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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.
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. Col. 1.20, 21. Eph. 2.16. Man is the enemy, whereas in Adam he was a friend, and in Christ the second Adam he is made a friend: but that God is reconciled to man or changed toward his own Elect from an enemy and a God that hateth their persons into a friend and lover of them, I never read, if at any time God be said to be comforted toward his people, or eased, these are borrowed speeches: 2. Love of Election; yea, the love that putteth God on work to Redeem, Call, Justify, Sanctify the Elect is no love bought with hire; yea, the price of Redemption, which Christ gave for sinners, cannot buy eternal love; blood, and the blood of God shed cannot woodset ancient love, all the sins of Devils, of men cannot forfeit it, make sins, floods and seas, and ten thousand worlds of rivers, they cannot quench that eternal coal and flame in the breast of so free a Lover as God, in a word,3 the shed blood of Christ is an •ffect, not a cause of infinite love. 3. What •hen, doth reconciliation place any new thing in God? No, Doth it turn him from an Hater to a Lover? No, Reconciliation active on the Lords •art, is a change of his outward dispensation, not •f his inward affections: Fury is not in me, he •ith himself,