John Trapp on Matthew 17:16

Verse 16. And they could not cure him] The prayer of faith would have healed the sick, Iam. 5. 15. as Luthers prayer recovered a godly Divine (that was far gone in a [illegible: 1 word], and given up for a dead man by the [illegible: 1 word]) beyond all expectation. Iste vir potuit quod voluit, saith one of him. That man by the force of his faith, could doe whatsoever he would with God. Fiat mea voluntas, Let my will be done, said one in his prayer: and then sweetly falls [illegible: 1 word], My will, Lord, because thy will, and he had his request. But let not the unbeleever [illegible: 1 word] that he shall receive any thing of the Lord, Iam. 1. 7. sith he shuts heaven gates against his own prayers; and by the evil operation of a misgiving [illegible: 1 word], denies them before he [illegible: 1 word] them.