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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.
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, 1 Joh. 1.8. Yea, let him be a Paul, Not under the Law, but being dead to the Law, Rom. 7.6. as touching all actual obligation, to eternal death: yet in regard of the real essence of sin, and proper contrariety that sin hath to Gods righteous Law, he crieth out, ver. 14. For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am carnal, and sold under sin, 17. Now it is no more I, (sanctified and pardoned I, who am in Christ, Rom. 8.1. dead to the Law, Rom. 7.6. freed from condemnation) that do sin, but sin that dwelleth in me. If there were no sinful I (to speak so) and no corrupt self in Paul, which breaketh out into sin, and this indwelling sin were as really in its essence, and its being removed, and taken close out of Paul, as money taken really out of a place, is no more left in that place, then if it had never been there: surely, then justified Saints were as clean as these, who are up before the Throne, clothed in white: and when Paul saith, It is no more I that do ⟨p. 240⟩