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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
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7. The contrary error is founded upon two §7other errors, that all afflictions, are subservient Officers, and Sergeants to the Law, and so they are signs of Gods wrath, as is the Law, and as Believers are freed from the ruling power of the Law, so also from the Rod. But this is false, for Gods rod of it self, is neither a sign of revenging justice, nor of free mercy; but it taketh its ⟨p. 38⟩nature and specification, from the intention and mind of God; all these externals fall alike, to Elect and Reprobate: The repenting Thief, and the blaspheming Thief are under the same Rod of God, both die a violent death: wicked Ahab, and good Josiah are both killed in War: the Botches, and Agues threatened in the Law, Deut. 28.60. are upon Job, chap. 2. v. 7. What maketh then the same Rod to be a work of revenging justice in the Reprobate, and of justice mixed and tempered with mercy and fatherly kindness in the other? Certainly, Gods pleasure and wise intention, punishing for different ends, varieth the nature of the rods, so as an intention to take satisfactory vengeance on the Reprobate, specifieth his Rod, and maketh it punishment of black wrath, of salt, and unmixed justice on him, and this intention is an essential ingredient in satisfactory punishment. God writeth and engraveth upon the tooth-ache of a Reprobate, a parcel of Hell; and he stampeth upon burning-quick, racking, and torturing, the engraving of Heaven, of mercy, and loving kindness in the Believer: bastard Crosses, and lawfully begotten afflictions have the same Father, but not the same Mother: 2. If the Patrons of this error could make Gods rod as Arbitrary, as they fancy the duties of the teaching, and ruling Law of God to be, they should cry down all Crosses, and send all the justified persons to heaven, with a Pass, securing them from all affliction ⟨p. 39⟩in the way to heaven, and so Christ should bring his many children to glory with dry faces, and whole skins; whereas Christ himself passed to heaven with the tear in his eye, and a bruised soul. The other error is, that Christ hath made a full atonement for sin, and fully satisfied justice for all that are justified in his blood, and therefore they cannot be punished for sin themselves: But 1. There is more in the conclusion then in the premises: Ergo, the justified cannot suffer satisfactory punishment for sin, either in whole, or part;