Preached upon Candlemas Day

              preached upon candlemas day MAT 9.2 92 92 AND IESUS SEEING THEIR FAITH SAID UNTO THE SICK OF THE PALSIEJ MY SON BE OF GOOD CHEAREJ THY SINS BE FOR- GIVEN THEE N THESE WORDS and by occasion of them we shall present to you I1thesetwogenerallconsiderations firstuponwhatoccasionchrist did that which he did and then what it was that he did and in the first we shall see first some occasions that were remote but yet conduce to the miracle it selfe some circumstances of time and place and some such dispositions and then the more immediate occa- sion the disposition of those persons who presented this sick man to christ and there we shall see first that faith was the occasion of all for without faith it is impossible to please god and without pleasing of god it is impossible to have remission of sins it was fides and fides illorum their faith all their faith for though in the faith of others there be an assistance yet without a personall personale personall faith in him selfe no man of ripe age comes so far as to the forgivenesse forgive nesse of sins and then this faith of them all was fides visa a faith that was seen christ saw their faith and he saw it as man it was a faith expressed and declared in actions and yet when all was done it is but cum vid vidit lidittt it is not quia lidit vidit christ did it when he saw not because he saw their faith that was not the principle and primary cause of his mercy for the mercy of god is all and above all it is the effect and it is the cause too there is no cause of his mercy but his mercy and when we come in the second part to consider what in his mercy he 1