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kingdom_n	england_n	peace_n	scotland_n	2,736	5	7.8650	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

for Zach. 4.6 Not by might nor by power but by my Spirit saith the Lord When Babylon is to be destroyed as the work is even now on the wheels in Britain Rev. 18.21 A mighty Angel took up the great milstone and threw it in the sea though it be a Vision by comparison yet it holdeth forth an immediate work of God in the ruine of Babylon and Angels powre their vials on the Sea on the Sun on the River Euphrates to make for the destruction of Babylon and in delivering of Lot Angels did work God himself spake to Noah for making an Ark although Angels be creatures yet the Lords action by them is more immediate then when he worketh by naturall causes when the Judges scourge and imprison the Apostles no man will speak for them the immediate power of God doth it the chains fall off legs and armes immediate providence is a key also to open the prison doors and they are saved There is a bloody war at the taking of the Ark and thirty thousand footmen of Israel killed 1 Sam. 4.10 11. But there is not a sword drawen when it s rescued The Ark cometh home its alone Gods immediate providence driveth and acteth upon two milk kine to bring it home again 1 Sam. 6.12 13 14. Who knoweth but when our strength of two Kingdoms hath failed us the Lord shall make Kine to bring home his Kingdom and Reformation to our doors were it possible that creatures could work salvation for us and freedome from the sword and sure peace in Scotland England and Ireland without God or any subordination to him let it be a deliverance from the creature only it should be no deliverance but a curse that which maketh salvation to be salvation is that God hath a finger of power and an influence of Free-grace in it O but this putteth the lustre sweetnesse and smell of Heaven on it that it is the salvation of the Lord Ex. 14.13 In regard of irresistable efficacy and successe under causes though chained to the influence of God are but Idoll-causes they lie as Cyphers and do nothing no more then a lame arm can master a sword The Lord worketh all our works for us and he is daily marring and shal further mar our Armies Parliaments Counsels undertakings to the end that more of Christ may appear in these wars then in other wars some immediate power must close and crown this glorious work in Britain God must be his alone and appear his alone and only Jehovah must be visible in the Mount to the end that bleeding England long afflicted Scotland and wasted Ireland may with one shout cry Not unto us O Lord Not unto us but unto thy name be the glory This discovereth the deceit of our confidence for when the Lord and the creature worketh together for our good Asa though his heart was perfect possibly seeth not whether he trust on the Lord or on the Physitian and yet the Scripture saith When he was diseased in his feet there was a worse disease about his heart for because he sought to the physitians he is blamed yet to seek to Physitians is lawfull but the spirit of God blameth his seeking to the Physitians and saith 2 Chron. 16.12 He sought not the Lord in his sicknesse and the reason is given 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Because he was in the Physitians So the Hebrew readeth it he is said not to seek the Lord not because he sought to the Physitians for that had not been a sin but because he was wholly the whole man soul and all in or on the Physitians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his care paines and heart was all on the Physitians so also the Greek expresse great care and diligence by the like Phrase 1 Tim. 4.15 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Give thy self to these things Seldome do we seek to God and trust in him when God and the creature are yoked together in a work that we are much bent upon as in Wars in a Reformation yea in a journey that the spirit is intent upon but in trusting on God we interpose a folding and a ply of the creature between our soul confidence and the Lord just as a pillow is put between the mans shoulder a pressing burden for fear the burden crush a bone we are afraid we give God too much to do or more then he is able to bear When we sail we seem to betrust our selves to the Lord and the Sea but the truth is often we trust more to the strong Ship then to the Sea or the Lord. Our confidence shifteth it self from under the Lord on upon the creature and the Arm of flesh so we walk often in the strength of the Lord as some walk upon Ice they walk softly and timorously upon it fearing it should break under them they put no faith upon cracking and weak Ice we are not daring and venturous in casting our selves and our burdens on the Lord. So in judgements Davids choice fell upon the Pestilence rather then the Sword Why Gods hand is sweeter and softer then the devils then the Malignants hard hand Samuel is one of the best children because he is given of God and is a child of many prayers Isaac the joyfull childe Why No thanks to nature or to Sarahs dead womb for him he is the son of an immediate promise Free-grace is rather Isaacs Father and Mother then Abraham and Sarah in ordinances a man speaketh but if Christ himself would speak O his Spikenard O his own Perfume O his own lips drop honey O his own Lebanon-like countenance Alas we think Christ is not Christ except the King help him Religion is not Religion except worldly throns bear it up the Gospel is a very immediate thing the Lilly amongst the thorns is Christs Lilly the Church stands more immediatly by Christ then any worldly thing doth God maketh the earth to bud and bring forth her fruits but the Son the soil the season of the year and nature are his under-servants God watereth the earth but by clouds Kings are indigent and very mediat and dependent creatures they need Armies Multitudes Navies Prelats Babylon Ireland France Spain Denmark Holland Moneys Friends Parliaments But Grace and the Gospel are more immediate and lesse needy The Gospel can live without all these SERMON XXVI BE it unto thee as thou wilt We see what power Christ hath over the devils Christ sent him invisible summons Let Satan be gone and he must be gone It is a proper work of Christ to oppose Satan Heb. 2.14 He took part of flesh and blood 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that he might make Satan unprofitable and idle and fruitless as the word is used Luke 13.7 Why doth this fruitlesse tree keep the ground saplesse and barren So is the word taken to make a thing of no effect Romanes 3.3 Things that make sport to children as nuts feathers toyes are called things of infants to be