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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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and at that time the Lord could not utter that expression of love, to say to a bloody and polluted Church as he doth, Can. 4.7. Thou art all fair, my love, there is not a spot in thee; now could it be said, that the Father and the son loveth such a Church, as such as loveth the Father, and keepeth the words of the Son, as it is, Joh. 14.21.23. what the Church was not fair, not spotless; but filthy, polluted, not washed, ⟨p. 407⟩not justified as yet; and though it be true, that faith procure not Gods love and favour (it is a calumny that ever Protestant Divine taught any such thing) for the work of Gods eternal love in election to Glory, or his hatred in reprobation, is not the yesterday or the days-birth of our faith, or our unbelief, yet that believing, or our effectual conversion maketh no alteration or change in our state before God, is a gross untruth; Faith and conversion maketh indeed, No change of any state in the ancient of days, in the strength of Israel, who cannot lie or repent, and putteth not God from the State of a Reprobating or hating, or a not loving and choosing God, whereas before he was such, who did love and choose us to salvation, (the Lord is our witness) we asserted the contrary doctrine of Free-grace against Arminians and Papists.
and at that time the Lord could not utter that expression of love, to say to a bloudy and polluted Church as he doth, Can. 4.7. Thou art all fair, my love, there is not a spot in thee; now could it be said, that the Father and the son loveth such a Church, as such as loveth the Father, and keepeth the words of the Son, as it is, Ioh. 14.21.23. what the Church was not fair, not spotlesse; but filthy, polluted, not washed, ⟨p. 407⟩not justified as yet; and though it be true, that faith procure not Gods love and favour (it is a calumnie that ever Protestant Divine taught any such thing) for the work of Gods eternall love in election to Glory, or his hatred in reprobation, is not the yesterday or the daies-birth of our faith, or our unbelief, yet that believing, or our effectual conversion maketh no alteration or change in our state before God, is a grosse untruth; Faith and conversion maketh indeed, No change of any state in the ancient of days, in the strength of Israel, who cannot lie or repent, and putteth not God from the State of a Reprobating or hating, or a not loving and choosing God, whereas before he was such, who did love and chuse us to salvation, (the Lord is our witnesse) we asserted the contrary doctrine of Free-grace against Arminians and Papists.