Beddome.
TRIAL.
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts.—Psalm cxxxix. 23.
The trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.—I. Peter, i. 7.
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you.—I. Peter, iv. 12.
Lest our trial, when least sought,
May find us both perhaps far less prepared.
Milton.
Within our life these sorrows we contain