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Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

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lusts than they are to healthy bodies, sound minds,<br />

or sanctified hearts....<br />

The Lord, by close and pointed truths for these<br />

last days, is cleaving out a people from the world<br />

and purifying them unto Himself. Pride and<br />

unhealthful fashi<strong>on</strong>s, the love of display, the love<br />

of approbati<strong>on</strong>—all must be left with the world, if<br />

we would be renewed in knowledge after the image<br />

of Him who created us. “For the grace of God that<br />

bringeth salvati<strong>on</strong> hath appeared to all men,<br />

teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly<br />

lusts, we should live soberly, righteously and<br />

godly, in this present world; looking for that<br />

blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the<br />

great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave<br />

Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all<br />

iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people,<br />

zealous of good works.” Titus 2:11-14.<br />

To a Brother<br />

Said the angel, “Abstain from fleshly lusts<br />

which war against the soul.” You have stumbled at<br />

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