1. Divine healing is not medical healing. It does not come to us through medicines, nor is it God's especial blessing on remedies and means. It is the direct power of the Almighty hand of God Himself. "Himself took our infirmities"... We have nothing to say against the use of remedies so far as those are concerned who are not ready to trust their bodies fully to the Lord... We cheerfully admit that their remedies have some value as far as they go. There is some power in man's attempts to stop the tides of evil that sweep over a suffering world. But there comes a point in all efforts when we have to say, "Thus far shalt thou go and no further." Yet no one ought rashly to give up these human helps until they have got a better one. Unless they have been led to trust Christ entirely for something higher and stronger than their nature life, they had better stick to natural remedies. They need to be sure that God's Word distinctly presents healing for disease, and it does it as definitely as it does forgiveness of sin.
-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel
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