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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 the mans own dream, for the broken debtor is never so righteous as the surety, except in this sense, he is aequè, but not aequaliter, he is righteous as the surety who has payed the sum for him, in regard that the Creditor can no more in Law, charge him with the sum, then he can in Law, charge the surety, who hath completely paid it; so are we in Christ freed from the guilt of eternal wrath, in that the Lord can no more in Law charge sin to actual condemnation on the Believer, then he can put Christ to death again, or give a new ransom for us, but this is but formally a righteousness, in regard of freedom from the punishment of sin: But as I have said, the surety is more righteous simply, in regard the Surety never broke faith to the Creditor; the broken debtor hath broken to him: 2. The Surety never injured the Creditor by unjustice done against the eighth Commandment, but the broken man hath failed in this: But I would be resolved what truth can ⟨p. 258⟩be in those, Prov. 20.9. Who can say I have made my heart clean? Job. 14.5. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No not one, Eccl. 7.20. There is not a just man upon earth, that doth good and sinneth not, Joh. 1.8. If we say we have no sin, we deceive our selves, and the truth is not in us: If we be completely as righteous as Christ; and if, as Crisp divines, all the Idolatry, Thefts, murders of the Redeemed: Become actually the transgressions of Christ•, and so cease to be the transgressions of the sinners, from that time they were laid upon Christ to the hour of their death: Can he determine the time when persecuting Sauls blasphemies, and bloody outrages to the Saints were laid upon Christ? I conceive he will say from Eternity, they were laid upon Christ, and ere he believed; certainly this was an untruth then: Saul made havoc of the Church, even when he did make havoc of the Church, and ere he believed; for if Saul persecuting, and all the Elect unconverted, yet disobedient, and boiling in their lusts, be as righteous as Christ all their life; It is most false that ever they were dead in sin, or some times disobedient: If it be said, The Elect considered in themselves and in nature are sinners, but considered as men in Christ, they are as righteous as Christ: it helpeth not, for we must not dream of, and fancy considerations, that hath no reality and truth in them;