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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.
but to believe after the order of Free-Grace; that is, that they be first self-lost and sick, and then be saved by the Physician.
but to believe after the order of Free-Grace; that is, that they be first self-lost and sick, and then be saved by the Physitian.
I cannot but here mention some damnable errors of Libertines, 1contrary to this Truth of Christ; as this, That the spirit acts most in the Saints, when they endeavour least. 1. It may be by accident and through our abuse, who ⟨p. 157⟩confide in our endeavours and works,2 that Grace and the spirit will not flatter merits, which are too natural to us; that God let a sweating wrestler who hath spent nights in Prayer, and is careful in all means, and abundant in the work of the Lord: See and understand, that Free-Grace, not our endeavours, leadeth us on to Heaven: Better it is I be conscious to my self that I am Christs debtor, not debtor to my self. 2. That we see self to be wretched, and that self loveth to share and to divide the glory with Free-grace. 3. That Christ reserveth the flowing of his tide, and the blowing of his wind to his own Free grace, Joh. 3.8. And that Grace in its filling the sails is not in the Sea-mans power. But this error is the Daughter of another more damnable: that is,3 That the activity and efficacy of Christs death, is to kill all activity of Graces in his members, that Christ may be all in all. This I take to be the marrow of fleshly Libertinism, that not only the Regenerate cannot sin; but they ought to sin that Grace may abound; and that Christ died for this end, that we should live in sin, the contrary of which is said,