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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.
These are intrinsically, and in their person cursed, as being sinners in their person; and so the intrinsical objects of divine hatred, and a curse and abominable to God. Yea, but Christ was also cursed▪ But how? Not intrinsically; God is never said to hate his Son Christ, nor to abhor him, as he doth sin which personally resideth in the man who acteth sin in his own person: Therefore the Lords forsaking of Christ his Son, is not an intrinsical detesting, or a moral abhorring of Christ; but an extrinsical, a penal, or a judicial suspending of the beams and rays (as Cyril saith) ⟨p. 261⟩or the overclouding of his favour, in the comfortable shining on the soul of his own sin: and it is not said that Christ was cursed, but only, vers. 13. [Greek or Hebrew], He was made a curse for us, that is, the fruits and effects of Gods curse, the punishment due to sinners, even that satisfactory, and penal curse and punishment, which infinite Justice requireth, was laid upon Christ, while as he died upon the Cross, and suffered the effects of Gods wrath upon his soul for our sins: Then he must be the sinner, only by Imputation, except Antinomians show to us, how a person is made sin, or accounted the sinner? And yet is neither a sinner by inherent and personal acting of sin: nor yet by Law-imputation: And truly, its bad Divinity for Dr. Crisp to say, as we are actual and real sinners in Adam, so here God passeth really sin over upon Christ, for we sinned intrinsically in Adam, as parts, as members, as being in his loins, and we are thence, by nature the children of wrath, Eph. 2. But it is blasphemy to say, that our blessed Saviour sinned intrinsically in us, as part or member of the Redeemed, or that he is a son of Gods wrath for sin intrinsically inherent in him, as it is in us.
These are intrinsecally, and in their person cursed, as being sinners in their person; and so the intrinsecall objects of divine hatred, and a curse and abominable to God. Yea, but Christ was also cursed▪ But how? Not intrinsecally; God is never said to hate his Son Christ, nor to abhor him, as he doth sin which personally resideth in the man who acteth sin in his own person: Therefore the Lords forsaking of Christ his Son, is not an intrinsecall detesting, or a morall abhorring of Christ; but an extrinsecall, a penall, or a judiciall suspending of the beams and rayes (as Cyrill saith)