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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.
even as the sinner is condemned, and under wrath, but never while he mis-believe, and reject the Son of God. But 4. if the meaning (that Christ is the Lamb slain for our sins from eternity) be, that he is §4slain only in Gods purpose, then are we no more justified and pardoned from eternity, and so before ⟨p. 414⟩we believe, then the world was created from eternity. Now in the Antinomian sense, as we are justified by faith, that is, we come to know that we were in Gods mind actually justified; Then it may be said, The world was created by faith: For Heb. 11.2. Through faith we understood that the world was created; and God laid our sins upon Christ by faith: and Christ died for us, and bare our sins, on his own body, on the tree, by faith: For, by faith, we come to know that God made the world; but because the knowledge and apprehension of the creation (may some say) is not a point serving for peace of conscience, and Christian consolation, which yet is false, (every point of saving faith is apt to breed peace and consolation) yet certainly we came to know and apprehend that God laid our sins upon Christ by faith, Isa. 53.6. and that Christ died for us, and bare our sins on his own body on the tree by faith, and by faith only, to our peace and consolation; and so, if justification by faith be nothing but the manifestation of Gods love to us in imputing our sins to Christ, and have no subordinate organical act in our justification, but we be justified before we believe, and that from eternity, upon the very same ground, God created the world by faith, Christ died for our sins by faith. 5. Yea, in this sense the world must be created from eternity, and all things which fell out in time fell out in eternity, because as Christ was the Lamb ⟨p. 415⟩slain from eternity, in Gods eternal purpose, so were all things, and the world created from eternity in Gods purpose and decree, but things that only have being in the decree of God, are not simply, nor have they any being at all; and therefore our free justification from eternity had no being, but only was to be, and actually is, when God giveth us faith to lay hold on the remission of our sins.