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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.
Obj. Can you (saith M. Toun) separate the directing or commanding power of the Law, 1from the condemning power of the Law? can the Law speak to any but to those who are under the Law? Is it Law at all, if it condemn not? Ans. Actual condemnation may well be separated from the Law: as a Lyon is a Lyon, and yet being chained, cannot actually devour. To condemn may well be removed from the Law, it could not condemn Adam before sin entered in the world; it cannot condemn the Holy, Elect, and sinless Angels; yet it had, and hath a commanding and obliging power to command and direct both; to condemn is accidental to the Law, as the state of sin is accidental to man. 2. The Law may speak by way of direction to Believers, but cannot speak to them by way of actual condemnation, because Christ hath removed the curse.
Obj. Can you (saith M. Toun) separate the directing or commanding power of the Law, 1from the condemning power of the Law? can the Law speak to any but to those who are under the Law? Is it Law at all, if it condemn not? Ans. Actuall condemnation may well be separated from the Law: as a Lyon is a Lyon, and yet being chained, cannot actually devour. To condemn may well be removed from the Law, it could not condemn Adam before sin entred in the world; it cannot condemne the Holy, Elect, and sinlesse Angels; yet it had, and hath a commanding and obliging power to command and direct both; to condemn is accidentall to the Law, as the state of sin is accidentall to man. 2. The Law may speak by way of direction to Believers, but cannot speak to them by way of actuall condemnation, because Christ hath removed the curse.
- 1Obj. 1. Actual condemnation may be separated from the Law.Obj. 1. Actuall condemnation may be separated from the Law.