THE TRIAL AND TRIUMPH OF FAITH
By Samuel Rutherford
Banner of Truth. 406 pages. £6.50
ISBN 0 85151 806 0
This is a collection of sermons, originally published in 1645, expounding the incident where the Canaanite woman comes to Jesus for the healing of her daughter.
Samuel Rutherford (1600-61) is described in the introduction as 'a devotional writer... a distinguished preacher, theologian and political thinker'. There are 27 sermons based on the verses in Matthew 15 and Mark 7 and Rutherford's subject matter therefore strays beyond the text itself.
