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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.
A wearying of the Lord and a making him to serve, Isa. 43.24. Isa. 7.15. A loading of the Lord, Isa. 1.24. A pressing of the Lord, as a Cart is pressed under a heavy load of sheaves, Amos 2.13. and so is punished with everlasting punishment:1 Hence there is a twofold guilt, one Fundamental, potential, reatus culpae; the guilt of sin as sin, this is all one with sin▪ being the very essence, soul, and formal being of sin, and this guilt of sin you cannot remove from sin, so as sin shall remain sin, take this away, and you take away sin it self: But this is removed in sanctification as perfected, not in justification, as all the Arguments of Doctor Crisp go along in their strength to prove that the guilt of sin, Reatus culpae, the fundamental guilt of sin, and sin it self are all one: so we shall yield all to him, but with no gain to his bad cause:2 For Josephs brethren say, Gen. 42.22. Truly we sinned, Verè peccantes, nos super fratrem nostrum; or were guilty against our ⟨p. 245⟩brother: This is nothing, but we trespassed against our brother; this is not spoken so much of guilt, as of sin it self: and the Malefactor, saying, he is not guilty, meaneth of fundamental guilt, or the guilt of sin, and that he hath not committed the crime charged upon him. But there is another guilt in sin, called Reatus poenae, reatus personae, reatus actualis, 3the guilt or obligation to punishment, the actual guilt, or actual obligation of the person, who hath sinned to punishment; and this guilt is a thing far different from sin it self, and is separable from sin, and may be, and is removed from sin without the destruction of the essence of sin, and is fully removed in justification: Now that this guilt is different from sin: I prove, 1. Because, that which our blessed Surety took upon