And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.
Ver. 16. And they could not cure him] The prayer of faith would have healed the sick,James 5:15, as Luther's prayer recovered a godly divine (that was far gone in a consumption, and given up for a dead man by the physicians) beyond all expectation. Iste vir potuit quod voluit, Such a man as that was able because he was willing, man saith one of him. That man by the force of his faith could do whatsoever he would with God. Fiat mea voluntas, " Let my will be done," said one in his prayer; and then sweetly falls off, "my will, Lord, because thy will," and he had his request. But let not the unbeliever "think that he shall receive anything of the Lord," James 1:7, since he shuts heaven gates against his own prayers; and by the evil operation of a misgiving heart, denies them before he presents them.