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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.
Yea, the Law from the highest bended love, even from love with all the whole soul, and all its strength, Matth. 22. forbiddeth all sin, no less then the Gospel of love, which Gospel doth spiritualize the Law to the believer, but not abolish it: the Gospel addeth a new argument of Gospel-love, because Christ hath died for me, therefore I'll keep the same Law of God, I was under before, only now I fear no• actual condemnation which is accidental to the ⟨p. 273⟩Law, for Christ and the confirmed Angels keep the Law, as a rule of life, yet without any fear of actual condemnation; Nor doth the Gospel more make Davids adultery, not to be against the seventh Commandment to David, then it maketh the Israelites spoiling of the Egyptians of their Earrings & Jewels, to be no breach of the eight Commandment: The Grace of Christ doth Privilege the Believer from condemnation, which condemnation is a mere accident, which doth go and come without hurting the essence of the Law, and its commanding and eternal Moral-directing power: The Law saith (do and live) there's no exception of this, its the will of God eternal; as God is eternal, and obligeth us in Heaven, and for ever, Rev. 22.5. But this (if you do not, you shall die) hath a large exception; Christ my son shall die for you, and this (if you keep not the Law, you are condemned) to the believer is abolished, and when we are Rom. 7. said to be freed from our first husband, as the woman is freed by Law from her dead husband, and may without sin marry another, and we not under the Law, the word (Law) is taken only for the Law, as given to the sinner: Now the Law should have been Law, though sin had never been, and is Law to the Elect Angels who never sinned, and that is only the Law, under the notion of that sad office of eternal condemnation; the Law could never have been Law, except it had promised ⟨p. 274⟩eternal life to those who do the Law: but it both is, and should have been Law to believers in Jesus Christ, to the Elect Angels, and yet it doth not, it cannot actually condemn them.