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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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the motion of saving Grace, is Christs heart wheeled about by it self, and by no foreign cause without it self: Love worketh as Love without bud or bribe from Men or Angels. Grace is both wages and work, the race and the gold to it self. 2. God delights to have men and Angels his debtors. Grace holdeth an open and a free Inn, with all the dainties that Christ can make, to all comers and goers, for nothing but thanks ⟨p. 353⟩and heartily welcome: Grace maketh no gain of my work. The sweating of Angels, and of the Thousand Thousands that sing up the glory of Christ before the high Throne, is no income to Christs Rent: Grace should not be Grace, if it could Traffic, or buy, or sell with a creature. Angels and men stand in the Books of Free-grace for Millions of borrowed sums. Christs blood and deep love may be praised, but never recompensed: Christs love hath filled this world and the new Paradise with debtors; and Angels can neither read, nor sum, nor cast up the Accounts of Free-grace.1 3. That we cannot be masters of one good act, without his preventing Grace evidenceth what nature is, and maketh Grace both my staff and my convey in at Heavens Gates; Nature and Free-will must stoop and do homage to CHRIST. There's a Glory active, and a Glory passive, as there's also Grace active and passive, Free-will is active under Grace, and passive also, & therefore Grace and Mercy, is to the Saints, and upon the Saints; Nature emptieth its lamp upon the golden pipe, the rich Grace of the Mediator, and Free-will moveth and runneth, but not but as moved, driven, and breathed upon by Free-grace: But as concerning Glory, it hath a more eminent and noble relation; Glory shall be on the Saints as a garment, as a Crown, for they shall be glorified: But no Glory to the Saints, but only, only to the Lamb, to the flower ⟨p. 354⟩of the Glory of Glory, Jesus the Celebrious, Eminent, most high and adored Prince of the Kings of the earth; and therefore there's room and place left for sin and shame to Free-will in the business of praedeterminating grace, that nature can but sigh and sin, and Grace sing and be spotless and innocent: Christ so draweth, as we sin in not being drawn; Christ so taketh and allureth, that it is our guilt that we are not taken and overcome with the smell of the Kings Ointments: