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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.
Use. If in Justification, sins be blotted out, cast in the depths of the Sea, 1and removed, as if they never had been, the state of Justification must be a condition of sound blessedness, the most desirable life in the world, Ro. 4.6. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works. 7. Blessed are they whose iniquities ⟨p. 281⟩are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. For consider 1. What an Act of Grace it is in a Prince to take a condemned malefactor from under the axe, the rack, the wheel, and so many hours torture, before he end his miserable life. Or, 2. Suppose he were condemned to be tortured leisurely,2 and his life continued and prorogated, that bones, sinews, lights, joints might be pained for twenty or thirty years; so much of his flesh cut off every day, such a bone broken, and by Art the bone cured again, and the flesh restored, that he might for thirty years space, every day be dying, and yet never die. Or, 3. Imagine a man could be kept alive in torment in this case, from sleep, ease, food, clothing, 500. years, or a 1000. years, and boiling all the time in a cauldron full of melted lead; & say the soul could dwell in a body under the rack, the wheel, the lashes and scourges of Scorpions, and whips of iron, the man bleeding, crying, in the act of dying for pain, gnawing his tongue, for ten hundred years; now suppose a mighty Prince, by an act of free grace, could and would deliver this man from all this pain and torture, and give him a life in perfect health, in ten hundred Paradises of joy, pleasure, worldly happiness, and a day all the thousand years without a night, a summer all this time, without cloud, storm, winter, all the honour, acclamations, love, and service of a world of men and Angels, clothe this man with all the most complete ⟨p. 282⟩delights, perfections, and virtues of mind and body, set him ten thousand degrees of elevation, to the top of all imaginable happiness, above Solomon in his highest Royalty, or Adam in his first innocency, or Angels in their most transcendent glory and happiness. Yea, 4. In our conception we may extend the former misery and pain, and all this happiness to the length of ten thousand years, this should be thought incomparably the highest act of grace and love, that any creature could extend to his fellow-creature: