much, Lamen. 1.18. The Lord is righteous, for I have rebelled against his Commandment: 14. The yoke of my transgression is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck. ch. 3.39. Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sin. 40. Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord, Isa. 42.24. Who gave Jacob for a spoil, & Israel to the Robbers? did not the Lord against whom we have sinned? Mica. 7.9. I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned, 2 Kin. 24.20. For through the anger of the Lord it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the King of Babylon. Its not of weight that is brought to take off the ⟨p. 36⟩force of these pregnant Scriptures: The Church consisting of mixed persons, good and bad, elect, and reprobate (say they) is according to the wicked party punished in justice, but not the believing party: But I answer, all Judah good and and ill, Jeremiah, Daniel, and all the holy seed were involved with the perverse and obstinate Idolaters, in the same common calamity of a sad captivity, and it was not the ill figs, and stiff-necked Idolaters, that did confess the Lords Righteousness, and their own Rebellion against the Lord, nor did the wicked party enter in a Trial of their ways, and acknowledge that the unregenerate man only suffereth for his sins, nor did any of that side, with patience, hope, and silence, bear the indignation of the Lord, it was the true Church, Gods Jacob, the meek of the earth, that did thus stoop to Gods correction, and yet these same were punished for their sins, as they acknowledge, Lam. 1.18. Mic. 7.9