Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

physicians: “Furthermore then we beseech you,
brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as
ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to
please God, so ye would abound more and more....
For this is the will of God, even your
sanctification.” 1 Thessalonians 4:1-3. “As ye have
therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk
ye in Him: rooted and built up in Him, and
established in the faith, as ye have been taught,
abounding therein with thanksgiving. Beware lest
any man spoil you through philosophy and vain
deceit, after the tradition of men, after the
rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”
Colossians 2:6-8.
Physicians are placed where peculiar
temptations will come to them. If they are not
prepared to withstand temptations by the practice
of the principles of truth, they will fall when Satan
tempts them. There are ministers of the gospel who
are too weak to resist temptation. They may have
long preached the gospel, and with marked
success; they may have won the confidence of the
people, but when they think they are strong, they
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