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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.
There is a second removal of sin, and that is when the believer is justified by faith: Paul, Rom. 4.6. Even as David (saith he) also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works: 7. ⟨p. 227⟩(saying) Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered: 8. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth no sin: This is the blessedness of a man born, living, believing: Now we say unproperly, the heirs of a King not born are blessed; Non entis nulla sunt accidentia. So if Christs removal of sins on the Cross, were justification, all Christs seed, and we believers of the Gentiles, who were not then born, when Christ died, should be blessed, and justified before we be born. Now in this which is formally the justification of the believing sinner, the believers person is accepted, reconciled, justified, and really translated by a Law-change, from one state to another.1 I mean not, that there is a Physical infusion of a new habit of sanctification, and an expulsion of an old habit, as Papists teach, confounding regeneration, or sanctification, with justification. But there is a real change of the state of the person, 1 Cor. 6.11. And such were some of you; but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified &c. then they were sometime not justified. 2. There is here a real removal of all sins, and a pardon and relaxation from the eternal punishment of all sins; as well of sins to come, and not yet committed, as of sins past, present, and already committed; so as sins not yet committed, shall no more involve the believer in the punishment of eternal wrath then sins past, or present. Yet 3. the sins not committed, ⟨p. 228⟩though virtually pardoned,2 (with correction and submission) are not formally pardoned: that which is not sin at all, but only in a naked potency it must be pardoned only in that notion that it is a sin, and not first formally remitted, and then afterward committed; yet it is paid for, and the person freed from all actual condemnation for it: but with all, conditionally, and virtually, so he believe in Christ, and renew his repentance, which graces God shall infallibly give him, because the calling and gifts of God are without repentance: And of this third removal of sin, is that Petition that Christ hath taught justified persons to ask of God: