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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
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But they are to sorrow for offended love; for the body of sin breaking out in scandals, I may then have peace with God, in the assurance of remission and removal of eternal wrath; and yet not have peace with my own conscience: 1. Because I may be persuaded ⟨p. 276⟩that God in Christ hath forgiven me; yet am I not to forgive my self: 2. I am to believe that in Christ I am delivered from eternal wrath, and justified in Christ; and yet to sorrow that I have sinned against Christs love: 3. I may have peace, sense of peace, and Pardon in Christ, and yea a necessary disquietness, sorrow, and tears, that I should have been so unthankful to so lovely a Redeemer: so Christ doth commend the woman's tears, as a sign of love, and of the sense of many sins pardoned, Luke 7.44.1 Thou gavest me no water for my feet: But she hath washed my feet with tears: yet many sins were forgiven her, v. 47. Hence, I may 1. Believe the Remission of that sin, for which I am to sorrow, and for the Remission of which I am to pray, and which I am to confess: Nathan said to David, thy sin is pardoned: yet the Spirit of God after that both confessed, sorrowed, prayed for pardon in David: 2. We may comfort those that mourn for sin, from assurance of Pardon, and yet exhort them to be humbled and afflicted in spirit, and to confess, sorrow, and pray for Pardon; so Antinomians rejoicing evermore after justification, without sorrow, remorse, down-casting for sin at all, is but fleshly wantonness: I may have and ought to have a disquieted spirit, and no peace with my self, and yet peace with God, even as the Sea after a storm, and when the winds are gone and the Air is calmed, hath yet a raging and ⟨p. 277⟩great motion, by reason of wind enclosed in the bowels of the Sea, and after the cool of a mighty Fever, yet are the humours in the body stirred and distempered.
But they are to sorrow for offended love; for the body of sin breaking out in scandals, I may then have peace with God, in the assurance of remission and removall of eternall wrath; and yet not have peace with my own conscience: 1. Because I may be perswaded ⟨p. 276⟩