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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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That being justified by his Grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life, Rom. 7. Paul maketh clearly two different times and States of the Saints, on v. 5. When we were in the flesh, and the motions of sins which were by the Law did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death, then our first husband the law was living, and we under a mother and father that begat children to death, and so we were justified: v. 6. But now we are delivered from the Law, and Rom. 6.14. Yea are not under the Law, but under Grace, when Christ our second husband marrieth the widow freed from her first husband the Law, then are we under grace and justified, and then new Lord, new Law: 4. By Faith we are only united to Christ, possessed of him, Christ §4dwelling in us, Ephes. 3.17. Living in me by Faith, Joh 11.26. Gal. 2.20. Receiving Christ, Joh. 1.11. Having Christ, 1 Joh. 5.12. Married to Christ, Eph. 5.32. Eating and drinking Christ by Faith, Joh. 6.35, 47, 45. Coming to him as to a living stone, 1 Pet. 2.4. Abiding in him as branches in the Tree, Joh. 15.4, 5. Now if we were justified before we believe, we should have a Union by the vital act of Faith, before we be justified, and so we should live before we ⟨p. 84⟩live, and be new creatures, while we are yet in §5the State of sin, and heirs of wrath: 5. This justification without Faith casteth loose the covenant.