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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.
1Object. 2. (I will put my Law in your inward parts) is no condition to be performed by us, but by God only, and so all the tie lieth upon God, if God do not this as he promiseth, Jer. 31. Must not the fault or failing be his who is tied in a covenant to perform his part, 2& doth it not? Now this God promiseth, Jer. 31. Heb. 8.10. Ezek. 36.26.27. Ans. Either doth God promise to give us Faith, and to cause us to walk in his ways, Ezek. 36.26.27. and to circumcise our hearts to love the Lord. Deut. 30.6. which Arminians deny, contrary to the clear day-light of Scripture, or then, when ever we sin who are ⟨p. 79⟩under the Covenant of Grace, by committing and acting works of the flesh, and omitting to believe, pray, praise, humble our souls for sin, God is to be blamed, who worketh not in us by his efficacious Grace to will and to do, as he hath promised, Phil. 2.13. Ezek. 36.26.27. and the regenerate cannot sin at all, because its the Lords fault (God avert blasphemy) that we sin, for for without his giving of a new heart, and his efficacious moving us to walk in his way (to which God is tied by Covenant, Ezek. 36.27. Deut. 30.6.) We cannot choose but sin; hence they teach we are not obliged to pray, nor do we sin in not believing, in not praying, when the breath of the wind of the Holy Ghost doth not blow, and act us to those holy duties.