John Trapp on Matthew 17:20

Verse 20. Because of your unbelief] q. d. That's the naked truth of it, never deceive your selves: there's no [illegible: 1 word] will serve turn: be content (hard though it be) to hear your own. Veritas aspera est, verùm amaritudo ejus utilior, & integris sensibus Joh S de [illegible: 1 word] Curialium, lib. 3. cap. 6. gratior, quàm meretricantis [illegible: 1 word] distillans favus. A smart truth takes better with an honest heart, then a smooth supparasitation. If ye have faith as a grain of, &c.] The Disciples might object, If no faith, but that which is entire and perfect can do such cures as this, then we may despair of ever doing any. [illegible: 1 word] Saviour answers, that the least measure of true faith (fitly compared to mustard-[illegible: 1 word], for it s acrimony and vivacity) if exerted and exercised, will work wonders. Neither is justifying faith beneath miraculous in the sphear of its own [illegible: 1 word], and where it hath warrant of Gods Word, to remove mountains of guilt and grief. A weak faith is a joint [illegible: 1 word], though no faith can be a joint purchaser of sins remission: And a man may have faith enough to bring him to heaven, though he want this or that faith, as to rely upon God without failing, Luk 18. 1, 8. without feeling, Psal. 22. 1, &c. as resolved, that God neverthelesse will hear him, in that very thing [illegible: 2 words] for.