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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.
and the Surety by the words of his own mouth, and by his Covenant and Promise is really and truly ensnared, as a true and real debtor in Law; as a Roe is really in the hand of the Hunter; and a Bird in the Fowlers Net, being once caught and in hands, Prov. 6.1, 2, 3, 4, 5. He is no debtor by imagination, he is not supposed to be what he is not indeed by the Law of God and nature and all Laws, Promissum cadit in real debitum, A mans promise fetcheth him within the Law-compass of a real debtor: So Christ was under Bail and a Law. Act of Surety by his own Act, his own word of Promise and Covenant: Thou hast given me a body, I have taken the ⟨p. 253⟩debts & sins of my poor brethren on me; crave me Lord, as only paymaster, Lo here am I, to do thy will, Psal. 40.6, 7, 8. Heb. 10.4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Joh. 10.18. Now there are but these two in sin, 1. The Act committed against the Law of God: 2. The debt and obligation to punishment is clear; and though Doctor Crisp deny that sin was imputed to Christ at least; he cannot see, or read it in all the Scripture, yet he granteth the thing it self: But I prove both the one and the other: And 1. That Christ committed and did no Act, nor deed against Law, for which he should be §1intrinsically and inherently the sinner, is clear;1 because that holy thing Jesus being God-man could not sin, nor did he ever any violence or deceit, Isa. 53.9. Heb. 4.15. and chap. 8. ver. 26.2. The inherent vitiosity, and sinful blot of sin, which followeth upon the Physical Act of sin, being once done and committed by David, Peter, and all the Elect of God, cannot come out by a real transmigration, and true and Physical §2