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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.
Let me answer: That in all this you shall find Grace turned unto wantonness, in all this man• Sermons there is not one word to stir up to the duties of sanctification and holiness, but there i• much in these words, and several other passages of his two little Volumes of Sermons, to depress, and cry down holiness and walking with God. I shall therefore say a little on this, and deliver truth shortly in these positions:
Let me answer: That in all this you shal find Grace turned unto wantonnesse, in all this man• Sermons there is not one word to stir up to the duties of sanctification and holines, but there i• much in these words, and severall other passages of his two little Volumes of Sermons, to depresse, and cry down holinesse and walking with God. I shall therefore say a little on this, and deliver truth shortly in these positions:
1Posit. 1. No believers sin is so counted upon Christs score, as that it leaveth off to be the believers sin, according to its Physical and real indwelling: Its true▪ it is Christs sin by Law-imputation, and legal obligation to satisfactory punishment, and only laid upon Christ in that Notion: yet its so the believers sin, as he is to mourn for this very thing, that Christ was pierced, and crucified, to remove the guilt, and the ⟨p. 239⟩obligation to satisfactory punishment. Zac. 12.10. And they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son. Yea, its so the believers sin, even when he believeth that his original corruption is pardoned, yet it dwelleth in him, having the complete essence and being of sin; so as if he should say, he had no sin, and nothing in him contrary to the holy Law of God; he should deceive himself, and the truth should not be in him,