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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.
6. Paul in the Epistle to the Romans, to the Galatians, taketh for granted, that justification §6is a work done in time, transient on us, not an immanent, and eternal action remaining either in God from eternity, or performed by Christ on the Cross before we believe; and so never taketh on him to prove that we are justified before, we either do the works of the Law, or believe in Jesus Christ: but that we are justified by Faith, which certainly is an act performed by a regenerate person, for a new creature only can perform the works of the new creature, and Faith is not the naked manifestation of our justification, so as we are justified before we have Faith; satisfaction is indeed given to justice by ⟨p. 86⟩Christ on the Cross, for all our sins before we believe, and before any justified person who lived these fifteen hundred years be born; but alas, that is not justification, but only the meritorious cause of it, that is, as if one should say this wall is white since the creation of the world, though this very day only it was whited, because whiteness was in the world since the creation; justification is a forinsecal sentence in time pronounced in the Gospel, and applied to me now, and never while the instant now that I believe; its not formally an act of the understanding to know a truth concerning my self, but its an heart-adherence of the affections to Christ as the saviour of sinners; at the presence of which a sentence of free absolution is pronounced: Suppose the Prince have it in his mind to pardon twenty Malefactors, his grace is the cause why they are pardoned, yet are they never in Law Pardoned, so as they can in Law plead immunity, while they can produce their Princes Royal sealed Pardon.
6. Paul in the Epistle to the Romans, to the Galatians, taketh for granted, that justification §6is a work done in time, transient on us, not an immanent, and eternall action remaining either in God from eternity, or performed by Christ on the Crosse before we believe; and so never taketh on him to prove that we are justified before, we either do the works of the Law, or believe in Iesus Christ: but that we are justified by Faith, which certainly is an act performed by a regenerate person, for a new creature only can perform the works of the new creature, and Faith is not the naked manifestation of our justification, so as we are justified before we have Faith; satisfaction is indeed given to justice by