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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.
the conflict between fire and water, is neither from the fire only, nor from the water only, but from both, yoking together; yea, certain it is, that the flesh cannot, and doth not complain of its own motions against the spirit, sin cannot complain of sin, its the renewed part that complaineth of the stirrings and motions of the unrenewed part: Satan is not divided against Satan, nor sin against sin; Its true, the sins of the Justified are said to be sought, and not found, Jer. 50.20. And our transgressions are said to be blotted out, and blotted out as a thick cloud, and to be remembered no more, Isa. 43.25. Is. 44.22. Psal. 51.1. And to be subdued, and cast in the depths of the ⟨p. 213⟩Sea, Mic. 7.19. and we washed, Rev. 1.5. Psa. 51.2. And made whiter then the snow: 7. And Christs Church is so undefiled, so fair as the Moon, clear as the Sun, Cant. 5.2. c. 6.10. That Christ himself giveth a testimony of her, Cant. 4.7. Thou art all fair my love, there is no spot in thee; all which are true in a Law-sense, and in Legal and Moral Freedom from sin, in regard the sins of the justified and washed in Christs blood, shall no more be charged upon them to their condemnation, then if they had never committed any sins at all, and as if their sins were no sins to witness against them in judgement, they being clothed with Christs white and spotless righteousness; for they are in their actual guilt, as touching the Law-sting and power, as no sins, no debts, but obliterated in the Book of Gods account, and as a blotted out cloud, which is no cloud, in which regard they must be white & fair whom Christ washeth: I profess it is sweet to be dipped in the new fountain opened to the house of David, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness, and under the sweet and fair hand of the Mediator, that he might wash us; I know he should not be ashamed of his labour, but should make fair and white work. But in regard of the inherent root, essence, and formal being of sin, the saints are not freed and delivered from sin, but these same sins, though broken in their dominion to command as Tyrants,