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A57982	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.	Rutherford, Samuel, 1600?-1661.	1652 (1652)	Wing R2397A; ESTC R203460	278,378	498

oppressour and delivered them from pressures of conscience under Episcopacy a Masse-service and burdensome ceremonies and for the sins of the King Queen Court Prelats and Prophets the persecuting and killing the witnesses of Christ in Queen Maries days and in the late Prelats time and the present unjustice carelesse and remisse minding Religion and their labouring to spoile the Kingdome of Christ of that power that Christ hath given to his people of Church-discipline and translating it to their Parliament to make Church-discipline Parliament-discipline confounding so the two kingdoms their tolerating of blasphemous sects some denying the Godhead of Christ some his Kingly Office to sanctifie govern his people some his Priestly some his Propheticall Office and many other sins of Prophets and people not repented of and most of these sins and many others and especially the breach of the Covenant in Scotland these two Kingdomes are to fear heavy judgements and that their calamity is not yet at an end But rather one wo is passed but another cometh Except these lands be humbled and lie in the dust before the Lord Yet in all this the dispensation of God though bloody is but the Lord saying as of old so now to Britain Isa. 1.25 And I will turn my hand upon thee and purely purge away thy drosse and take away all thy tin 26. And I will restore thy Judges as at the first and thy counsellors as at the beginning afterward thou shalt be called the city of righteousnes the faithfull city 27. Zion shall be redeemed with judgement and her converts with righteousnesse 2. A rough dispensation of Christ cannot abide long rough to the Saints he must answer and ease the pain of the womans broken spirit it s a nights pain to Christ to cause the tears run down the cheeks of his Church all the night he cannot but bring a day light of joy before the Suns ordinary time to rise Ps. 30.5 Christ smiteth and weepeth for compassion both at once Tender mercy in Christ moveth as much if not more within then without The mothers bowels are as much on work within when the childe is but upon her breasts and he is not capable to know a mother as a mother and love as love as ever when the deserted is but new and hot come out of the second womb and a babe born over again yet in a spirituall Feaver he is as much as ever in the bowels of Christ though he be not in that case capable of the sense and actuall apprehension of Christ as Christ and of the sense of Christs love as his love Ier. 31.20 Since the time that I sufficiently talked with him in correcting him or since the time of my sufficiency of speaking against him in remembring him I do remember him I spake much in mine anger against him and half against my will I did chide him and scourge him but my moved bowels the stirrings of a compassionating heart did contradict in a manner my rough correcting my heart came out of me with every rough word and stroke The Sun and nature worketh long and many years under earth in the generation of Gold and Silver ere we see gold and silver God and his servant nature did us a pleasure a great favour in that kind in secret down in the bowels of the earth to make unseen and concealed provision for our purses this secret love to us acted down in the dark is no love to us while we find it and see it yet is nature in a mystery under a vail sweating under earth to bring forth for us Mettals Trees Herbs Flowers corn for our service but we see no harvest at that time Christs bowels are sweating and as much labouring in childe-birth paine of compassion and love and tender mercy toward us when we are in an Ague and a fit of desertion as at any time but we are loved of Christ and pittied and we know no such thing All Christs answers and words to this woman till now were but interpretations and Proclamations of wrath and rejecting of her as not one of the lost sheep of the house of Israel a Dog under the Table not a child of the house love came never above ground till now yet did Christs affection and love yern upon her all the time Out of all this we collect Christ may love persons yet his dispensation may be so rough as that to their sense there is no ground of being assured that Christ loveth them til he shall be pleased to manifest it Hence we may gather these Propositions considerable for the Times 1. Propos. Gods free and unhired love is the cause of our Redemption Vocation Sanctification and eternall salvation he loved us in our blood and while we were polluted in our blood Ezech. 16.6.8 When we were the lost world Joh. 3.16 ungodly Rom. 5.6 Enemies ver 10. He quickned us called us when dead in sinnes Eph. 2.1 Without works 2 Tim. 1.9 The bil of Grace is Christs welcome and pay nothing 2. Our Divines say God loveth the persons of the Elect but hateth their sins M. Denne offendeth at this and so doth the Arminians with the same reason if God hate the works of iniquity he cannot but hate the persons and workers of iniquity also It s true the Lord hateth so the persons of the Elect for their sins as he taketh vengeance of their sins on their Surety Christ but this consisteth with the Lords loving of their persons to eternall salvation The truth is Gods affection ad intra of hatred and displeasure never so passeth on the persons of the Elect as on the persons of the Reprobate he had thoughts of love and peace in secret from eternity to his own Elect he did frame a Heaven a Saviour for them before all time 3. Propos. Our Divines do rightly teach that there is a twofold love in God Amor benevolentiae A love of wel willing which he did bear to them before the world was it is called the love of Election Of this love Rom. 9.13 Paul speaketh I have loved Jacob and hated Esau this is fountain love the wel-head of all our salvation There is another love called Amor complacentiae A love of complacency a love of justification so M. Denne termeth it which presupposeth faith Without which its unpossible to please God Heb. 11.6 of this Christ speaketh Joh. 14.21 He that loveth me shall be loved of my Father and I will love him and will manifest my self to him ver 23. If a man love me he will keep my words and my Father will love him and we will come unto him and make our abode with him so Christ the wisdom of God saith I love them that love me Pro. 8.17 And so Christ speaketh of his love to his redeemed and sanctified Spouse Can. 4.9 Thou hast ravished my heart my sister my Spouse thou hast ravished my heart with one of thy eyes with one

Amen Even so Come Lord Iesus It shall not be well while the Father and Christ the prime Heire and all the weeping children be under one roofe in the Palace-Royall it is a sort of mysticall lameness and that the head wanteth an Arme or a finger and it is a violent and forced conditon for Arme and finger to be separated from the head The Saints are little pieces of mysticall Christ sick of love for union the wife of youth that wants her husband some years and expects he shall return to her from over-sea lands is often on the shoare every ship coming near shoar is her new joy her heart loves the wind that shall bring him home she askes at every passenger news O saw you my husband what is he doing when shall he come Is he shipped for a return Every Ship that carrieth not her husband is the breaking of her heart What desires hath the Spirit and Bride to hear when the Husband Christ shal say to the mighty Angels Make you ready for the journey let us go down and divide the skies and bow the heaven I 'le gather my prisoners of hope into me I can want my Rachael and her weeping children no longer Behold I come quickly to judge the Nations The Bride the Lambs wife blesseth the feet of the Messengers that preacheth such tiding Rejoice O Zion put on thy beautifull garments thy King is coming yea she loveth that quarter of the Skie that being rent asunder and cloven shall yield to her husband when he shall put through his glorious hand and shall come riding on the Raine bow and clouds to receive her to himself The condition of the people of God in the three Kingdoms calleth for this that we now wisely consider what the Lord is doing there is a Language of the Lords fire in Zion and His furnace in Jerusalem If we could understand the voice of the crying Rod The Arrowes of God flee beyond us and beside us but wee see little of God in them We Saile but we see not shoar we fight but we have no Victory the efficacy of second causes is the whole burden of the businesse and this burden we lay upon creatures and it s more then they can bear and not upon the Lord God is crying lamenesse on creatures and multitude that his eminency of working may be more seen 2. Many are friends to the successe of Reformation not to Reformation Mens Faith go along with the promises untill Providence seem to them to belie the promise through light at a key-hole many see God in these confusions in the three Kingdoms but they fall away because their joyning with the Cause was violent kindenesse to Christ it is not a friends visite to be driven to a friends house to be dry in a showre and then occasionally to visite wife and children Christ hath too many occasionall friends but the ground of all is this I love Jesus Christ but I have not the gift of burning-quick for Christ O how securely should Faith land us out of the Gun-shot of the prevailing power of a black hour of darknesse Faith can make us able to be willing for Christ to go thorow a quarter of Hells pain Lord give us not leave to be mad with worldly wisedome 3. When the Temptation sleepeth the mad man is wise the harlot is Chaste But when the vessell is peirced out cometh that which is within either Wine or Water Yet if we should attentively lay our ears to hypocrites wee should hear that their Lute-strings do miserably jar for Hycrisie is intelligible and may bee found out Would Parliaments begin at Christ we should not fear that which certainly we have cause to fear One wo is past and another wo cometh The Prophets in the three Kingdoms have not repented of the Superstition will-worship Idolatry Persecution Prophanity Formality which made them vile before the people and the Judges and Princes who turned judgement into gall and wormwood are not humbled because they were a snare on Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor No man repenteth and turneth from his evil way no man smitteth on his thigh saying what have I done It s but black Popery the name being changed not the thing to think the by-past sins of the Land are by-past and a sort of Reformation for time to come is satisfactory to GOD Ex opere operato By the deed done Yea the divisions in the Church are a heavier plague then the raging sword These same sins against the first and second Table the reconciling of us and Babylon Pride Bribing Extortion Filthiness and intemperance unpunished blood touching blood and not revenged vanity of apparell the professed way of salvation by all kinde of Religions whatsoever are now acted in another stage by other persons but they are these same sins if that head-ship that flattering Prelates took from Jesus Christ and gave to the King be yet taken from Christ and given to men if Christs Crown be pulled off his head no matter whose head it warme it s taken from Christ both wayes I shall pray that the fatnesse of the flesh of Jacob for this do not wax leane and that the warefare of Britaine be accomplished But if the faithfull watchmen know what hour of the night it is now there be but small appearance that it is near to the dawning of Britains deliverance or that our sky shall clear in hast would God the yeare 1645. were with childe to bring forth the salvation of Britain It was once as incredible that the enemy should have entred within the gates of Jerusalem as it is now that they can enter within the Ports of London Edinburgh Dublin I speak not this to incourage Cavaliers for certainly God watcheth over them for vengeance but that we go not on farther to break with Christ the weaknesse of new heads devising new Religions and multiplying Gods for two sundry and contrary Religions argue interpretatively two sundry Gods According to the number of our Cities must come from rottennesse of our hearts O if we could be instructed before the decree that is with childe of Plagues to the sinners in Zion bring forth a man childe and before the long shadows of the evening be stretched out on us But of this Theame no more Grace is the Proposition of this following Treatise when either Grace is turned into painted but rotten nature as Arminians do or into wantonnesse as others do The error to me is of a far other and higher elevation then opinions touching Church-Government Tenacious adhering to Antinomian errors with an obstinate and finall persistance in them both as touching Faith to and suitable practise of them I shall think cannot be fathered upon any of the regenerated For it is an opinion not in the Margin and borders but in the page and body and too near the Center and vitall parts of the Gospel if any offend that I desire to anger them with good-will to

Debtor both to the Greeks and the Barbarians both to the wise and unwise Grace awed him as a Debt layeth fetters on an ingenious minde he cannot but out his free and honest mind in paying what he oweth 6. Gods Desertion cannot so hide and over-cloud Christ but against sense the Childe of God must beleeve yea and pray in Faith Ps 22.1 My God my God why hast thou forsaken me 2. O my God I cry by day Though sin over-cloud Christ and David fall in Adultery and blood there 's a seed of Christ that must cast out blossoms he cannot but repent and sorrow Gods Decree of grace in the execution of it may be broken in a link by some great sin but Christ cannot but soader the chain and raise the fallen sinner It shall be usefull then for the Saints when the spirit cometh in his stirrings and impetuous acts to co-operate with him and to answer his wind-blowing It s 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 when the Sun riseth the Birds may sing but their singing is no cause of the Sun rising 2. It s 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 impressions of the Lords absence and presence of Christs Sea ebbing and flowing of his shining and 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 Christ not the affections themselves 3. Christ for meer triall sometimes for sin other times doth cover himself with a cloud and withdraw the sense of his favour and it s 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 Paradice of the better Adam 4. It s a 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 Iob a stock nor Christ a man who cannot weep And behold a Woman of Canaan And a certain Woman Of the Woman 1. But one person of all Tyrus and Sidon came to him 2. She was a Syrophenician by Nation 3. Her condition She had a Daughter vexed with a Devill 4. With an unclean Devill 5. The nearer occasion She heard of him 6. She adored 7. She prayed and so way is made to the conference between Christ and her And to the Triall and Miracle A certain Woman There is but one of all Tyrus and Sidon who came to Christ. 1. It beseemeth the mercy of the good shepherd to leave ninety and nine sheep in the Wildernesse 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 mankinde 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 Ioh. 4.33 34. O sweet husbands word Jer. 3.14 I am married to you and I will take you one of a citie 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 bee saved 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 9.27 Esa. 10.22 The Reliques and Refuse shall be saved only 2. Common Love scarce amounteth to Grace because Grace is separative and singleth out one of many all graced persons are priviledged persons Heaven is a house of chosen and priveledged ones there 's no common stones in the New Jerusalem but all precious stones the foundations Saphirs the windows Agats and Carbuncles all the Borders of pleasant stones Esa. 54.11 12. 3. Christs way lyeth so of two grinding at the mil of two in the field together of two in one bed Christ wil have but one Christ often wil not have both husband and wife both Father and Son but the one Brother Iacob not Esau of a whole house Christ cometh to the Devils fire side and chuseth one and draweth him out and leaveth all the Family to the devil 4. Christ knoweth them well whom he chuseth Grace is a rare peece of the choise and the floor of the love of Heaven there bee many common stones not many Pearls not many Diamonds and Saphirs The multitude be all Arminians from the womb every Heresie is a peece of the old Adams wanton wit thousands go to Hell black Hereticks and Heterodox as touching the Doctrine of themselves every man hath Grace if you believe himself Vnusquisque est in eâ heresi every man taketh Heaven for his home and heritage Dogs think to rest in Christs bosome men naturally believe though they be but up and down with Christ yet Christ doth so bear them at good-will as to give Grace and Glory Obj. 1. Gods Love is not infinite if it bee limited to a few Ans. This should conclude that there be an infinite number of Men and Angels to whom Gods Love to Salvation is betrothed in affection but his love is infinite in its Act not in its Object The way of carrying on his love is infinite Obj. 2. To ascribe

they are unrenewed are strangers to inward conflicts of souls praying and not answered of God the fainting and swooning Church Cant. 5.6 7. is pained O dear watch men saw you my Husband Heavy was her spirit but what then v. 7. The watch-men that went about the City found me they smote me they wounded me the keepers of the walls took away my vail from me in stead of binding up her wounds they returned her buffets and pulled her hair down about her ears And the daughters of Ierusalem say to the sick sighing Church pained for the want of her Lord v. 9. What is thy beloved more then another beloved c. Whereof is thy Christ made of Gold or is thy beloved more precious then all beloveds in the world Troubled Hannah grieved in spirit to Eli is a drunken woman The Angels finde Mary Magdalen weeping they leave her weeping they give her a doctrinall comfort Woman why weepest thou he is not here he is risen again 1. If a string in the conscience be broken the Apostles that were with Magdalen cannot tye a knot on it again If there be a rent in the heart so as the two sides of the soul of the woman rent asunder she poor woman still weepeth O why speake you O Angels to comfort me they have taken away my Lord. Angels what are you to me And indeed they cannot sew up the womans rented heart This is the Lords Prerogative Esa. 57.19 I create the fruit of the lips peace I know no Creator but one and I know̄ no Peace-Creator but one Peace of conscience is Grace Grace is made of pure nothing and not made of nature Pastors may speak of peace but God speaketh peace to his people Ps. 85.8 2. There be some acts of nature in which men have no hand to bring Bread out of the earth and Vines men have a hand but in raising Winds in giving Rain neither Kings Armies of men nor acts of Parliament have any influence The tempering of the wheeles and motions of a distempered conscience is so high and supernaturall a work that Christ behoved to have the Spirit of the Lord on him above his fellowes and must be sent with a special Commission to apply the sweet hands the soft mercifull fingers of the Mediator with the art of Heaven Esa. 61.1 That I saith he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 should as a Chyrurgian bind up with splints and bands the broken in heart and comfort the mourners in Sion There must 3. be some immediate action of Omnipotency especially when he sets a Hoast of terrors in battle array against the soul as is evident in Saul in Iob c. 16.13 His Archers compasse me round about that is no lesse then the soul is like a man beset by enemies round about so as there is no help in the creature but he must die in the midst of them Job 6.4 The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me only the Lord of Hoasts by an immediate action raiseth these souldiers the terrors of God he only can calme them What wonder then that Ministers the Word Comforts Promises Angels Prophets Apostles cannot bind up a broken heart friends cannot while a good word come from God It s easie for us on the shore to cry to those tossed in the sea between death and life Saile thus and thus it s nothing to speak good words to the sick yet Angels have not skill of experience in this the afflicted in minde are like infants that cannot tell their disease they apprehend Hell and its real hel to them Many Ministers are but Horse physitians in this disease wine and musick are vain remedies there is need of a Creator of peace she is frantick say they and it s but a fit of a naturall melancholy and distraction The Disciples are Physitians of no value to a soul crying and not heard of Christ. Oh Moses is a meek man David a sweet singer Job and his experience profitable the Apostles Gods Instruments the Virgin Mary is full of grace the glorified desire the Church to be delivered but they are all nothing to Jesus Christ there is more in a piece of a corner of Christs heart to speak so then in Millions of worlds of Angels and created comforts when the conscience hath gotten a back-throw with the hand of the Almighty 24. But he answered and said I am not sent but for the lost sheep of the house of Israel In this answer two things are to be observed 1. The temptation coming from Christ denying he had any thing to do with this woman I am not sent for her 2. The matter of the temptation containing Christs 1. sending 2. to whom To the house of Israel 3. Under what notion The sheep of the house of Israel 4. what sort of sheep The lost sheep In the temptation consider 1. who tempteth 2. the nature of the temptation for the former It s Christ who tempteth Hence these Positions 1. Pos. God tempeth no man to sin Jam. 1.13 Let no man say when he is tempted I am tempted of God for God cannot be tempted neither tempteth he any 14. But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust God doth try rather then tempt 1. God cannot command sin 2. He cannot actuate the crooked faculties to sin as he that spurreth a Horse putteth the horse to actuall motion But the dislocated legge of the horse putteth in act the halting power of the horse 3. He cannot infuse sinfull habits which are as weights of Iron and Lead to incline the soul to sin 4. He cannot approve sin Satan never tempteth but upon practicall knowledge either that the wheels may run down the mount as he tempted Eve and upon that false perswasion tempted Christ to sin or then he knoweth sin hath oyled the wheels and inclinations and so casteth in Fire-brands knowing that there 's powder and fire-wood within us in our concupisence he should not offer to be a Father to the brood of Hell if he knew not that a seed and mother were within us except Christ by grace cast water on our l●sts and coole the furnace wee conceive flames easily 2. Pos. Neither Devils nor men nor our heart may without sin tempt or try the creature by putting it to do that which may prove sin upon any intention to try whether that creature shall obey God or not Had Abraham coōmanded Isaac to kil Iacob his son to try whither Isaac loved God or no it had been a sinful tempting of him A creature cannot put his fellow-creatur upon the margin border of death such as all sin is to try if the creature hath a good head that cannot be giddy God may try duties by events He is the Potter we the Clay but clay is limited to try events upon clay by duties only and not by events duties 3. Pos. Wanton and vain reason would say Why did the