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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.
1Obj. 4. But God is so essentially good to all, as he must communicate his goodness by way of Justice, in order to free obedience, and that is life Eternal to those who freely believe and obey. Ans. But the great Enemy of Grace, Ja. Arminius teacheth us, that all the freedom of Grace, Rom. 9. is resolved in the free pleasure of God, in which he freely and without hire, purposed to reward Faith, not the works of the Law with life Eternal; whereas it was free to him to keep another order, if so it should seem good to him, and by this means God is yet freely, and by an act of pure grace not essentially good to all, even in communicating his goodness, by way of Justice: For what God doth by necessity of his nature and essence, that he cannot but do, but sure it is, by no necessity of nature, doth the Lord reward works, faith, or any obedience in us with the Crown of life Eternal: He may give heaven freely without our Obedience at all, as he giveth the first Grace freely, Eze. 16.6, 7, 8. Rom. 5.10. Ephes. 2.3, 4, But this is surer, the fewer have Grace, Grace is the more Grace, and the more like it self and free.
1Obj. 4. But God is so essentially good to all, as he must communicate his goodnesse by way of Justice, in order to free obedience, and that is life Eternal to those who freely beleeve and obey. Ans. But the great Enemy of Grace, Ja. Arminius teacheth us, that all the freedom of Grace, Rom. 9. is resolved in the free pleasure of God, in which he freely and without hire, purposed to reward Faith, not the works of the Law with life Eternall; whereas it was free to him to keep another order, if so it shuld seem good to him, and by this means God is yet freely, and by an act of pure grace not essentially good to all, even in communicating his goodnesse, by way of Justice: For what God doth by necessity of his nature and essence, that he canot but do, but sure it is, by no necessity of nature, doth the Lord reward works, faith, or any obedience in us with the Crown of life Eternal: He may give heaven freely without our Obedience at all, as he giveth the first Grace freely,