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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
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and these two removals of sin differ much, the former is a Law-removal of sin, not the removal of the essence and being of sin, the other removal is a Physical removal in root and branch; and therefore done by degrees according to the measure of begun sanctification, and shall never be perfect in this life, while that habit of sanctification which is contrary to sin Physically considered, shall be introduced, and the person perfected in glory: whereas the former removal is so perfect, as the person is made spot-less and whiter then snow: which two removals of sin, may be thus illustrated, there is a man defiled with leprosy in his body, this is a Physical contagion, the same man is condemned to die for a high point of treason against the State & Prince, this is a Law-contagion: The Physician cureth him of his Leprosy by a Physical expulsion of the disease but by degrees, & by little and little, and maketh at length his skin as the skin of a young child. The Prince and State sendeth to him a free pardon of his Treason,1 and he is at once perfectly acquitted from his guilt, but the Princes Pardon doth not Physically, and really expel out of his person the shame, the inherent blot and infamy of his foul and treacherous disloyalty that he committed against Prince and ⟨p. 215⟩State, so as this pardon should transubstantiate and change him by a Physical transmutation in a person as innocent and blameless, as any the most loyal subject of the Kingdom, the pardon putteth only upon him a Law-change, and a Moral immunity and freedom from a shameful death; and Christs pardon in like manner doth remove a Law-obligation to eternal death, so as there's no condemnation to the man, but it removeth not the inherent and Physical blot, nor the real obliquity between his foul sin, and the spiritual Law of God; nor doth it make him perfectly sinless and holy as if he had never sinned, as Antinomians dream;2 so the justification of the Saints is like the free acquitting of a broken man, that hath borrowed thousands, and is unable to pay, the cancelling of his Bill, freeth him in Law, from paying the sums, but doth in no case make him a man that never borrowed money; nor doth it free him from that inherent blot of unjustice, in regard of which he is a broken man, who hath wasted his neighbours goods;