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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
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2. To warrant an unworthy humble sinner to believe there's no need of a positive Warrant,§2 or of a voice to say (thou art elected to glory, therefore believe) the word is near thee in thy mouth; yea there is a commandment laid upon the humbled sinner (Come O weary and loaden sinner to Christ, and be eased) Now when the wind bloweth sweetly and fair upon an humbled sinner, who is elected to glory, there goeth the Spirit of the Gospel along with this Commandment; and the word of Commandment, and the spirit united in one, acteth ⟨p. 340⟩and worketh so upon the soul, that the humbled sinner cannot be deluded and led on a rock of presumption; for this spirit joineth and closeth with his spirit, and he as one of Christs sheep, knoweth this to be the voice of Christ. I grant when the same command of faith cometh to the ears of a Reprobate, he may upon a false ground believe, or rather presume: he neither being rightly humbled, and fitted for Christ, nor can the Reprobate know and discern the wind of the spirit, breathing with the command, and acting upon his spirit, because that wind neither can, nor doth breath upon any Reprobate, and there is no need of any positive Warrant to ascertain a child of God to believe, beside the commandment of Faith in lived and quickened with the spirit going along with it, for that command so quickened doth put such a real stamp of an evident testimony, that he hath claim to Christ, on whom the spirit and the command doth so act, that he seeketh no more any other evidence to prove his claim to Christ, then the Lamb needeth any evidence to prove, that of ten hundred sheep, this only that offereth to it her paps and milk must be its dam or mother, and none of the rest of the flock: But how do I know that it is the spirit that goeth along with the Commandment of believing? It may be a delusion. Ans. Beside that, a deluding spirit for the most part, doth not go every way along with the word: If this spirit keep ⟨p. 341⟩Gods order, to work upon the humbled & self-despairing sinner, who is willing to receive Christ upon his own condition, it is not like to a deluding spirit; for if the word of commandment to believe, and the spirit agree in one, it cannot be a delusion, fancy leadeth no man to Faith. 2. When objects of life work upon life, they cannot deceive, especially all the senses, Hearing, Seeing, Tasting, Feeling, Smelling: