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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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2. Another case is, that many have an absolute, loose, and lax peace and calmness, great confidence of deliverance from Eternal wrath; and so of a supposed pardon, whose peace is convinced to be but a base outside, and mere paintry and fairding because there is in them no ⟨p. 278⟩storm for sin as sin, and for the over-motions of boiling lusts; no tenderness to walk spiritually. A Faith that eateth out the bottom and bowels of conscience, of declining sin and walking with God: is the justification of the Antinomians, of the old Gnostics, of the natural men: all our professors are cured, none or few are healed.
2. Another case is, that many have an absolute, loose, and laxe peace and calmnesse, great confidence of deliverance from Eternall wrath; and so of a supposed pardon, whose peace is convinced to be but a base outside, and meer paintry and fairding because there is in them no ⟨p. 278⟩storm for sin as sin, and for the over-motions of boiling lusts; no tendernesse to walk spiritually. A Faith that eateth out the bottome and bowels of conscience, of declining sin and walking with God: is the justification of the Antinomians, of the old Gnosticks, of the naturall men: all our professors are cured, none or few are healed.
3. Full assurance that Christ hath delivered Paul from condemnation: yea, so full and real, as produceth thanksgiving and triumphing in Christ, Rom. 7.25. Rom. 8.1, 2. may, and doth consist with complaints and outcries of a wretched condition, for the indwelling of the body of sin, Rom. 7.14, 15, 16.23, 24. Then the justified that are whole, not sick, not pained, are yet in their sins, and not justified, what ever Antinomians say on the contrary.