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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.
and give me leave to say, Princes at their Coronation do some extraordinary acts of Grace, by privilege of the new Crown, that they may handsel the new Throne with acts of Mercy: Christ was now in an act of pure, unmixed Grace actually and formally redeeming the lost world, on the Cross, and was now this day crowned by his Mother the Church, and installed King-Redeemer of Saints, and therefore would handsel Paradise with a sinner, by a privilege of matchless Grace; there is but one example of it in all the Scripture.
and give me leave to say, Princes at their Coronation do some extraordinary acts of Grace, by priviledge of the new Crown, that they may hansell the new Throne with acts of Mercy: Christ was now in an act of pure, unmixed Grace actually and formally redeeming the lost world, on the Crosse, and was now this day crowned by his Mother the Church, and installed King-Redeemer of Saints, and therefore would hansell Paradise with a sinner, by a priviledge of matchlesse Grace; there is but one example of it in all the Scripture.
7. The way to heaven is sweeter, that it ⟨p. 223⟩§7should be here, Nulla dies sine Linea, that every day and hour that we sin (as every hour we contract new debt) Christs free Grace might have its daily flux, the fountain opened to the house of David daily running, renewed forgiveness going along with this day, our daily bread: hence these noble acts of Grace. 1. Every sin, the least omission by Law, is hell, Deut. 27.26. Gal. 3.10. two sins, must be two hells; seven sins, seven hells; then multiplied sins, to the number of the hairs of Davids head, Psal. 40.12. and not sins only, but innumerable iniquities must cause the account of Christs free Grace to swell and arise to a deliverance from two, from seven, from innumerable hells. O Grace every day, every hour! So then the Rebel brought nine times a day, twenty times a day, for the space of forty years, by his Princes Grace from under the axe: how fair and sweet are the multiplied pardons, and reprivals of Grace, to speak so? Here is multitudes of multiplied redemptions, here is plenteous redemption: I defile every hour, Christ washeth; I fall, Grace raiseth me; I come this day, this morning, under the reverence of Justice, Grace pardoneth me; and so along, while Grace put me into heaven: The Lambs Book of life containeth not only the names of those who are ordained for that blessed end of eternal life, but also the means leading to the end; then here are written all the sins, al he pardons of free