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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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Obj. 2. But the sins pardoned to the Justified person after the first justification of his person, were never pardoned before, and they are now pardoned, therefore there must be two justifications: Ans. They were virtually pardoned, and so, as he shall never come to condemnation for any sins past, or to come, but the man now standeth Justus in curia, justified in the Court, whereas before his first believing, God ⟨p. 231⟩looked at him as a judge doth at a guilty person, whose person he absolveth from all punishment, because his surety hath given a ransom for him, and he holdeth forth that ransom to the Judge, but the man in all his after faults is so far forth a sinner, as that which he hath done, though he be a justified David, displeaseth the Lord, 2 Sam. 11.27. And in so far is he pardoned; but God now looketh on him, as a Father on an offending Son; and this Son doth not hold forth a new ransom to God, but only renew the former: nor doth it infer a new acceptance of his person, that he had not before: 3. Nor place in God any new love of free complacency and good will, but only a further manifestation thereof, and a greater measure of the love of benevolence: 4. It is the same Act of Free-Grace that God putteth forth in pardoning his son now fallen in sin, and in accepting his person at first. 2. Its the same ransom of Christs atonement of his dear blood, that his Faith layeth hold on now, as before. 3. The pardon of this sin committed by a justified son, is not the freeing of him from the eternal punishment of this sin, as if he had been under eternal wrath for it before; for at his first believing, when his person was accepted, he was fully and freely pardoned and freed from all the obligation to eternal wrath, that all or any of his sins past, present, or to come might subject him unto, but it is the renewing of the certainty of the sufficiency ⟨p. 232⟩of Christs ransom, as applied to take away that sin in particular, and that by a renewed Act of Faith; now the renewed apprehension of the Grace of God in the same ransom of blood for righteousness in Christ, as applied to this new guiltiness, maketh not a new forinsecal and Law-act, but doth only apply the Lords first Act of Grace to this particular sin;1