The answer.
How prooue you that this was not the faith of the lame man? Forsooth he looked for nothing but almes. At the first he did not. What then? Nay he looked not for almes when they had told him that they had neither gold nor siluer to giue. But as he cast away the expectation of almes, so did he gréedily imbrace the gift of health, offered him in the name of Iesus Christ. And this is the faith which Peter héere speaketh of. If Peters hearers had so vnderstood the matter as you take it, they might haue conclu∣ded, that they néeded not beléeue: other mens faith might make them safe,* 1.1 as it did this man. How happened it that the lame man of Lystra néeded his owne faith to be saued or healed? Was not Pauls faith as good as Peters, if a man might be healed by another mans faith without his owne? The residue of your note is a riddle. For what is Christian religion? Is it not the imbra∣cing