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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.
But ⟨p. 251⟩I answer, Law-imputation is a most real thing, and no imagion, nor any lying supposition,1 as a man that is surety for his broken brother who hath wasted the creditors goods, is truly surety and really the debtor, and his obligation to pay for his broken friend is real, and most just upon two grounds: 1. That he gave faith and promise, and Writ and Seal, that his friend failing, he should pay: 2. The Creditor accepted him as a real Law-debtor and Pay-master in that case, •nd yet the surety in his person did neither borrow the money, nor lavishly wast it, and he hath in his person neither conscience nor guilt of unjustice toward his brother, and in regard of personal contagion of sinful guilt, Christ was completely and absolutely innocent in his Arraignment, as one that neither acted sin, nor could be the formal subject of sin, in whom the blot of it was intrinsically, or really inherent: But in regard that Christ was willing to strike hands with God, and to plight his faith and soul in pawn, and did willingly sign with his hand, an act of cautionary as our surety, Psa. 40. v. 6, 7, 8. Heb. 10 3 4.5.6.7, 8.9.10. And the Lord accepted him as Surety, and laid our sins on him, Isa. 56.6. 2 Cor. 5.21. Joh. 3.19. Rom. 3.2. He was made sin, that is, he was made a debtor, and a Law-paymaster so constituted by his own & his Fathers will; so that God did no act of unjustice in punishing Christ nor was he in law absolutely innocent, but nocent and guilty▪ that ⟨p. 252⟩is to say, in regard of his Law place, or Law-condition, he was by imputation liable and obnoxious to actual satisfaction & punishment for our sins; yet he was Debitor factus, non intrinsecè, debitor legaliter, non personaliter, debitor ratione conditionis & officii, non ratione personae, A sinner, a debtor by imputation, a debtor by Law, by place, by office, and served himself Heir to our sins, and the miseries following sin; Now he was not in imagination, and in a false and a lying supposition, made sin, imputation is not a lye; But as Truly and Really, a Real Law-deed, as Judah offered himself Surety for Benjamin, and was in Law, and really a Bondman to Joseph, and might have so been dealt with as a real slave, if he had plighted himself in stead of Benjamin;