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despised. But many who should be strong in faith have but a small
measure of it, because they either give way to sin, or are not careful to
improve what God has already given.
To get an increase of faith is to get an increase of every grace which
constitutes the mind which was in Jesus, and prepares fully for the
enjoyment of the kingdom of God.
He that has faith will get through every difficulty and perplexity;
mountains shall become mole hills, or plains, before him.
Unbelief and disobedience are so intimately connected, that the same
word in the sacred writings often serves for both.
Why are not our souls completely healed? Why is not every demon
cast out? Why are not pride, self-will, love of the world, lust, anger,
peevishness, with all the other bad tempers and dispositions which
constitute the mind of Satan, entirely destroyed? Alas! it is because we do
not believe; Jesus is able; more, Jesus is willing; but we are not willing
to give up our idols; we give not credence to his word; therefore sin hath
a being in us, and dominion over us.
Many, by giving way to the language of unbelief, have lost the
language of praise and thanksgiving for months, if not years.
There would be more miracles, at least of spiritual healing, were there
more faith among those who are called believers.
How is it that faith is so rarely exercised in the power and goodness of
God? We have not, because we ask not: our experience of his goodness
is contracted, because we pray little, and believe less. To holy men of old
the object of faith was more obscurely revealed than to us, and they had
fewer helps to their faith; yet they believed more, and witnessed greater
displays of the power and mercy of their Maker. Reader, have faith in
God; and know that to excite, exercise, and crown this, he has given thee