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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.
nor do I mean that Faith for Remission of sins committed after a soul is in the state of justification is nothing else but a mere reflect Act, by which we apprehend, and know the first acceptance of a sinner to righteousness; for it is a direct Act, apprehending the former grace of a sufficient ransom, as applied to this new contracted guiltiness; for the sinner is condemned for unbelief, Joh. 3.18, 36. And because he believeth not, he is liable to the wrath of God; now he is not condemned, because he doth not to his own sense know, feel and apply the Remission of sins and satisfaction purchased in Christs blood for him, because then he should be condemned, because he doth not believe a lie, for there was never any such Remission purchased for him; he is condemned, not for want of sense and actual knowledge of any such pardon, but for want of confiding on Christ, as on him who hath made a sufficient atonement for all that believeth, and so justifying Faith is some other thing then the sense of purchased Pardon of sins.
nor do I mean that Faith for Remission of sins committed after a soul is in the state of justification is nothing else but a meer reflect Act, by which we apprehend, and know the first acceptance of a sinner to righteousnesse; for it is a direct Act, apprehending the former grace of a sufficient ransom, as applied to this new contracted guiltinesse; for the sinner is condemned for unbelief, Joh. 3.18, 36. And because he believeth not, he is lyable to the wrath of God; now he is not condemned, because he doth not to his own sense know, feel and apply the Remission of sins and satisfaction purchased in Christs blood for him, because then he should be condemned, because he doth not believe a lie, for there was never any such Remission purchased for him; he is condemned, not for want of sense and actuall knowledge of any such pardon, but for want of confiding on Christ, as on him who hath made a sufficient atonement for all that believeth, and so justifying Faith is some other thing then the sense of purchased Pardon of sins.