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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.
3. Use. 1If Christ the Mediator be so excellent a person we are to seek our life the Gospel-way in Christ; we often conceive Legal or Law-thoughts of Christ, when we conceive the Father just, severe, and Christ his Son to be more meek and merciful; but the Text calleth him Lord, and so that same God with the Father; nor hath Christ more of Law, by dying to satisfy the Law, nor is he more merciful then the Father, because he and the Father are one; there are not two infinite wills, two infinite mercies, one in the Father, another in the Son; but one will, one mercy in both, and we owe alike love and honour to both, though there be an order in loving God, and serving him through Christ.
3. Vse. 1If Christ the Mediator be so excellent a person we are to seek our life the Gospel-way in Christ; we often conceive Legall or Law-thoughts of Christ, when we conceive the Father just, severe, and Christ his Son to be more meek and mercifull; but the Text calleth him Lord, and so that same God with the Father; nor hath Christ more of Law, by dying to satisfie the Law, nor is he more mercifull then the Father, because he and the Father are one; there are not two infinite wills, two infinite mercies, one in the Father, another in the Son; but one will, one mercy in both, and we owe alike love and honour to both, though there be an order in loving God, and serving him through Christ.
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4. Use. Infinite love, and infinite majesty,1 concur both in Christ; love and majesty in men, are often contrary to one another, and the one lesseneth the other; In Christ, the infinite God breatheth love in our flesh, 1. And we see but little of Christ, we know not well the Gospel-spirit, we rest much on duties to go civill Saints to Heaven; but the truth is, there be no Moral men and Civilians in Heaven, they be all deep in Christ who are there; we are strangers to Christ and believing. 2. The spirit of