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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

to the sails in that flux of the souls way toward God But Faith moderateth and lesseneth all these in relation to the creature so the Faith which hath its direct aspect toward eternity and looketh on the shortnesse of sliding away time and the trans●ent wheeling away o● the poor figure of this world 1 Cor. 7. v. 29.31 turneth all these acts into but half a face on th● creature and into leasurely and leaden motions or to half non-acts as if made up of heavenl● contradictions v. 29 30 31. Having wives having no wives Weeping no weeping Rejoicing no rejoicing Buying no possessing Vsing the world not using the world When the Saints throng through the presse and croud of the creatures for the world is a bushie and rank wood thorns take hold of their garments and retard them in their way Faith looseth their garments riddeth them of such thornie friends as are too kind to them in their journy who diggeth for Iron and Tin in the earth with mattocks of Gold What wise man would make a Web of cloth of gold a net to catch fish Expences should over-grow gains There 's much of the mettall of heaven in the soul Faith would forbid us to wear out the threds of this immortall spirit such as are love joy fear sorrow upon peeces of corruptible clay Alas is it Faiths light that setteth men a work to make the soul a golden-needle and the precious powers and affections thereof threds of silver to sow together peeces of sackcloth and old rotten rags What better I pray you is the finest of the web in the whole systeme of creation Certainly the heavens must be a thred of better wool then the clay-earth yet if you should break your immortal spirit and bend all the acts to the highest extent of your affections to conquer thousands of Acres of ground in the Heavens and intitle your soul to that inheritance as to your onely patrimonie without Christ Faiths day-light should discover to you that this finest part of that web of Creation with which you desire to cloth your precious soul is but base wool and rotten thred and though beautifull and well dyed to the eye yet Psal. 102.26 The heavens even all of them shall wax old like a garment And the wisdome of Faith knoweth a shop where there 's a more excellent suit of clothes for the soul 2 Cor. 5.1 2. And a more precious peece of the Heaven to dwell in even a House which is from Heaven with which you shall bee clothed When life shall eat up death and mortality 2. The creatures are below the affections of the believer and his affections conquer them as having the vantage of the mount above all the creatures So Paul maketh an elegant contrariety Phil. 3.19 20. Between those whose heart senses minde findeth neither smell taste nor wisedome but in earthly things for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to minde things of the earth importeth all these and those who by Faith look to Heaven and dwell there And the temporaries heart is below the world and the creatures are up in the mount above him So Mat. 13. v. 7.22 The thorns or cares of riches have the fore-start of the earth and sap above Faith or the good seed For the seed was cast in the earth when the thorns had been there before and had the vantage of the season and the soil both The first love is often strongest The Martyrs Heb. 11.35 had poor and weak thoughts of this life and would not accept and welcome life and deliverance from death but had strong acts of Faith and love toward a better resurrection It s a souls strong Faith that bringeth him to nil admirari and to wonder at nothing Never to love much nor fear much nor sorrow much nor joy much nor weep much nor laugh much nor hope much nor dispaire much when the creature is the object of all these acts there is nothing great not the worlds All things or their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to him who is possessed with that Righteousnes which is of God by Faith Phil. 3.8 9. Men that talketh with good will and all their heart of their learning books of their own Acts good Works Wisdom Court Honour valour in War Flocks Lands Gold Moneys Children Friends Travels are to Examine If Faith be not a chaste thing and that acts of whoredome with the creature and of believing in Christ are scarce consistent Let your affections move toward the creature without sound of feet 3. There must be self-forsaking in believing 1. An affirming and an ay to grace is a negation and deniall to it self 1 Cor. 15.10 I laboured more abundantly then they all Yet not I but the grace of God which was with me To deny that you are Christs or that you have any grace if Christ have any thing of his in you is not self-deniall but grace deniall and God-deniall deny the work of the spirit and deny himself It s a saying of humility Cant. 1.5 I am black and of Faith but comely as the tents of Kedar as the curtains of Solomon And Cant. 5.1 I slept but my heart waked It s Faith to hold fast your state of adoption Lord I am thine 2. When our self maketh a suit to self and putteth in a bill to the flesh O pitie thy self Rejoice O young man in thy youth It s self-renouncing to deny this request to the flesh And Faith only can give an answer to self-declining the crosse He that denieth me before men him will I deny before my Father and his holy Angels saith Christ. And another answer Faith giveth Rom. 8.12 I am not debtor to thee O flesh I owe thee nothing And its Faiths word of answer Eccles. 11.9 But know thou that for all these things God will bring thee unto judgement 3. Faith putteth the soul in that condition that self may be plucked from self without great violence as an apple full of the tree and of harvest-sap is with a small motion pluckt off the stalk Act. 21.13 I am ready 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I have my self in readinesse not only to be bound but also to dye at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus Certainly Faith saw here more in Jesus of excellency and sweetnesse then there could be of bitternes in bonds and death to self 4. There 's a deniall of the creature and a bill of defiance sent to all the lovers of the world when Ephraim is brought to this act of believing Hos. 14.3 For in thee the Fatherlesse findeth mercy Then it s said Ashur shall not save us We will not ride upon horses That creature that we trust on we ride upon it as Israel did upon the horses of Assyria and Aegypt But in this regard Faith dismounteth the believer and abaseth him to walk on foot All the creatures are ships to the believer without a bottome They are empty and weak David forbiddeth us to ride on a Prince

rate of Christ we under-rate any thing that is at our elbow should Christ throw himself in our bosome and lap while we are in a morning sleep he should not have the marrow and flower of our esteem its good there be some fire in us meeting with water while we seek after Christ. 3. His love must not onely lead the heart but also draw violence in love is most taking and delayes of enjoying so lovely a thing as Christ breedeth violence in our affections and suspension of presence oyleth the wheels of love desire joy want of Christ is a wing to the soul. Interpreters ask what woman she was Matthew saith a Canaanite not of any Gracious blood a Syrophenician for Syrophenicia was in the border between Palestine and Syria and it was now inhabited by the Reliques of the Canaanites a Greek not by birth but because of the Greek tonge Rites broght thither by Alexander and the succeding Kings of Syria All the Gentiles go under the name of Greeks in Scripture Language as Rom. 1.14 Gal. 3.28 1 Cor. 1.22 24. not because they are all Greeks by nation and blood but because Conquest Language and customes stand for blood and birth however it standeth as no blemish in Christs Compt-Book who was your Father whether an Ammorite or an Hittite so ye come to him he asketh not whose you are so you be his nor who is your Father so you will be his Brother and be of his house Mar. 7.24 And from thence he arose and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon Christ wearied of Judea had bin grieved in spirit with the Hypocrisie of the Pharisees and the provocation of that stiff-necked people He was chased away to the prophane Pagans The hardning of the Jews maketh way to Christs first and young love laid upon the Gentiles Christ doth but draw by a lap of the curtain of Separation and look through to one beleeving Heathen the King openeth one little window and holdeth out his face in one glimpse to the woman of Canaan so Christs works of deep providence are free mercy and pure Justice interwoven making one web He departeth from the Jews and setteth his face and heart on the Gentiles consider the art of providence here 1. The Devill sometime shapeth and our wise Lord seweth Babylon killeth God maketh alive Sin Hell and Death are made a Chariot to carry on the Lords excellent work 2. The providence of God hath two sides one black and sad another white and joyfull Heresie taketh strength and is green before the Sun Gods clearing of necessary and seasonable Truths is a fair side of that same providence Adams first sin was the Devill and Hell digging a hole through the comely and beautiful frame of the Creation of God and that is the dark side of providence but the flower of Jesse springing up to take away sin and to paint out to Men and Angels the glory of a Heaven and a new world of Free-grace that is a lightsome side of providence Christ scourged Christ in a case that he cannot command a cup of water Christ dying shamed forsaken is black But Christ in that same work redeeming the Captives of Hell opening to sinners forfeited Paradice that is fair and white Joseph weeping in the prison for no fault is foul and sad but Joseph brought out to reign as half a King to keep alive the Church of God in great Famine is joyfull and Glorious The Apostles whipped imprisoned killed all the day long are sad and heavy but sewed with this that God causeth them alwayes to Triumph and sow the savour of the knowledge of Christ and Paul riding on his iron Chains and exalting CHRIST in the Gospell through the Court of bloody Nero maketh up a fair comely contexture of Divine Providence 3. God in all his works now when he raineth from Heaven a sad showr of blood on the three Kingdoms hath his one foot on Justice that wrath may fill to the brim the cup of Malignants Prelats and Papists and his other foot on mercy to wash away the filth of the Daughter of Zion and to purge the blood of Ierusalem in the midst thereof by the spirit of judgement and by the spirit of burning And this is Gods way and ordinarie path-rode Psal. 25.10 and in one and the same motion God can walk both to the East and to the West and to the North and the South It is our fault that we look upon Gods wayes and works by halfes and pieces and so we see often nothing but the black side and the dark part of the Moon we mistake all when we look upon mens works by parts an house in the building lying in an hundred pieces here timber here a rafter there a spar there a stone in another place half a window in another place the side of a door there 's no beauty no face of an house here have patience a little and see them all by art compact●d together in order and you 'l see a fair building when a painter draweth the half of a man the one side of his head one eye the left arm shoulder and leg and hath not drawn the other side nor filled up with colours all the members parts limbs in its full proportion it s not like a man So do we look on Gods works by halfes and parts and we see him blouding his people scattering Parliaments chasing away Nobles and Prelats as not willing they should have a finger in laying one stone of his house yet do we not see that in this dispensation the other half of Gods work makes it a fair piece God is washing away the blood and filth of his Church removing these from the work who shall crosse it In bloudy Wars Malignant Souldiers ripping up women with childe waste spoil kill yet are they but purging Sions tin brasse and lead and such reprobate mettall as themselves Jesuits and false Teachers are but Gods snuffers to occasion the clearing and snuffing of the lamps of the tabernacle and make truth more naked and obvious SERMON II. And he went into a house and would that no man should know it THis will according to which it is said He would that no man should know it was his humane will according to which the Lord Iesus was a man as we are yet without sin which was not alway fulfilled for his Divine will being backed with omnipotency can never be resisted It overcometh all and can be resisted by none Consider what a Christ we have one who as God hath a standing will that cannot fall Esa. 14.24 He doth all his pleasure His pleasure and his work are commensurable Esa. 46.10 11. Psal. 135.6 Psal. 115.3 Yet this Lord did stoop so low as to take to himself mans will to submit to God and Law And see how Christ for our instruction is content that God should break his will and lay it below

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