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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 we are hence led to find out resolution for divers cases of consciences after justification.1 1. Many dare not question their state of justification, & so are freed from the storms of apprehended wrath, arising from the guilt of sin: yet there is another storm, within the bowels of the Sea, arising from the indwelling of the body of guilt, the storm before justification is less free, less ingenuous, more servile, as looking to that Eternal wrath, hanging over the soul for unpardoned sin: this is more free, and is a peaceable, a gracious, and heavenly storm raised, not for sin unpardoned, & the Eternal punishment thereof: but for sin as sin, as indwelling, not for the penal guilt and the sting of Hell in sin, but for the sinful guilt and the wounding of Christ. 2. Its unpossible this latter storm can be in the soul, till the sentence of justification be pronounced; as none can have the moved bowels of a son, for the offence of a Father, till he be a son.
But we are hence led to finde out resolution for divers cases of consciences after justification.1 1. Many dare not question their state of justification, & so are freed from the storms of apprehended wrath, arising from the guilt of sin: yet there is another storm, within the bowels of the Sea, arising from the indwelling of the body of guilt, the storm before justification is lesse free, lesse ingenuous, more servile, as looking to that Eternall wrath, hanging over the soul for unpardoned sin: this is more free, and is a peaceable, a gracious, and heavenly storm raised, not for sin unpardoned, & the Eternal punishment thereof: but for sin as sin, as indwelling, not for the penall guilt and the sting of Hell in sin, but for the sinfull guilt and the wounding of Christ. 2. Its unpossible this latter storme can be in the soul, till the sentence of justification be pronounced; as none can have the moved bowels of a son, for the offence of a Father, till he be a son.
- 1Eight cases of conscience resolved from the former doctrine.