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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.
We are sinners in the judgement of Law, both sin dwelling in us, and 2. the guilt of the Law lying on us to condemnation: But being once in Christ, and justified, we remain sinners, as touching the indwelling blot, but we are not sinners, as we are justified in Christ, as touching the Law-obligation to eternal condemnation, from which we are fully freed. But the justified and redeemed of Christ remain as formally and inherently sinners, as Milk is formally white, a Raven black: Justification removeth not the indwelling of sin, and so in regard of sense, reason, and conscience, we are sinners to our dying day, but not condemned sinners. M. Den objecteth; We pray daily, forgive us our sins, then we are not righteous in Christ; he answereth, that Protestants say,1 we beg greater certainty and assurance of forgiveness; but not content with this answer, he addeth, When we pray for forgiveness, we magnify his grace, who hath freely given us forgiveness, it were not folly to a condemned person, having received a pardon, and being assured of it, to fall down and say, Pardon me my Lord the King. Ans. What Protestant Divines say in this, we acknowledge; but if we seek only a fuller certainty of forgiveness in this Petition, and not also the application of the general pardon, as appropriated to the sins we daily fall in; I see no other thing we seek, ⟨p. 404⟩but a greater measure of faith to lay hold on remission: I should ask a warrant of Scripture to prove that forgiveness of sin signifieth assurance of the pardon of sin. 2. That to seek forgiveness daily is, to glorify and magnify him from whom we once received forgiveness, is not to purpose, for that is a general in all Petitions that we put up to God, no less then in this. 3. If a pardoned malefactor having assurance he were pardoned, should fall down and beg pardon of the King, and not rather tender him thanks and blessings, for a received pardon; I should believe he called in question the Kings favour; but should he every day, when he eateth bread, beg pardon from the King, as we beg daily forgiveness, he might be charged with more then ordinary folly.2 M. Den; God loves us in blood (saith he) and pollution, as well before conversion, as after conversion: and though faith procure not Gods love and favour, yet it serveth us for other uses, that we may be sealed by believing,