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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
Sermon 15: 25. Then came she and worshipped him; saying, Lord help me]
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.
Use 1. Antinomians turn grace in a temptation, and then cast off all duties,1 as Christ has pardoned all sin, his righteousness imputed, is mine: what do you speak to me of Law-duties? The way that crieth down duties and sanctification, is not the way of grace; grace is an innocent thing, and will not take men off from duties, grace destroyeth not obedience: Christ has made faith a friend to the Law; the death of Christ destroyeth not graces activity in duties: Its true, grace trusted in, becomes our self, not grace; and self cannot storm heaven, and take Christ by violence; grace, though near of kindred to Christ, as it is received in us, is but a creature, and so may be made an Idol, when we trust in it, and seek not Christ first, and before created grace: but believing and doing are blood-friends, Joh. 11.26.
Vse 1. Antinomians turn grace in a temptation, and then cast off all duties,1 as Christ has pardoned all sin, his righteousnesse imputed, is mine: what do you speak to me of Law-duties? The way that cryeth down duties and sanctification, is not the way of grace; grace is an innocent thing, and will not take men off from duties, grace destroyeth not obedience: Christ has made faith a friend to the Law; the death of Christ destroyeth not graces activity in duties: Its true, grace trusted in, becomes our selfe, not grace; and self cannot storm heaven, and take Christ by violence; grace, though near of kindred to Christ, as it is received in us, is but a creature, and so may be made an Idoll, when we trust in it, and seek not Christ first, and before created grace: but beleeving and doing are bloud-friends, Joh. 11.26.
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