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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.
It layeth down this false ground, that grace is nothing in us, but a mere comfortable sense, and apprehension of Free-love, and Grace is conceived to be only and wholly in Christ, so that there is no inherent grace in the Believer, by which he is differenced from an unbeliever, sanctification and duties flowing from the habit of grace, are nothing but dreams of Legal men; Christ justifying the sinner is all and some in the Elect: strict and precise walking, conduce nothing to salvation: To think that it can do any thing in order to salvation is to worship (saith Mr. Den) an angry deity. 2. To satisfy justice with our works, fasting, tears, duties. Therefore our
It layeth down this false ground, that grace is nothing in us, but a meer comfortable sense, and apprehension of Free-love, and Grace is conceived to be only and wholly in Christ, so that there is no inherent grace in the Believer, by which he is differenced from an unbeliever, sanctification and duties flowing from the habit of grace, are nothing but dreams of Legall men; Christ justifying the sinner is all and some in the Elect: strict and precise walking, conduce nothing to salvation: To think that it can do any thing in order to salvation is to worship (saith Mr. Denne) an angry deity. 2. To satisfie justice with our works, fasting, tears, duties. Therefore our
16. Propos. Is, that it is a vain distinction of ⟨p. 419⟩Master Den, 2who would have a reconciliation of God to man, and of man to God. 1. Because we read that man is reconciled to God, Rom. 5.10. 2 Cor. 5.18, 19, 20.