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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.
4. The flesh in the justified cannot complain of indwelling sin; but the flesh mixed with some life of Christ, may raise a false Alarm of sins not pardoned, which are really pardoned; some false grief may and often hath its rise from a false and imaginary ground, as a sanctified soul may praise God through occasion of a lying report of the victory of the Church of God, when there is no such matter; a sanctified child may spiritually mourn for the supposed death of his Father, or that he hath offended his Father according to the flesh, when his Father is neither dead, nor offended at all: So gracious ⟨p. 279⟩affections, as gracious, may work spiritually upon supposed and false grounds when there is no cause; as that the soul hath grieved his heavenly Father, and that he is displeased, when it is not so.
4. The flesh in the justified cannot complain of indwelling sin; but the flesh mixt with some life of Christ, may raise a false Alaram of sins not pardoned, which are really pardoned; some false grief may and often hath its rise from a false and imaginary ground, as a sanctified soul may praise God through occasion of a lying report of the victory of the Church of God, when there is no such matter; a sanctified child may spiritually mourn for the supposed death of his Father, or that he hath offended his Father according to the flesh, when his Father is neither dead, nor offended at all: So gracious ⟨p. 279⟩affections, as gracious, may work spiritually upon supposed and false grounds when there is no cause; as that the soul hath grieved his heavenly Father, and that he is displeased, when it is not so.
5. Sin indwelling is a greater evil, then the feared evil of ten hells; and therefore there is more cause of sorrow for sin, confession, disquietness of spirit, after justification then before; because sin the only true object of fear and disquietness of spirit, is both a guest dwelling in the soul, and is more really and distinctly apprehended as a spiritual evil, after the light of faith hath shown us the sinfulness of sin, then ever it was discovered to be before.