"In regard to the hidden virtue and secret excellence of them:
The Body and Quantity of a pearl is small, but the virtue
and power of it are great. So the gospel seems small and
contemptible, but it is the power of God to salvation.
And faith in the gospel draws virtue from Christ to open blind eyes;
to cure all spiritual diseases;
to raise from death in sin;
to drive away devils and break the force of temptation.
All the pearls between heaven and earth
do not have such power. Only faith, as small as a grain
of mustard see, draws virtue from Christ.
And grace, even if ever so little (if sound),
it has the power to open blind eyes
and to carry the saints along to the salvation!"
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