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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.
SERMON XVIII.
Nay, give me leave to say, that Antinomians make justification and free grace their ⟨p. 207⟩Common-place of Divinity, as if they only had seen the visions of the Almighty, and no other, but they are utterly ignorant thereof; for they confound and mix what the Word distinguisheth,1 because justification is only a removal of sin by a Law way, so that in Law it cannot actually condemn, Rom. 8.1. There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, [Greek or Hebrew], he saith not, [Greek or Hebrew], nothing that deserveth condemnation; Nihil condemnabile: So that in Law, all obligation to external punishment, called Reatus personae, the guiltiness of the sinner is removed, and he shall never be condemned for sin, because Christ did bear that guilt for him; hence we say, in this regard its blasphemy to say, that tears of sinners do wash away sin, that sorrow for sin, and fasting, pacifieth, or removeth Gods wrath; for my part I never used such Popish and unsavoury speeches. Papists do, and we must distinguish between the lax Rhetoric, and the strict Divinity of fathers. But 2. Justification is not an abolition of sin in its real essence, & Physical indwelling. Justified Paul sigheth and crieth, Rom. 7.14. I am carnal, sold under sin. 18. I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good. 24. O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death: Now if the sense of the corrupt flesh make these complaints in Job, David, Paul, and if sinful flesh opposite to faith, apprehending the just contrary in