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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.
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 ⟨p. 224⟩Grace since the first Adam sinned: O, but the Book of life must be a huge Volume! O, how large, and broad, and long must the Accounts of the Grace of Christ be? 2, We are not saved, completely, because justified; but Rom. 8.23. We are expectants of the Divinity of immediate vision, & groan within our selves, waiting for the Adoption, the Redemption of our body: v. 24. and are saved by hope. In regard of Title, we are saved completely: but in another sense we are but Lords and Kings in Title only; we are far from the Lands, Rents, Crown, and our fathers house, and so are not saved while our feet stand within the streets of the new Jerusalem. 3. In this consideration, we sigh in our fetters and bolts, and sin remaineth in us, for our exercise and humiliation, that we may have an habitual engagement to Jesus Christ and his Grace; that soul loveth much, to whom much is forgiven;