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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.
Christ the corner stone, though there was no sin in him, yet before he was made the chief corner stone, he was by death hammered, Act. 4.10.11, 12. And much more, the strokes and smiting of the Cross must knock down all the superfluity of naughtiness, and every height, till by smoothing and chipping, the child of God be made a stone in breadth, length, proportion, smoothness, some way conform to the first Copy, and to Christ the sampler-stone. There ⟨p. 32⟩is a fourth reason, but its a controverted one, the justified person may be afflicted for sin, some teach that this is Popery to affirm, that the justified bear the punishment of their sin, because Christ only was wounded for our iniquity, and did bear in his own body our sins on the Tree, therefore (say they) respect seemeth to be had (as one speaketh) to sin, 1not principally, but secondarily and occasionally, not as it offendeth God, (who by that one sacrifice is for ever pacified, Heb. 10.14. Mat. 3. but as it offendeth and diseaseth the minds of the faithful; not that afflictions simply, properly, and immediately do ease quiet, and cure the conscience (for their natural effect is to deject and terrify, as appendixes of the Law) but that they awaken and stir up our dullness to a lively apprehension of Christs Righteousness, and so while God as a Father correcteth for sin, sin hath not properly with God the nature of sin, which is an offence of Divine justice; 2But is considered as a disease troubling his child, which in love, and in pity he seeketh to make riddance of, in manner aforesaid, and not in anger and displeasure.
Christ the corner stone, though there was no sin in him, yet before he was made the chief corner stone, he was by death hammered, Act. 4.10.11, 12. And much more, the stroakes and smiting of the Crosse must knock downe all the superfluity of naughtinesse, and every height, till by smoothing and chipping, the childe of God be made a stone in breadth, length, proportion, smoothnesse, some way conforme to the first Copy, and to Christ the samplar-stone. There