Robert Traill (Stedfast Adherence to the Profession of our Faith), Works 3:70:
Faith and God’s faithfulness are relatives; they are necessarily related one to another. There were no use for divine faithfulness declared, no promise in time had been made, unless for some that should believe, John 17:20; there were no use in this world for faith, if there were not some appearance of divine faithfulness for faith to act upon. God’s faithfulness is revealed on purpose that it may be believed. Faith is given on purpose that divine faithfulness may be trusted in, and rested on, and applied. They relate one to another as necessarily as the eye and light do, and these are mighty like. If God had created creatures with eyes, and colours, or any other visible things, and no light to see by, it might be said, Wherefore gave he them eyes? The case is just so here: All the breakings forth of divine faithfulness are for faith’s sake, that it may work upon it; and all the giving of faith is for faithfulness sake, that it may act upon it.
Faith and God’s faithfulness are relatives; they are necessarily related one to another. There were no use for divine faithfulness declared, no promise in time had been made, unless for some that should believe, John 17:20; there were no use in this world for faith, if there were not some appearance of divine faithfulness for faith to act upon. God’s faithfulness is revealed on purpose that it may be believed. Faith is given on purpose that divine faithfulness may be trusted in, and rested on, and applied. They relate one to another as necessarily as the eye and light do, and these are mighty like. If God had created creatures with eyes, and colours, or any other visible things, and no light to see by, it might be said, Wherefore gave he them eyes? The case is just so here: All the breakings forth of divine faithfulness are for faith’s sake, that it may work upon it; and all the giving of faith is for faithfulness sake, that it may act upon it.
