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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 is the blot of sin in relation to the holy Law, as it is a privation of the rectitude and holiness that the spiritual Law requireth; and it is formally sin, and not the guilt of sin; in which consideration, as nothing removeth blindness,1 but seeing eyes; or deafness, but hearing ears; so nothing, formally removeth sin, but only the perfect habit of accomplished sanctification; and so the blot ⟨p. 243⟩of sin, Macula, is not that which is formally removed in justification, but only in perfected sanctification. 2. The blot of sin in relation to God, as offended and injured, putteth on the habit of guilt, and so it is washed away in the Fountain opened to the house of David, and formally removed in justification, but now it is not formally considered as sin, but according to that which is accidental in sin; to wit, obligation to punishment, which may be, and is removed from sin, the true essence and nature of sin being saved whole and entire: Hence sin hath divers considerations: 1. As sin is contrary to the righteousness and holiness of the Law, it is formally sin, and this essential form, and life of sin remaineth in us while we live sin being in an act of dying, or a passion rather to be crucified, and in the way to its grave and perfect destruction, which shall be, when Glory shall grow up out of the stalk of Grace, and sanctification shall be perfected; for Grace is the bud, Glory the fruit; Grace the Spring and Summer, Glory the Harvest. 2. As sin is a blackness contrary to the innocency that the Law requireth, and as it blotteth and defileth the soul, it is a Macula, a spot, a filthy and deformed thing, abasing the creature, making the creature black, crooked, defiled, like the skin of the Ethiopian, or spotted like the Leopard, Jer. 13.23. 3. As sin is a blot that maketh the creature unpure, unclean, and contrary and hateful to God, so it is a blot ⟨p. 244⟩and unclean thing to God, and that two ways: 1. As it is contrary to Gods holy Law, its formally sin, as is before said: 2. As it offendeth and injureth God in his honour and glory of supreme Authority, to command what is just & holy, it is an offence, and a provocation,