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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
But some teach, that this Covenant hath no condition at all:1 So Dr. Crisp and other Libertines; For this is an everlasting Covenant, Man is not now so confirmed in grace, but he may fail in believing, and so soon as the Condition faileth, the Covenant faileth, as we see in the first Covenant. Ans. 1. That we have ⟨p. 78⟩no confirming grace to establish us to the day of Christ, is to teach with some Familists, that There is no grace in sound Believers, 2different in kind and nature, from that grace which is in many Hypocrites. Yea, but the pure in spirit are blessed, and shall see God, Hypocrites are not so. And what else is this but the Kings Road way to the Apostasy of the Saints, if believers have not Christ for their undertaker to bring them to glory?3 To intercede for them, Heb. 2.10. Luk. 22.32.33. 2. And though they believe not at the first hour, yet this Gospel-Covenant is not frustrated, even if poor souls believe at the eleventh hour; the former Covenant leaveth sinners for the first breach with out remedy, or hope of life, by the tenor of the Law, not so this Covenant. Christ knocketh while his locks be wet with night rain.
But some teach, that this Covenant hath no condition at all:1 So Dr. Crispe and other Libertines; For this is an everlasting Covenant, Man is not now so confirmed in grace, but he may fail in beleeving, and so soon as the Condition faileth, the Covenant faileth, as we see in the first Covenant. Ans. 1. That we have ⟨p. 78⟩no confirming grace to establish us to the day of Christ, is to teach with some Familists, that There is no grace in sound Believers, 2