Robert Traill (Stedfast Adherence to the Profession of our Faith), Works 3:75:
We many times sinfully crave props of sense to support our faith; but the matter indeed is to support the promise; therefore we would fain that God should give something to support us. All this, like Naaman, 2 Kings 5, is unbelief. We must lay all our weights and burdens upon the faithfulness of God: so says dying David, 2 Sam. 23:5, Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure; for this is all my salvation, and all my desire. As if David, in his last words, had left this his legacy to all believers in after ages, that now when a dying man, “I have,” says he, “seen a great deal of sin and wickedness in my family, in my heart and life, and in the land of Israel: in the cases of Uriah, Absalom, Amnon, Tamar, Adonijah; but I now die satisfied with this only, He hath made with me an everlasting covenant, etc. Here is all my salvation, and all my desire.”
We many times sinfully crave props of sense to support our faith; but the matter indeed is to support the promise; therefore we would fain that God should give something to support us. All this, like Naaman, 2 Kings 5, is unbelief. We must lay all our weights and burdens upon the faithfulness of God: so says dying David, 2 Sam. 23:5, Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure; for this is all my salvation, and all my desire. As if David, in his last words, had left this his legacy to all believers in after ages, that now when a dying man, “I have,” says he, “seen a great deal of sin and wickedness in my family, in my heart and life, and in the land of Israel: in the cases of Uriah, Absalom, Amnon, Tamar, Adonijah; but I now die satisfied with this only, He hath made with me an everlasting covenant, etc. Here is all my salvation, and all my desire.”
