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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.
5. The properties of the Covenant I call: 1. The freedom of it consisting in persons:1 2. Causes: 3. Time: 4. Manner of dispensation: 1. Men, and not condemned, Angels are capable of this covenant: 2. Amongst men some Nations,2 not others, Psal. 147.19, 20. 3. So many, not any other: 4. The Father, not the Son, the poor, not always Kings; the Fool, not the wise man;3 the husband, not the wife, not these ⟨p. 87⟩who were bidden to the Supper, but beggars, halt, withered, lame. 2. Causes, 4in the first covenant there was Grace not deserving, and therefore now as the Law is propounded, it is a Pursuivant of Grace, and the Gospels servant to stand at Christs and the Believers back, as an attending servant: 2. Yea mercy unto thousands, toward those who have but Evangelic love to Christ, cometh into the Law, Christ having (in a sort) married the two Covenants: 3. I am the Lord thy God, Exod. 20. Is Grace standing at the entry of the door, to these that are under the Law, to bring them out, but in the Gospel all is unmixed Grace: 1. Not personal obedience is my heaven, but I stand still, and another doth all that may merit glory: Christ saith, Do ye but stand still, behold me, and see, friends, my garments rolled in blood; I bind for you, only consent, put your hand to the Pen, but I am the only undertaker to fight it out for you: 3. For time, the first breach of the Law is wrath;5 and no place by Law for repentance, but here come to Christ, who will, and when you will, after thou hast plaid the Harlot with many lovers: bring Hell and sins red as scarlet and crimson, come and be washen, come at the eleventh hour and welcome; fall and rise again in Christ; run away, and come home again and repent.