'Also our Saviour used
thus to say to everyone who drew near to Him to be healed: According to thy
faith be unto thee. And when the blind man approached Him, He said to
him: Dost thou believe that I am able to heal thee? That blind man
said to Him: Yea, Lord, I believe. And his faith opened his
eyes. And to him whose son was sick, He said: Believe and thy son
shall live. He said to Him: I believe, Lord; help thou my feeble
faith. And by his faith his son was healed. And also when the
nobleman came near to Him, by his faith was his boy healed, when he said
to our Lord: Speak the word and my servant will be cured. And our
Lord was astonished at his faith, and according to his faith it happened to
him. And also when the chief of the synagogue requested Him concerning
his daughter, He said thus to him: Only firmly believe and thy daughter
shall live. So he believed and his daughter lived and arose.
And when Lazarus died, our Lord said to Martha: If thou believest, thy
brother shall rise. Martha saith unto Him; Yea, Lord, I believe.
And He raised him after four days. And also Simon who was called Cephas
because of his faith was called the firm rock. And again when our Lord
gave the sacrament of baptism to His apostles, He said thus to them: Whosoever
believeth and is baptized shall live, and whosoever believeth not shall be
condemned. Again He said to his Apostles: If ye believe and doubt
not, there is nothing ye shall not be able to do. For when our Lord
walked on the billows of the sea, Simon also by his faith walked with Him; but
when in respect of his faith he doubted, and began to sink, our Lord called
him, thou of little faith. And when the Apostles asked of our
Lord, they begged nothing at His hands but this, saying to Him: Increase our
faith. He said to them: If there were in you faith, even a
mountain would remove from before you. And He said to them: Doubt
ye not, lest ye sink down in the midst of the world, even as Simon when he
doubted began to sink in the midst of the sea. And again He said
thus; This shall be the sign for those that believe; they shall speak with
new tongues and shall cast out demons, and they shall lay their hands on the
sick and they shall be made whole.
Let us draw near then, my beloved, to faith, since its powers are so many. For faith raised up to the heavens (Enoch), and conquered the deluge. It caused the barren to bring forth. It delivered from the sword. It raised up from the pit. It enriched the poor. It released the captives. It delivered the persecuted. It brought down the fire. It divided the sea. It cleft the rock, and gave to the thirsty water to drink. It satisfied the hungry. It raised the dead, and brought them up from Sheol. It stilled the billows. It healed the sick. It conquered hosts. It overthrew walls. It stopped the mouths of lions, and quenched the flame of fire. It humiliated the proud, and brought the humble to honour. All these mighty works were wrought by faith.'
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