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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.
But 2. This bridge over the water between the kingdom of darkness, 1and the state of saving Grace, hath no necessary connection with that Kingdom of the Son of Gods love, but such as it hath from the sole and mere decree of the free Election of Grace, and therefore many Reprobates may enter the Bridge, and never go along to the other Bank of the River: God breaketh the Bridge, this being the very division and parting of these two unsearchable ways of Election and Reprobation, yet so as the sin in cutting the bridge is the guilt of the Reprobate man: As many births die in the breaking ⟨p. 314⟩forth out of the womb, divers Roses in the Bud are blasted and never see harvest, through the fault of the seed, not of the Sun.
But 2. This bridge over the water between the kingdom of darknesse, 1and the state of saving Grace, hath no necessary connexion with that Kingdom of the Son of Gods love, but such as it hath from the sole and meer decree of the free Election of Grace, and therefore many Reprobates may enter the Bridge, and never go along to the other Banke of the River: God breaketh the Bridge, this being the very division and parting of these two unsearchable wayes of Election and Reprobation, yet so as the sin in cutting the bridge is the guilt of the Reprobate man: As many births die in the breaking ⟨p. 314⟩forth out of the womb, divers Roses in the Bud are blasted and never see harvest, through the fault of the seed, not of the Sun.
- 1There's no necessary and intrinsical connection between preparations going before faith & faith.There's no necessary and intrinsecall connexion between preparations going before faith & faith.