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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.
6. The sixth Ingredient in Faith is,1 that the sinner can lay hold on the Promise. 1. Not simply, but with relation to the precept; for presumptuous souls plunge in their foul souls in fair and precious promises, and this is the Faith of Antinomians, for the promise is not holden forth to sinners as sinners, but as to such sinners, for we make Faith to be an act of a sinner humbled, wearied, laden, poor, self-condemned; now these be not all sinners, but only some kind of sinners. Antinomians make faith an act of a lofty Pharisee, of one vile person, applying with an immediate touch, immediato contactu, his hot boiling, & smoking lusts to Christs wounds, blood, merits, without any conscience of a precedent Commandment, that the person thus believing, should be humbled, wearied, loaden, grieved for sin. I confess this is hasty hot work, and maketh Faith a stride, or one single step; but its a wanton, fleshly, and a presumptuous immediate work to lay hold on the promises of ⟨p. 332⟩mercy and be saved: This is the absolute and loose Faith, that Papists and Arminians slandereth our Doctrine withal, because we reject all foregoing merits, good works, congruous dispositions, preparations moving God to convert this man, because he hath such preparations; and to reject and to leave another man to his own hardness of heart, because he hath no such payment in hand, by which he may redeem and buy conversion, and the grace of Effectual calling; especially, they building all upon a Babel of their own brick and clay, that free-will in all acts of obedience before or after conversion, is absolutely indifferent to do, or not do; to obey, or not obey; to choose Heaven and life, hell or death, as it pleaseth, as being free and loosed from all Predetermination, and fore-going motion, acting or bowing of the will, coming either from Gods natural or his efficacious or supernatural Providence. And so the Papist and Arminian on the one extremity, enthroneth nature, and extolleth proud merit, and abaseth Christ and Free-grace: The Familist, Libertine, and Antinomian, on a contrary extremity and opposition, turn man into a block, and make him a mere patient in the way to Heaven;
6. The sixt Ingredient in Faith is,1 that the sinner can lay hold on the Promise. 1. Not simply, but with relation to the precept; for presumptuous souls plunge in their foul souls in fair and precious promises, and this is the Faith of Antinomians, for the promise is not holden forth to sinners as sinners, but as to such sinners, for we make Faith to be an act of a sinner humbled, wearied, laden, poor, self-condemned; now these be not all sinners, but only some kinde of sinners. Antinomians make faith an act of a lofty Pharisee, of one vilde person, applying with an immediate touch, immediato contactu, his hot boiling, & smoking lusts to Christs wounds, blood, merits, without any conscience of a precedent Commandement, that the person thus beleeving, should be humbled, wearied, loaden, grieved for sin. I confess this is hasty hot work, and maketh Faith a stride, or one single step; but its a wanton, fleshly, and a presumptuous immediate work to lay hold on the promises of