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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.
If God see nothing of sin in the saints §2after their justification, then there can be no §3sin in them after justification, and so the justified §4cannot sin, except they may sin, and yet God cannot see them sin contrary to Ps. 69.5. Ps. 139.1, 2, 3. Yet John saith, even of himself, and of those who have an Advocate in heaven, 1 Joh. 2.1. That if we say we have no sin we deceive our selves, and the truth is not in us, 1 Joh. 1.8. Now he cannot speak of men as considered in the state of nature and unjustified, because to answer a doubt of weak consciences who said; oh if we have sin, then are we eternally lost and condemned: he answereth, 1. the justified are to confess, v. 9. and God is faithful to forgive: 2. He answereth, 1 John 2.1. If we sin, we have an advocate with the ⟨p. 209⟩Father. 5. It must inevitably follow that Christ commanding these who have a Father in heaven to pray (forgive us our sins) commandeth them daily to pray out of a fleshly doubting, not from the Spirit of Faith; I had rather say with Scripture, that all the justified Saints must take down their Top-Sail, and go to heaven halting, and that they carry their bolts and fetters of indwelling […] through the field of Free-Grace, even to the gates of glory, Christ daily washing and renewing Pardons, and we daily defiling, to the end that grace may be grace.
If God see nothing of sin in the saints §2after their justification, then there can be no §3sin in them after justification, and so the justified §4