And let us first say with him in the gospel,
"I believe, good Lord, but help thou the lack of my belief." And
afterwards, let us pray with the apostles, "Lord, increase our
faith." And finally, let us consider, by Christ's saying unto them,
that, if we would not suffer the strength and fervour of our faith
to wax lukewarm--or rather key-cold--and lose its vigour by
scattering our minds abroad about so many trifling things that we
very seldom think of the matters of our faith, we should withdraw
our thought from the respect and regard of all worldly fantasies,
and so gather our faith together into a little narrow room. And
like the little grain of mustard seed, which is by nature hot, we
should set it in the garden of our soul, all weeds being pulled out
for the better feeding of our faith. Then shall it grow, and so
spread up in height that the birds--that is, the holy angels of
heaven--shall breed in our soul, and bring forth virtues in the
branches of our faith. And then, with the faithful trust that
through the true belief of God's word we shall put in his promise,
we shall be well able to command a great mountain of tribulation to
void from the place where it stood in our heart, whereas with a
very feeble faith and faint, we shall be scantly able to remove a
little hillock.
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