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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.
as if you would say, The surety is the broken and riotous waster: all that have come, mon sense know this to be a figurative & unproper speech, that is, he is in Law liable to pay the debts of the broken waster; and the Law-guilt, and Law-obligation, that was in the broken man is transferred on him by his own promise: But no man in his right wits can say, that the broken man is as intrinsically just, as sober a manager ⟨p. 256⟩of his goods, as free from all intrinsical fault and sin of unjustice and breach of the eighth Commandment, as the innocent surety; no sober wit can say, that the unjustice and injury done by the broken man to his brother, and against the eighth Commandment, Thou shalt not steal, Is nothing formally, but the very just and real deed that the surety hath taken upon him; and that the surety is as guilty with the same very fault and sin of wastry, that is inherent in the broken bankrupt, as the bankrupt himself; and it is as great blasphemy to say Christ is as guilty, and as inherently faulty, and no less a transgressor of the sixth and seventh Commandment, by killing Uriah, and deflowering Bathsheba, then ever David was, and that David was as free from the inherent Fundamental guilt of these sins from Eternity (for Libertines will needs have our sins from Eternity to lie on Christ, and our persons before all time justified) as Christ himself is. 1. God made Christ sin, God made not David to murder Uriah: Then Christ must be one way a sinner, David another way, the one by imputation, the other by real inherency. 2. David was intrinsically a transgressor of a Law: Christ not so. 3. David was washed and pardoned in the blood of Christ, Christ not so:1 Then Davids Righteousness is but borrowed, and Christs Righteousness his own: 2. There is an essential Righteousness that Christ hath with the Father, and it is ⟨p. 257⟩communicable neither to men nor Angel, no more then God can communicate with the creature any other of his essential attributes, such as are infinite Justice, infinite Mercy, infinite Grace, Holiness, Goodness, Omnipotency, Eternity, Immensity. It is only the cautionary, the surety Righteousness of Christ God that is made ours,2