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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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Nor is it enough to say, That faith is only given for our joy and consolation, 1and not for the alteration and change of our state; that of unjustified we may be justified: For this layeth down these false grounds: 1. The believer is so •n every moment of time to rejoice, as he is never to sorrow for sin, nor to confess sin, because •ins were pardoned from all eternity; but so, neither after a soul believe, nor before he believe, is he to confess sins, or mourn for them; because both after and before, yea from eternity, sins are not at all, but removed in Christ. 2. It •ayeth down this ground, that we are justified no more by faith, then by the works done, by the saving grace of God after regeneration, •nd that Paul in the Epistle to the Romans •nd Galatians, does contend with justiciaries, •ow these who were from eternity justified, shall come to know and apprehend, for their •wn peace, joy, and consolation, that they were justified, and elected to glory; whether men •ay know this by faith in Christ, or by the ⟨p. 416⟩works of the Law. But 1. this is not the state of the question between Paul and the Justiciaries: For Rom. 3. Paul concludeth strongly, we are really and indeed changed from a state of sin, unto a state of justification, even before God; not because by keeping the Law we know we are justified, but because all have sinned, and are come short of the glory of God, and so are inherently wicked, abominable, doers of ill, and condemned therefore, before God, from Davids testimony, Psal. 14. Psal. 53. This Argument concludeth real and intrinsical condemnation, v. 19. not the knowledge of condemnation, nor the knowledge that we are not justified by the works of the Law,