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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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Object. 3. But then Adam yet sinless was to believe weakness and sin in himself, before he sinned. Ans. Not so, but he was to have that which by Analogy answereth to sense of sin, that is a sinless consciousness and solicitude,1 that if God should withdraw his stirring and predeterminating influence of corroborating him to will and to do, (you may call it Grace) he should fall, and that legs in Paradise without actual assistance, could not actu secundo, bear the bulk and weight of Adams connatural and constant walking with God, that Adam might know, before he was a debtor to justice, that he had need of mercy, or the free goodness of a surety, such as Jesus Christ, to prevent debt, no l•sse then to pay debt, even as Angels are ⟨p. 356⟩debtors to Christ their head,2 for Redemption from all possible sins, no less then we are (though the degrees of altitude of Grace varieth much) the obliged underlings of such a bountiful Landlord, for Redemption from actual misery.
Object. 3. But then Adam yet sinlesse was to believe weaknesse and sin in himself, before he sinned. Ans. Not so, but he was to have that which by Analogie answereth to sense of sin, that is a sinlesse consciousness and solicitude,1 that if God should withdraw his stirring and predeterminating influence of corroborating him to will and to do, (you may call it Grace) he should fall, and that legs in Paradice without actuall assistance, could not actu secundo, bear the bulk and weight of Adams connaturall and constant walking with God, that Adam might know, before he was a debtor to justice, that he had need of mercy, or the free goodnesse of a surety, such as Jesus Christ, to prevent debt, no l•sse then to pay debt, even as Angels are ⟨p. 356⟩debtors to Christ their head,2