Genesis 20:17

So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare [children].

Ver. 17. So Abraham prayed unto God, and God healed Abimelech.] Here was that of St James verified, "The prayer of faith shall save the sick; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him". Jam 5:15 So he is healed on both sides. The story of Luther is well known, how by his prayers he recovered Theodorus Virus of a consumption, after the physicians had given him up for dead. a The saints are God's favourites; they may have anything of him. Sejanus found Tiberius so facile, that he needed only to ask, and give thanks. b He never denied him anything, and ofttimes anticipated his request. What shall we think of God's goodwill to his faithful servants and suppliants?

a Melch. Adam. in Vita Luther.

b Life of Sejanus, by P. M., p. 5.