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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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Object. 5. The covenant is Gods love to man, to take him to himself, 1and that before the children do good or ill, 2and to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. Ans. The covenant is a fruit and effect of Gods love, but it is not formally Gods love, for because ⟨p. 81⟩God loved Israel, therefore did he enter in covenant with them, Deut. 7.7, 8. Ezech. 16.8. and Arminians expound, that of Jacobs embracing of the covenant by Faith, and of Esau's rejecting of it through unbelief: Whereas Paul speaketh of Jacob and Esau, as they lay stated in the eye and view of God from eternity, ere they were borne, and had as yet neither done good nor ill: Now the covenant of Grace or Gospel manifested to Jacob and Esau, is not eternal, but proposed to them after they are borne, and when the offer of Christ in the Gospel is made, and how could Esau ere he was born refuse the Gospel, except you say he did evil before he did evil? which is non-sense: 2. Paul saith plainly, To him that believeth is the work reckoned.
Object. 5. The covenant is Gods love to man, to take him to himself, 1and that before the children do good or ill, 2and to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. Ans. The covenant is a fruit and effect of Gods love, but it is not formally Gods love, for because ⟨p. 81⟩God loved Israel, therefore did he enter in covenant with them, Deut. 7.7, 8. Ezech. 16.8. and Arminians expound, that of Iacobs imbracing of the covenant by Faith, and of Esaus rejecting of it through unbelief: Whereas Paul speaketh of Iacob and Esau, as they lay stated in the eye and view of God from eternity, ere they were borne, and had as yet neither done good nor ill: Now the covenant of Grace or Gospel manifested to Iacob and Esau, is not eternall, but proposed to them after they are borne, and when the offer of Christ in the Gospel is made, and how could Esau ere he was born refuse the Gospel, except you say he did evil before he did evil? which is non-sense: 2. Paul saith plainly, To him that believeth is the work reckoned.