Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Afflictions are trials of faith; faith is to be acted in and under them; often is faith shaken by them. Sometimes believing is strongest, when the believer is in greatest distress. But though this be a duty laid on all, it is not the attainment of all believers. But still affliction is an evil in itself, though the Lord turns it to good.
Robert Traill, Sixteen Sermons on the Lord’s Prayer, in John xvii. 24 (1705) in The Works of Robert Traill, A.M. Minister of the Gospel in London (4 vols, Edinburgh: J. Ogle, 1810), 2: 269.
Robert Traill, Sixteen Sermons on the Lord’s Prayer, in John xvii. 24 (1705) in The Works of Robert Traill, A.M. Minister of the Gospel in London (4 vols, Edinburgh: J. Ogle, 1810), 2: 269.