Robert Traill (Stedfast Adherence to the Profession of our Faith), Works 3:15-16:
If God hath kindled this heavenly fire of faith, and of the hope of the gospel, in any of your hearts, it will break forth one way or other. They with whom you live will know it; your faith will break out sometimes in your tongue; and it will appear, for as modest, and secret, and bashful as the person is, that there is something of heavenly fire working in him. This now is the constant practice of all nations and all people, and the Christian is not to be exempted from this common necessity; every sort of people in the world make a profession of what their faith and hope is: All people, says the prophet, will walk every one in the name of his god, though they be false gods, and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever, Micah 4:5. Shall a worshipper of Baal be more bold and confident in professing of an idol god than Jehovah’s worshippers? We will walk in the name of the Lord our God; we will go up and down, professing and declaring, in all prudent and fit ways, our respects to him.
If God hath kindled this heavenly fire of faith, and of the hope of the gospel, in any of your hearts, it will break forth one way or other. They with whom you live will know it; your faith will break out sometimes in your tongue; and it will appear, for as modest, and secret, and bashful as the person is, that there is something of heavenly fire working in him. This now is the constant practice of all nations and all people, and the Christian is not to be exempted from this common necessity; every sort of people in the world make a profession of what their faith and hope is: All people, says the prophet, will walk every one in the name of his god, though they be false gods, and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever, Micah 4:5. Shall a worshipper of Baal be more bold and confident in professing of an idol god than Jehovah’s worshippers? We will walk in the name of the Lord our God; we will go up and down, professing and declaring, in all prudent and fit ways, our respects to him.
