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Counsels on Health
Our petitions must not take the form of a command, but of interces-
sion for Him to do the things we desire of Him. When the church are
united, they will have strength and power; but when part of them are
united to the world and many are given to covetousness, which God
abhors, He can do but little for them. Unbelief and sin shut them away
from God. We are so weak that we cannot bear much spiritual prosper-
ity, lest we take the glory and accredit goodness and righteousness to
ourselves as the reason of the signal blessing of God, when it was all
because of the great mercy and loving-kindness of our compassionate
heavenly Father and not because any good was found in us.
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