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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.
There should be no members on earth to be crucified, as it is, Col. 3.5. No old man to be put off, no corruption, no deceitful lusts in us to be abated; as we are charged, Eph. 4.22, 23. No fleshly lusts in us, which warreth against the soul: as, 1 Pet. 2.11. No weight, no sin that doth so easily beset us, to be laid aside by the regenerated and justified, who are to run their race with patience, contrary to the Spirit of God, speaking the contrary, Heb. 12.1, 2. Yea, there shall be no original sin remaining in the justified person which can be named sin, nothing in them lusting against the spirit, nothing to be mortified, crucified, resisted, nothing to •e work for the grace of God, nothing to be a field and plot of ground to be laboured on by the spirit, by faith, nothing to be the seed and rise of humiliation, the sinner may go to heaven, and be nothing in Christs debt, to help him against indwelling sin, for that guest is so taken away, as money that was in a place, and is every penny ⟨p. 241⟩really removed to another place: yea, its a flat contradiction (say Antinomians) to be a pardoned soul, and yet to have sin dwelling in the soul.
There should be no members on earth to be crucified, as it is, Col. 3.5. No old man to be put off, no corruption, no deceitfull lusts in us to bee abated; as we are charged, Eph. 4.22, 23. No fleshly lusts in us, which warreth against the soul: as, 1 Pet. 2.11. No weight, no sin that doth so easily beset us, to be laid aside by the regenerated and justified, who are to run their race with patience, contrary to the Spirit of God, speaking the contrary,