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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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If any object that I am contrary to my self, in that I sometimes did write, that justification is a plenary Pardon in one indivisible act of all sins, past, present, and to come, and therefore sin cannot be oftener then once Pardoned: If I should answer that the knowledge we have, especially in so supernatural a mystery, is but the twilight or the day-Stars glimmering of sinful men, it might suffice, but I judge that I speak nothing contrary to that.
If any object that I am contrary to my self, in that I sometimes did write, that justification is a plenary Pardon in one indivisible act of all sins, past, present, and to come, and therefore sin cannot be oftner then once Pardoned: If I should answer that the knowledge we have, especially in so supernaturall a mystery, is but the twilight or the day-Stars glimmering of sinfull men, it might suffice, but I judge that I speak nothing contrary to that.
Asser. 3. For two formal justifications of a Believer I utterly deny,1 which is that which Arminians press not a little; yea, and the justification of the person, and his acceptance in Gods favour is but one act: I never fall from that acceptance once being in Court and Grace. I illustrate it thus: There's a Catholic Pardon in a Statute of Parliament,2 for Grace to all Traitors, and that for Treasons past, and also to come, upon condition, that after new Treasons committed, they address themselves to the Public Register of the State, and cause insert their names in the blank of that Act of Grace Printed, and in the keeping of some Officer of State; now though any one be Pardoned at his first lapse fully, if he fail again, and again, and yet perform the condition prescribed in Law; ⟨p. 230⟩we cannot say, he hath obtained twenty, a hundred; yea, as many several pardons of Grace, as he hath failed against King and State, its but one public Act of Grace made use of several times: so here in the Gospel there is a written Act of the Grace of God in Jesus Christ; Remission to all under the Treason of sin against the Royal Crown and glory of the most High, the Supreme Law-Giver, and that to the acceptation of the person of the Traitor in full favour, when he shall have in his conscience the transumpt or transcript of it at first, and also for Grace and Pardon of all after-slips and sins against the glory of the Redeemer (so he sin not against the only flower of the Prerogative-Royal, the operation of the Holy Ghost in a special manner) upon condition he walk from Faith to Faith,