Excerpt from A Preservative Against Popery, in Several Select Discourses Upon the Principal Heads of Controversy Between Protestants and Papists, Vol. 8: Being Written and Published by the Most Eminent Bibines of the Church of England, Chiefly in the Reign of King James II
I say then, that the prayer of faith always prevailed that when the presbyters anointed the sick with oil, and asked his health in the name of Christ, they were assured of the event; that the sick person was at that time healed, and that the Lord raised him u but that they asked not this in behalf of the sick, without t e of the Divine Spirit, by which they were acted. And therefore Bellarmine might have that seruple; that very few believers must have died Apostles' da 8, if the unction and the prayer of faith is to be referred to t e recovery of bodily health.
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