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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.
Now though it be true, that in Law the Debtor and the Surety be both one Legal person,1 yet intrinsically they are not one, the broken Debtor as such may be an unjust man, and the Surety a faithful and just man; so that the surety, as a satisfying Surety, removeth only the punishment due to the Debtor for his unjustice; but he removeth not formally unjustice, except he be such a Surety as Christ, who can both pay the debt, & so remove the ill of punishment, and also infuse holiness, and sanctify and remove the evil of sin; hence in justification formally, Christ only taketh away the punishment of everlasting fire, and eternal condemnation due to sin; but he removeth not sin it self; sin it self is removed in sanctification, and by degrees; justification taketh the sting out ⟨p. 268⟩of the Serpent, but doth not formally kill the Serpent; the Serpent is killed by another act of Grace, by infused and perfected sanctification; justification is a forinsecal and a Legal Act, and removeth the power of the Law, which involveth the sinner in a curse: Now the strength or the Legal sting of sin is the Law, 1 Cor. 15.56. So we may judge how false this divinity is, which Dr. Crisp asserteth: You will never (saith he) have quietness of spirit in respect of sin, till you have received this principle, that it is not the guilt of Iniquity only, but Iniquity it self that the Lord laid on Christ; For it is true, quietness and Peace of Faith with God floweth from justification, Romans 5.1. And the assurance that Christ hath pardoned sin, and hath removed the penal guilt, the punishment of Eternal condemnation from sin, but that the conscience should be quiet; that is, that it should not have also a care to believe that Christ will sanctify throughly, and perfect his good work in us, is most false; for though a soul be justified and freed from the guilt of Eternal punishment, and so the spirit is no more to be afraid and disquieted for Eternal wrath and Hell, which should never have been feared as the greatest evil, in regard that sin as sin is more to be feared then Hell as Hell; yet there be two other acts of disquietness of spirit laudable and commendable, even in the Saints after they are justified; and the guilt of