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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.
for then all those actions shall be resolved in the same principles and formal reason of moral performance of them, in the believer, as in the Carnal man, in whom a natural spirit is stirsman; and then we do but in these actions, Walk in the light of our own fire, and the sparks that we our selves have kindled, and shall not see to go to bed, but lye down in sorrow, Isaiah 50.11. But we are to ⟨p. 320⟩set Faith as the Plummet and line to Regulate these actions to do them. 1. Because he who hath bought us with a price, commandeth us by the light of nature. 2. And the light of Faith is to moderate us in eating, drinking, sleeping, according to Christian sobriety, in the measure of the action. 3. Faith teacheth us not to eat, that we may eat, or for an natural or civill end. Grace hightneth the natural intention, to a supernatural end, and to do all these for God and his service 1 Cor. 10.31. And whatsoever we do (though but civil service as servants to earthly masters in a civill calling, in trading in arts) we are to do all as to the Lord, not unto men, Col. 3.23. Then Christ acting & moving by the light of Faith, is the formal reason and principle in which lastly and formally (ultimate) all our actions are resolved. 2. Look of how much worth and price thy soul is; of as great necessity is Faith, except thou wouldst look for the Gospel-vengeance, the day or the ages of Eternal vengeance at Christs appearance, 2 Thes. 1.8. Isa. 61.2. Joh. 3.18.36. chap. 8.24. But if it be so that Faith is required in all that I do, the business of Salvation (may some say) is hard and difficile work: Where shall I have Faith for every stirring of my foot? I Answer, as all our actions, except where Imagination is Principle of the act, must be deliberate, and so the actions of a rational man, so must they be moral; now there is no morality in a ⟨p. 321⟩