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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.
Justice gave in a broad and large claim against Jesus Christ, in which were written all the sins of the elect; And Christ opened not his mouth, but was dumb as a Lamb, led to the shambles, and his silence was as much, as Lord, I grant, I yield to all the accounts in this sad claim: you will not confess your guiltiness, O sinners in Christ! Nor ⟨p. 264⟩take with riots, murders, oaths, and all your sins: But the surety Christ was craved, and all your accounts demanded of him, and he confessed debt, and granted all, v. 12. He was numbered: So [Greek or Hebrew] Minna, he was reputed, and written up in the compt amongst thieves: this was mere imputation, he was not a wicked man indeed: And consider how; v. 3. He is called, despised and rejected of men, Christ in himself and intrinsically was the glory, the flower, the Prince of men, even at his lowest, he must then be abased below all men, in regard of imputation, and that penal degrading of Christ; so as it is said of him, he was [Greek or Hebrew] Chadal ishim, which is, as Vatablus expoundeth it, so contemptible a man, that men would not admit him in company of men, Aria. Mont. desiit viris; others expound it, Cessatio virorum: Jerome novissimus virorum. Sanctius saith, he was not numbered amongst men, he was so despised, that he was the lowest among the lowest of men, or the minimum quod sic of men, as it is, Ps. 22.6. A worm, no man, no body, not in the class or rank of men: He was in himself, the mighty God, the Prince of peace, more then above men and Angels, the chief of the kindred of men, the fairest among the sons of men, even at his lowest; but in regard of his low condition, he was made the off-scouring or the dross or refuse of all men, as if not a Christianed creature. When our Divines say, Christ ⟨p. 265⟩took our place, & we have his condition,1 Christ was made us, and made the sinner; It is true, only in a legal sense, as we say, the advocate is the client, or the guilty man; Because the advocate beareth his name and person, and what the accused man could in Law say before the Judge in his own defence, that the advocate saith for him; the advocate saith, I cannot in Law die for this crime, for such Reasons: So the surety in Law or in a legal substitution, is the broken man: