What does that mean? How can I tell you?

This I can tell you, that it cannot mean that Jesus Christ was
merciful enough to heal people's bodies at first, but that He has
given up doing it now, and will never do it again. "Well, but," some
would say, "what does all this come to? You are merely telling us
what we knew before--that if any of us are cured from disease, or
raised up from a sick bed, it is all the Lord's doing." If you do
believe that, really, my friends, happy are you! Many of you, I
think, do believe it. The poor are more inclined to believe it, I
think, than the rich. But even in the mouths of the poor one often
hears words which make one suspect that they do NOT believe it. I am
very much afraid that a great many have got into the trick of saying
that it was God's mercy that they were cured, and that it pleased the
Lord to raise them up from a sick bed, very much as a piece of cant.
They say the words by rote, because they have been accustomed to hear
them said by others, without thinking of the meaning of them; just
as, on the other hand, a great many people curse and swear without
thinking of the awful oaths they use. Ay, and often enough the very
same persons will say that it was the Lord's mercy they were cured of
their sickness; and then, if they get into a passion, pray the very
same Lord to do that to the bodies and souls of their neighbours
which it is a shame to speak of here. Out of the same mouth proceed
blessings and cursings: showing that whether or not they are in
earnest in cursing, they are not earnest in blessing.

Again: If people really believed that it was the Lord Jesus Christ
who cured their sicknesses for them, they would behave, when they got
well, more as the Lord Jesus Christ would wish them to behave. They