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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.
Christ promiseth soul ease but upon a condition which (I grant) his Grace worketh that the soul be sin-sick for Christ; and he offereth wine and milk, Isa. 55.1. And the water of life freely, Rev. 22.17. Upon condition, that you buy without money; no purse is Christs Grace-Market, no hire and sense of ⟨p. 85⟩wretchedness, is a hire for Christ,1 and the truth is, its an unproper condition, if a father promise Lands to a son so he will pay him a thousand Crowns for the Lands, and if the Father of Free-grace can only, and doth give him the thousand Crowns also, the payment is most unproperly a hire or a condition, and we may well say the whole bargain is pure Grace; for both wages and work is Free-grace; but the ground of Libertines is fleshly laziness, and to sin, because Grace aboundeth; for they print it, that all the activity of a Believer is to sin: So to believe must be sin; to run the ways of Gods commandments, with a heart enlarged by Grace, must be no action of Grace, but an action of the flesh.
Christ promiseth soul ease but upon a condition which (I grant) his Grace worketh that the soul be sin-sick for Christ; and he offereth wine and milk, Isa. 55.1. And the water of life freely, Rev. 22.17. Upon condition, that you buy without money; no purse is Christs Grace-Market, no hire and sence of ⟨p. 85⟩wretchednesse, is a hire for Christ,1 and the truth is, its an unproper condition, if a father promise Lands to a son so he will pay him a thousand Crowns for the Lands, and if the Father of Free-grace can only, and doth give him the thousand Crowns also, the payment is most unproperly a hire or a condition, and we may well say the whole bargain is pure Grace; for both wages and work is Free-grace; but the ground of Libertines is fleshly lazinesse, and to sin, because Grace aboundeth; for they print it, that all the activity of a Believer is to sin: So to believe must be sin; to run the ways of Gods commandments, with a heart inlarged by Grace, must be no action of Grace, but an action of the flesh.