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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.
Truly Lord, the Dogs] See and consider this woman, whose faith was great, as Christ saith, and so was justified: she confesseth,1 and esteemeth her self a Dog, and so an unworthy and profane person.
Truely Lord, the Dogs] See and consider this woman, whose faith was great, as Christ saith, and so was justified: she confesseth,1 and esteemeth her self a Dog, and so an unworthy and prophane person.
- 1Doct. A justified soul is to confess sin and to be sorry for it. Confession of sins made by the justified proveth to be a duty.Doct. A justified soul is to confesse sin and to be sorry for it. Confession of sins made by the justified proveth to be a duty.
Doct. A justified believer is to confess his sins, to have a sense and sorrow for them, though they be pardoned. The word is clear for both confession, and sorrow for sin: though Antinomians make it a work of the flesh in the justified person, either to confess sin, or to sorrow for it, or to crave pardon for it: For confession there is commandment, practice, promise, Num. 5.6. Speak unto the children of Israel, when ⟨p. 200⟩§1a man or a woman shall commit any sin that men commit to do a trespass against the Lord, and that person be guilty. Then they shall confess their sin, that they have done: This is not a duty of the unconverted only, but tying all the children of Israel, men and women,