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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.
3. There must be self-forsaking in believing. 1. An affirming, and an (ay) to grace, is a negation and denial to it self, 1 Cor. 15.10. I laboured more abundantly then they all; Yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me: To deny that you are Christs, or that you have any grace, (if Christ have any thing of his in you) is not self-denial, but grace denial, and God-denial, ⟨p. 328⟩deny the work of the spirit, and deny himself. Its a saying of humility, Cant. 1.5. I am black, and of Faith, but comely as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. And Cant. 5.1. I slept, but my heart waked. Its Faith to hold fast your state of adoption: Lord, I am thine. 2. When our self maketh a suit to self, and putteth in a bill to the flesh. O pity thy self. Rejoice, O young man in thy youth. Its self-renouncing to deny this request to the flesh: And Faith only can give an answer to self-declining the cross. He that denieth me before men, him will I deny before my Father and his holy Angels (saith Christ.) And another answer Faith giveth, Rom. 8.12. I am not debtor to thee, O flesh. I owe thee nothing. And its Faiths word of answer, Eccles. 11.9. But know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee unto judgement. 3. Faith putteth the soul in that condition, that self may be plucked from self, without great violence, as an apple full of the tree, and of harvest-sap, is with a small motion plucked off the stalk, Act. 21.13. I am ready [Greek or Hebrew], I have my self in readiness, not only to be bound, but also to dye at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. Certainly Faith saw here more in Jesus of excellency and sweetness, then there could be of bitterness in bonds and death to self.
3. There must be self-forsaking in believing. 1. An affirming, and an (ay) to grace, is a negation and deniall to it self,