“I know no true religion but Christianity.
I know no true Christianity but the doctrine of Christ: of His divine person, (the image of the invisible God, Col. 1:15.); of His divine office, (the Mediator betwixt God and men, 1 Tim. 2:5.); of His divine righteousness, (He is the Lord our Righteousness, Jer. 23:6) and of His divine Spirit, (which all that are His receive, Rom. 8:9.)
I know no true ministers of Christ, but such as make it their business, in their calling, to commend Jesus Christ, in His saving fulness of grace and glory, to the faith and love of men.
I know no true Christian, but one united to Christ by faith, and abiding in Him by faith and love, unto the glorifying of the name of Jesus Christ, in the beauties of gospel-holiness.
Ministers and Christians of this spirit, have for many years been my brethren and companions, and, I hope, shall ever be, whithersoever the hand of God shall lead me.
May the Lord, of the harvest, who ministered this seed to the sower, make it bread to the eater, and accompany it with His blessing on some that are called to inherit a blessing, and I have my end and desire.
The reader shall have the benefit and the Lord shall have the glory: for from Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things, to Him be glory forever. Amen.
LONDON,
ROBERT TRAILL.
March 25, 1696.”
–Robert Traill, “Sermons Concerning the Throne of Grace (Hebrews 4:16),” The Works of Robert Traill, vol. 1 (Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1810), 1: ix–x.
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