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A57982	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.	Rutherford, Samuel, 1600?-1661.	1652 (1652)	Wing R2397A; ESTC R203460	278,378	498

be grace Grace is not only singly in the Saints but Grace and peace must be multiplyed on them 4. The standing and prorogated intercession and advocation of Jesus Christ every day upon occasion of new committed sins 1 Joh. 2.1 2. and the golden Altar that hath been hot these 1600. yeers Rev. 8.3 4. with the fresh prayers of the Saints must have a daily use so long as Christ is in the Office of the great true and exalted high Priest now passed into the holy of Holiest and better it is that Christ act Grace again and again in heaven as we sin again and again on earth then that the act of our high Priests intercession had been all but one act on the Cross and the way to heaven was made long and falls there must be in the way to the end that I might lodge many nights and moneths by the way with my guide Christ and my expences and charges in the way might be free-Grace 5. Faith hath its work in our graduall mortification wee beleeve that Christ shall perfect what he hath begun so it was needfull that Winter and moneths of Spring and Summer go before our harvest and reaping of the fruits of the tree of life 6. Christ works in the lower kingdom as making the higher kingdom the copy and samplar of his working now it s most sutable for flowers and roses that must be transplanted to grow up in the high garden beside the tree of life and to blossome out glory for all eternity that they grow for a time in the land of Grace that they may take kindly with the soil so the lower and higher gardens of Glory and Grace differ not in nature what groweth in the one can wel grow in the other they cannot suit with the happinesse of that land except they have experienced the holinesse of continued Grace in this land and Christ maketh storms of sin to blow upon his young heirs for their Winter God keeping life at the root that they may be fitter for an eternally green flourishing Summer of Glorie and when Christ consecrated himself through many afflictions that he might be an heir suitable for Glory he being brought through fire and water hot and cold and many changes to heaven and so came to eternall happinesse through many yeers continued holinesse it was not fit that Christ who was to make heirs like his rule and samplar should bring them to glory with a leap and a step from a justified condition to a glorified estate without an intervening progresse in sanctification and holinesse Christ understandeth well the fundamentall Laws of the higher City the new Jerusalem the frame of the government of that kingdom is that none be received as free Citizens of Glory but such as have served Apprentices Minors little children under Tutors to Grace and the way of holinesse he is of too short standing who cometh hot and smoking out from his lusts a justified sinner to step immediatly into Glory and so here is a stranger welcomed to heaven from hell a childe of Satan playing at the Devils fire side yesterday or the last hour now this day this same very hour must be inrolled amongst those who walketh with the Lamb in white Some Souldiers I grant are advanced to be high Commanders Per saltum by a leap but it s for some piece of rare service to the Prince and State and its like the repenting Theef in few hours space had been in three severall Kingdoms in the state of Nature the Kingdom of Darknesse and the Kingdome of Grace and that day with Christ in Paradise But this is I conceive rare and give me leave to say Princes at their Coronation do some extraordinary acts of Grace by priviledge of the new Crown that they may hansell the new Throne with acts of Mercy Christ was now in an act of pure unmixed Grace actually and formally redeeming the lost world on the Crosse and was now this day crowned by his Mother the Church and installed King-Redeemer of Saints and therefore would hansell Paradise with a sinner by a priviledge of matchlesse Grace there is but one example of it in all the Scripture 7. The way to heaven is sweeter that it should be here Nulla dies sine Linea that every day and hour that we sin as every hour we contract new debt Christs free Grace might have its daily flux the fountain opened to the house of David daily running renewed forgiveness going along with this day our daily bread hence these noble acts of Grace 1. Every sin the least omission by Law is hell Deut. 27.26 Gal. 3.10 two sins must be two hells seven sins seven hells then multiplied sins to the number of the hairs of Davids head Psal. 40.12 and not sins only but innumerable iniquities must cause the account of Christs free Grace to swell and arise to a deliverance from two from seven from innumerable hells O Grace every day every hour So then the Rebell brought nine times a day twenty times a day for the space of fourty yeers by his Princes Grace from under the ax how fair and sweet are the multiplied pardons and reprivals of Grace to speak so Here is multitudes of multiplied redemptions here is plenteous redemption I defile every hour Christ washeth I fal Grace raiseth me I come this day this morning under the reverence of Justice Grace pardoneth me and so along while Grace put me into heaven The Lambs Book of life containeth not onely the names of those who are ordained for that blessed end of eternall life but also the means leading to the end then here are written all the sins al●●he pardons of free Grace since the first Adam sinned O but the Book of life must be a huge Volume O how large and broad and long must the Accompts of the Grace of Christ be 2 We are not saved compleatly because justified but Rom. 8.23 We are expectants of the Divinity of immediate vision groan within our selves waiting for the Adoption the Redemption of our body v. 24. and are saved by hope In regard of Title we are saved compleatly but in another sense we are but Lords and Kings in Title only we are far from the Lands Rents Crown and our fathers house and so are not saved while our feet stand within the streets of the new Jerusalem 3. In this consideration we sigh in our fetters and bolts and sin remaineth in us for our exercise and humiliation that we may have an habituall ingagement to Iesus Christ and his Grace that soul loveth much to whom much is forgiven and especially when in sense and frequent experiences much and multiplied backslidings are forgiven Obj. 1. But justification is one indivisible act of Grace pardoning all sins past present and to come and is not a successive and continued act in progresse alwayes such as is sanctification for we are but once justified I answer by these following Assertions Asser. 1. There is a

of bones is nothing but half a hell in the spirit is a whole hell The upper hell the grave to Ezekiah is like to swallow him up when dipped in the lower hell and covered with the apprehension of wrath O sweet Jesus what a mercy that thou swallowed up all hels to believers and calmed the sea of hell Vse If in Justification sins be blotted out cast in the depths of the Sea and removed as if they never had been the state of Justification must be a condition of sound blessednesse the most desireable life in the world Ro. 4.6 Even as David also describeth the blessednesse of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousnesse without works 7. Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered For consider 1. What an Act of Grace it is in a Prince to take a condemned malefactour from under the ax the rack the wheel and so many hours torture before he end his miserable life Or 2. Suppose he were condemned to be tortured leisurely and his life continued and prorogated that bones sinues lights joynts might be pained for twenty or thirty years so much of his flesh cut off every day such a bone broken and by Art the bone cured again and the flesh restored that he might for thirty years space every day be dying and yet never die Or 3. Imagine a man could be kept alive in torment in this case from sleep ease food clothing 500. years or a 1000. years and boiling all the time in a cauldron full of melted lead say the soul could dwell in a body under the rack the wheel the lashes and scourges of Scorpions and whips of iron the man bleeding crying in the act of dying for pain gnawing his tongue for ten hundred years now suppose a mighty Prince by an act of free grace could and would deliver this man from all this pain and torture and give him a life in perfect health in ten hundred Paradises of joy pleasure worldly happinesse and a day all the thousand years without a night a summer all this time without cloud storm winter all the honour acclamations love and service of a world of men and Angels cloath this man with all the most compleat delights perfections and vertues of minde and body set him ten thousand degrees of elevation to the top of all imaginable happinesse above Solomon in his highest Royalty or Adam in his first innocencie or Angels in their most transcendent glory and happinesse Yea 4. In our conception we may extend the former misery and pain and all this happines to the length of ten thousand years this should be thought incomparably the highest act of grace and love that any creature could extend to his fellow-creature And yet all this were but a shadow of Grace in comparison of the love and rich Grace of God in Christ in the justification of a sinner 2. Consider we are freed from the guilt of sin in justification Now this is the eternall debt of sin that remaineth after sin that none can wash away but Christ and that this remaineth after sin is acted 2. That it remaineth for eternity 3. That it is a misery we are onely in justification delivered from is cleare in Scripture 1. Because sin is a debt After the borrowed money is spent and gone somewhat in Law and justice remaineth and this is debt or obligation to make payment to the Creditour 2. So the Scripture speaketh Jer. 2.22 For though thou wash thee with Nitre and take thee much sope yet thy iniquity is marked before me Borith is an hearb that Fullers use for washing and purging yet is sin such a Leopard-spot that no Art no industry of of the creature can remove it Jer. 17.1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron and the point of a diamond it is graven upon the table of their heart and the horns of your Altars There is writ remaining after sin is acted 2. Writ written with a pen of iron and diamond to endure for eternity 3. Not written onely but ingraved and indented upon the conscience 1 Sam. 24.5 When David rent the rob of Saul his heart smote him so that it left a hole or the mark of the stripe behinde it as when a burning iron is put on the face of an evill-doer it leaveth behinde it a brand or a stigma 2. This is terrible that this brand is eternall as the Prophet prayeth Psal. 109.14 Let the iniquities of his fathers be remembred with the Lord and let not the sin of his mother be botted out 15. Let them be before the Lord continually O dreadfull The sins of wicked men shal stand up in heaven before the justice of God so long as God shal live and that is for ever and ever So the Lord sweareth By the excellency of Jacob That is by himself Amos 8.7 Surely I will never forget any of their works Joh. 10.8 All that ever came before me all that came not in by me the Door and the Way they are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theeves and Robbers The false Prophets many of them were dead yet being dead saith Christ this day they are in regard of guilt Theeves and Robbers To this day above sixteen hundred years the Jews are guilty murderers though their fathers who slew the Lord of glory be dead This day Cain is a murderer Judas a traitour and shall be so long as GOD shall live and be GOD Now without shedding of Christs blood there is no remission of sins Heb. 9.22 To be delivered from eternall debt and intituled to an eternall Kingdom is a life most desireable maketh the sinner to stand in the books of Christ as the eternally ingaged debtor of Grace Young Heirs know your blessednesse aright sinners under eternall debt you laugh sport rejoice and you are firebrands of wrath you go singing and shaking and tinckling your bolts and fetters of black and unmixed vengeance Alas how can you sleep How can you laugh and sing Eat the crums The dogs desire but the least and to speak so the refuse of Christ. Doct. The meanest and worst things of Christ to speak so are incomparably to be desired above all things 1. Any thing of Christ is desirable but to lay hold on the skirt of a Jew Zac. 10.23 Because Christ that is with him is good Yea the dust of Zion is a thing that the servants of God take pleasure in Psal. 102.14 The dust and stones of Zion are not like the earth and the mules of the holy grave as Papists fondly dream and are but earth but because the Lord Christ dwelleth there therefore are they desirable The people carried their old harps to Babylon with them and Iosephs bones must be carried out of Egypt to Canaan Why Canaan was Christs land his dwelling Why but we are to love the ground that Christs feet treadeth on This I say not that I judge it holy earth that is

16.6 I said to thee when thou wast in thy blood live This Mandate of omnipotent grace is spoken to Jerusalem as hardened and cold dead in sin Eph. 5 14. Wherefore he saith Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light This is a Commandement of omnipotency given out of sinfull rebellion If Omnipotence say See ye blind hear ye deaf Grace is a King over sin and omnipotency a mighty Conqueror Rebellion cannot stand before the grace of God could we resigne Rebellious and dead hearts to God he should change them though we be most unable to master them 2. Meer-nothing is a servant to omnipotency he sendeth his mandate or statute of heaven to meer-nothing and Darknesse as the Sergeant and Pursevant of GOD must send out Light by vertue of a creating Mandate 2 Cor. 4.6 3. Every creature is under the awe of Omnipotency and dare not without as it were a written and signed Ordinance and Statute of the Almighty exercise their naturall operations As the Lord sendeth an awfull mandate to the Sea and God saith Do not ebbe and flow and the sea is dried up at his rebuke Psal. 77.16 The waters saw thee O God the Waters saw thee they were afraid So saith he Winds blow not Seas rage not fire burn not Lyons devor not Sun move not Clouds rain not Devils hurt not Waters overwhelm not Sword destroy not and they all obey 4. There is a power obedientiall in creatures to be instruments that can be elevated above and contrary to their nature to miracles as clay to be a plaster to blinde eyes to make them see whereas clay can put out seeing eyes by this Iron can swim Peter walk in the Sea yea devils men crossing Gods Morall wil fulfill his eternall Counsell according to that Ps. 119.91 All are thy servants Hell Devils Gavaliers Malignants Papists are Gods servants 5. By this power where as nature must have time and hours to work yet nature followeth the swift pace of omnipotency the Fever departeth from Peters mother in Law in an instant 6. By this power creatures creep into nothing when God commandeth them so to do God putteth his arm to the Heaven and shaketh it and the Hangings Pillars Walls plenishing of the house of Heaven and earth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are all dissolved all the old Tenants of the world the Heavens which have sitten in Gods house 5000 years at the first warning of their Almighty Land-lord must remove and retire into nothing if God so command them Vse 1. It is comfort to the believer all things are possible Faith hath omnipotency at its service the sword and wars are gone the enemies of the Lord broken the Temple built Babylon plagued at the nod of Faith Devils cannot stand when Christs Mandate chargeth them to fall Vse 2. It is but little that we can do let us have Hosts of men we cannot have the victory Let man be swift yet the Race is not to the swift let him be strong Yet the battell is not to the strong let him be wise and learned Neither is bread to the wise nor yet riches to men of understanding Eccles. 9.11 1. The word of the Almighty is his deed also Psal. 33.9 He spake it was done he commanded and it stood fast 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For he himself spake and it was The Lords word giveth being to things by the contrary mens deeds are nothing but words so the lives being and actions of the Kings of Israel and Iudah are called Dibre hajamim words of dayes They are the acts and deeds of men living and dying and compassed with dayes for the deeds and acts of men are but words they live and speak a little on earth and die their acts are of as little worth and reality as the airing out and breathing forth of words The greatest Prince maketh a sound for a time as one that speaketh words and then he is gone and lyeth silent in the grave Solomon did many acts but they are called words only 1 Kin. 11.41 And the rest of the acts of Solomon Hebrew The rest of the words of Solomon Are written in the Books of the Acts Hebrew Of the words of Solomon 2 Kin. 21.25 And the rest of the words which Amon did are written in the Book of the words of the days of the Kings of Judah We use not properly to do or act words but to speak words but the holy Language maketh man and all his noble acts but words and would expresse that he is a creature of no great action and can say more then he can do Strong and mighty man is but a creature of words he is a speaking body of clay and can do but little We boast much that this and this we shall do God hath a lock and a chain of Iron on all the creatures Armies are not to be feared the Lord smites the horse and the rider maketh war to cease unto the end of the earth he breaketh the bow and cutteth the spear in sunder he burneth the Chariot in the fire Psal. 46.9 Be not afraid of clay Esay 51.12 Vse 3. If the Lords word create the being of things then are we to conceive of him as of an Independent Soveraigne we forget this and worship a Dependent God If I suffer the people to go to worship at Jerusalem saith Jeroboam I shall lose both life and Kingdom God had promised the contrary to establish him and his Kingdom so he would do what is right in the sight of the Lord 1 Kin. 11.37 38. But he believed that God in the fulfilling of his promise must depend upon the Calves set up at Dan and Bethel So the Jews will have God in the preserving of their Kingdom and place Joh. 11.48 to depend upon the sinfull murthering of the Lord of Glory yea we imagine that God cannot carry on the work of Reformation except we comply with some sort of Antichristian Prelate The King thinketh he cannot be a Monarch except he have a Prerogative to play the Tyrant and his Throne must fall except the Antichrist and blood and unlawfull peace with the bloody Irish murtherers and destroying of the Lords Redeemed flock in both Kingdoms be the bloody Pillars of his Throne and Royall power So God cannot save us if France Denmarke Spain and Ireland come against these Kingdomes we are so wasted except we make a Peace dishonourable to Jesus Christ and his prerogative Royal all this is to place God in a state of Dependency we are too wickedly carefull how God shall acquit himself in his office of Governing the world ere you or I were born the Lord governed the world and his Church without a miscarry the Churches Heaven cannot be marr'd in Christs hand and when we are rotten in the dust he shall carry on all in righteousnesse and wisdom but we take it ill if we cannot have a providence as