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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.
the surety saith, The debt is mine, all the wants, all the poverty, all the debts and burdens of my broken friend, be on me, and the rich surety having paid all, can say, I have paid all, I am in Law free, my friend and surety hath done all, and paid all for me; and that is as good in foro, in the Court of justice, as if I had paid in my own person all; for the truth is, there be not two debts and two bonds, and two sums, nor two debtors, the broken man, and the Surety are in Law but one person, one party indebted, which of them pay, it is all one to Law and justice: it is all one sum they owe: The Believer in Christ is put in Christs Law-place, and Christ by Law is put in his place; Christ made Surety, saith: I am the sinner, O justice, all my broken friends wants, all their debts be upon me, my life for their life, my soul for my brethren's souls, my glory, my heaven for my kinsmen's glory and heaven: The Laws bloody Band was the curse of God ⟨p. 266⟩upon the sinner, upon the debtor: Christ changed bands and obligations with us, and putteth out our name, and putteth in his own name in the bloody Band; and where the Law readeth, the curse of God upon the debtor: Christ is Assigned to this Band, and the Gospel readeth it, the curse of God upon the rich Surety, Gal. 3.13. Hear then the boldness of Faith: Now then there's no condemnation to those that are in Jesus Christ: What challenges Satan or conscience can make against the Believer (for justice being put to silence by Christ, maketh none) hear an answer: I was condemned, I was judged, I was crucified for sin, when my Surety Christ was condemned, judged and crucified for my sins: and what would you have more of a man then his life? it was a mans life and soul, my life that my surety offered up to God for sin, and I have payed all, because my surety hath payed all. And the truth is, it is not two debts, one that the believer owes to Gods justice, & another that Christ paid: But the debt that Christ payed is our very debt & sins which he did bear on his own body on the tree, 1 Pet. 2.24. But though it be true in a legal sense, that the surety is the broken man; yet it is true, only in regard of the Law punishment, or Malum poenae, the ill of punishment, that is laid upon him: For I take Dr Crisps words from his own pen; Suppose (saith he) a Malefactor should be asked, Guilty, or not guilty? He answereth, Not