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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.
but perfected sanctification expelleth sin in his essence, being root and branch in its dominion, Lordly power indwelling, so that it is no more: and this is like the expelling of night-darkness out of the whole body of the Air, by the presence of the Sun diffusing its beams and light, from East to West, and North and South: I grant the habit of sanctification perfected in glory doth not make ⟨p. 216⟩it a false proposition, that such a pardoned and washed Saint never sinned, for Factum infectum, fieri non potest: What is done can never be undone; that were a speaking contradiction, but it putteth the man in that State that he is as free of the indwelling of the body of sin, and perfectly holy, as the body of the Air at Noon-day is free of darkness, and qualified with inherent light; now Antinomians cannot endure (especially Master Eaton their chief leader) that we say that sanctification is unperfect in this life, or that the indwelling of sin can consist with free justification and remission of sins in Christs blood: But let us turn our eyes a little toward the wisdom of Gods free dispensation, to scan the reasons why our Lord will have justified Saints to go halting to heaven.
but perfected sanctification expelleth sin in his essence, being root and branch in its dominion, Lordly power indwelling, so that it is no more: and this is like the expelling of night-darknesse out of the whole body of the Air, by the presence of the Sun diffusing its beams and light, from East to West, and North and South: I grant the habit of sanctification perfected in glory doth not make ⟨p. 216⟩it a false proposition, that such a pardoned and washed Saint never sinned, for Factum infectum, fieri non potest: What is done can never be undone; that were a speaking contradiction, but it putteth the man in that State that he is as free of the indwelling of the body of sin, and perfectly holy, as the body of the Aire at Noon-day is free of darknesse, and qualified with inherent light; now Antinomians cannot endure (especially Master Eaton their chiefe leader) that we say that sanctification is unperfect in this life, or that the indwelling of sin can consist with free justification and remission of sins in Christs blood: But let us turn our eyes a little toward the wisdom of Gods free dispensation, to scan the reasons why our Lord will have justified Saints to go halting to heaven.