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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.
4. Its an ordinary challenge made by Satan,1 conscience, and the Arminian, since Christ died not for all and every one of mankind; and all are not chosen to life eternal, but only those, on whom the Lord is pleased, according to the free decree of Election to confer the grace of believing. What warrant can the unworthy sinner have to believe, and to own the merits of Christ? For he knoweth nothing of the Election, or Reprobation that are hidden in Gods eternal mind: for Answer,
4. Its an ordinary challenge made by Satan,1 conscience, and the Arminian, since Christ died not for all and every one of mankinde; and all are not chosen to life eternall, but only those, on whom the Lord is pleased, according to the free decree of Election to confer the grace of believing. What warrant can the unworthy sinner have to believe, and to own the merits of Christ? For he knoweth nothing of the Election, or Reprobation that are hidden in Gods eternall minde: for Answer,
- 1The 4. point concerning faith to wit the warrants of believing.The 4. point concerning faith to wit the warants of believing.
11. Its no presumption in me to believe in Christ before I know whither I be chosen to salvation or not, for nothing can hinder me in this case to believe, save only presumption as the adversaries say, but it is not presumption, because presumption is when the soul is lifted up, and Towered like an high building, as the word is, Hab. 2.4. And therefore the lifted up man, [Greek or Hebrew] Gnophel, is he that hideth himself in a high Castle;