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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.
2. The cause cannot be one & the same with the effect, nor the subject and fundament one with the adjunct, and that which resulteth from the fundament. But sin is the cause, fundament and subject, from which, guilt or actual obligation to punishment issueth, because therefore is the sinner under guilt-personal, and actual obligation to punishment, because he hath sinned, and is under the guilt of transgression, as he is therefore in Law and justice a guilt-debtor to suffer evil of punishment, because against Law and justice he is a bad deserving sinner, in doing against, and so by a (reatus culpae) a sin-guilt, hath transgressed a Law; for all evil of punishment, is a daughter which lay in the womb of the evil of sin; and the guilt of the latter ill of punishment ⟨p. 247⟩must flow from the former; to wit, from the ill of sin; so, to be guilty, or obliged to eternal punishment, is a fruit, and result or consequent of the fundamental and intrinsical guilt of sin. 3. An unjust and sinful deviation from the holy will of God revealed in his Law, and hateful to, and punishable by God, cannot be one and the same thing with that which is just, and agreeable to the just and holy will of God; but sin it self, in its formal being, is a deviation from the holy will of God revealed in his Law; sin being defined by John, A transgression of the Law, and is hateful to, and punishable by the Lord: But the guilt of sin, of which we now speak, is nothing but the demerit, and actual obligation to eternal punishment, and is no unjust thing, no transgression of Gods will revealed in his Law: yea, the demerit of sin is a most just thing, and the actual obligation to punishment is most just, and holy, and agreeable to Gods just will, and obligation to punishment can neither be punishable, nor hateful to God; yea, it is just with God that the sinner be under Law-obligation, to eat the fruits of the tree of his own planting, to have his teeth set on edge with the sour grapes that he eat himself. 4. He that borroweth money, and profusely and lavishly spendeth it, is in that a transgressor against the eighth Commandment, he committeth an act of unjustice against his brother; now this act of unjustice cannot formally ⟨p. 248⟩or intrinsically be the sin or sinful guilt of the innocent surety;
2. The cause cannot be one & the same with the effect, nor the subject and fundament one with the adjunct, and that which resulteth from the fundament. But sin is the cause, fundament and subject, from which, guilt or actuall obligation to punishment issueth, because therefore is the sinner under guilt-personall, and actuall obligation to punishment, because he hath sinned, and is under the guilt of transgression, as he is therefore in Law and justice a guilt-debter to suffer evill of punishment, because against Law and justice he is a bad deserving sinner, in doing against, and so by a (reatus culpae) a sin-guilt, hath transgressed a Law; for all evill of punishment, is a daughter which lay in the womb of the evill of sin; and the guilt of the latter ill of punishment