PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Pulpit Commentary — Revelation
Alfred Plummer [1841-1926] · 535,750 words · 528 reading sections
The Pulpit Commentary — Revelation — Section 61
and the Fonrth Gosl'81 and the Second martyrdom of St. Polycarp draws to &cl.oat Epistle; we_ have a similar constmction in with these words : "Having by his ~t~o, John i. 24; vii. 40: xvi.17; 2 Jolin 4. (For vanquished the unjust ruler, and ~ving a we.rning of like import. but to the per- thus received tJie croum of i…
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had a clt18ter or temples to. Zl:\U8, Apol,lo, death. 11ie silence of ChtU"Oll, _history ~- A~eni;. Dionysus, Ap~rodite, &;id 1Escu- epec~g ,a martyr thus honoJ~i:e<l"in B,crip- lap11!&;. _These aU lay together m a beau- ture 18 ~trange. .Attalus. one .of, .the tiful ~ e called the Nicephorium, the chief martyrs of Lyo…
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deal ·cont~. aµd ~nnot, he dtiterzoined 64.7), they proe~iiut4,d:·the~ iiulue~ tq,iji_e. with,.~rtainty;. but the gen~l .sense, is seducing pt' Gad'•. peoyle ,1~. idolat,Jy, apil clll&l: · · In any case, "iµy witnellS, my faith- impurity. The sin:iilarityo(this doc~~ with ful Qn&». (Revised -:Veniion), ill more,accu…
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more in number: compare 'lfJ\.efo1111 0'7//u'la. Authorized Ve:rsion, be me.de to depend upon Toil-rm11 (John vii. 81): 1rAeEo11a lffl/l'll'OJI (John "thou sufferest." For the conatruotion ri/11 xv. 2) ; sJl.•W1111 6ut1l1111 (Heb. xi. 4). But -yu11al/CCI 'lE(a,B-qJ\. ;, Jl.t-youua, oompare -riir both excellence and nu…
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neBB (Matt. viii. 6, 14 ; ix. 2 ; Mark vii. 80). the reius and the heart ( comp. Rom. But perhaps we should rather compa.re such vu1. 27; Ps. vii. 9; Jer. xi. 20; .u. 12). expressious as " oost in to prison, into the But lpuvtfv in this connexion, is a New sea,, into the fire, into Gehenna" (Matt. xviii. Testament word…
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SO~!i . ~hat " dee~ '! was a favourite ex- been coll/-mended (ver.. 19)., -OolJl.p. eh., iii. p ~ . of t_heirs wtth regard to ihe know- 11, where a similar charge iii. giv;en t.o the. ledge which they rrofessed. " The Valen- Ch;urch , at, Phi!11,del~hia. ~e. Gt~\_.for tini&QS have formed Eleusinian orgies, con- "µ11 I …
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Lamb Bhepherding his &aints, and in John authority from me, 88 I also have received ui. 16 in the oharge to St. Peter to shep• from my Father (oomp. John xvii 18; u. herd Christ'& sheep. It is not easy t.o deter• 21 : Luke ::ai.i. 29 : Acbl ii. 83). mine whether the " rod" (/l#l3os) is a king's Ver. 28,-1 will give mm …
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the time of receiving these letters, substituted a temporary by a permanent officer, there are no data to enable na to affirm. Can we not well imagine the interest and excitement of the people, when the leader of their worship opened a roll-prefacing, perchance, the reading thereof by saying, "Our loved Apostle John, w…
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or later receive from. Ohrist IIOJlle stern reminder of its sin. " I "Will come unto thee." ·,, The iime is come that judgment must begin at the house of God:"· 2.· If the warning be unheeded, the Church will in time disappear. "I will remove thy 011.ndlestick out of•its place." Our Lord Jesus does not desire the pro…
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at our command is required for the striotly homiletic exposition of it. There are no fewer than seven lines of meditation here suggested. We have- , I. A LIVING SAnoun OVER ALL. (Ver. 8.) To the members of this poor and strug- gling' Church the Lord Jesus presents the fact of his mediatorial dominion to them for th…
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kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do." "Lo, I am with you al way, even unto the end of the age.'' VII. A LIVmG SA v1oux PR01i1rs1NG Ll'Jl'E AT THE END oF ALL. "Be ••• and I will give thee a crown of life. • • • He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death." There is underlying the wo…
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where they are used to bide corruption, and where impurity of motive and of life poiaon all, material ooauty is forgotten in the moral badness, ":Man looketh on the outward appearance; the Lord looketh on the heart." We have, however, a further clue to the reason why Parga.mos was called" Satan's throne." There pagani…
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Ve~s. 18-29'.....::,'n~ti~a', victors /or (Jh7'ist' reigning with him; .In sc.oe· ~espeott ' .., . , 1 C1f.·Gr~'B 'Ifigh Alps of New Zealand; PP· 2, s> . .·, . · ~H. d. 1-29.J THE 'Rllti:LATIDN OIi' ST'. JOHN THE DIVINE. : t'5 · this letter la '1ery sitnllar to the last. ·ln one respect it is uniqu~. Its'. einiilari…
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triumph and in glory. From this p_oint of view, is not the puzzling and repelling aupeet disappearing from this promise? and does it not begin to gleam with glory? Out of this present oneness with Christ, the fulfilment of the promise in the t.ext must certainly come. Several steps of thought will show this. 1. Those w…
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goloni~ ~ Qhurche11 of Asia., PhiladelJ?hia is still erect_ a ,col~ in a sceµ.e of ruiDa i Ott. u. 1-29.] Ta:lll :REV-ILATION· OF ST: .JOHN Tilt· ·:OtVINE:-· 1&~ a. pleaaing exa.mple ~t the paths of honour and ~a.fety •may sometjmes be ·the sll,Ille '!. (<lb. lxiv.)•. But this grave censure,and the awfulcouseque11ces…
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and so win the vtctory and overcome. The temptations to whfoh they were exposed were for ever clamouring th&t they should seize upon the sensual pleasures of this short life, and fill it up with them, such as they were. But the Lord's promise holds out to them the prfae of a pure and perfect and perpetual life in the-p…
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know where to :find the minister of God ; his orbit-the holy ways of God"""'.""he should uever quit. (4) He should be above the world-his conversation in heaven, his citizenship there. (5) He should be _a sure guid~ for men's souls, as are the stars to the beniithted, the traveller, the manner; and, hke the star of …
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them carrying on and extending the work of God around them ; and now .they are disappointed and made ashamed. The enemies of God blaspheme, and those who have gone back are the cause. 4• .And they f/uimselves suffer most of all. (1) They are miserable ; they have enough of religion left to give them disrelish for the w…
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in the blessed prospect of the crown of life, which assuredly should be theirs; rich in present knowledge, consolation, and hope; rich in the help and blessing they should impart to others. Poverty there might be and was in regard to this world'e wealth, but over against it was to be set, and doubtless they did so set …
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have done their all, and nothing is left more that they ®D. .dQ, and .tl~ey shall h~ve gone to their own place, I shall remain, an4. of my kingdom there s~l be no end. Therefore, remember, the eternal God is thy Refuge, and underneat~ thee are the ever- lasting arms." "Wr.ich was dead;" i.e. "I have entered into.all tl…
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Ver. 10.-ne s~ere law of Okrist. "Be tho.1,1 faitpful," ew.' h~th. th,e pity ,0f Rome there is a long succession of subtel'f8IUt&U Stf'~~ ~d galleries, quarried ~OIJ:JJ\e rQC~ strata of the soil. These are, now opelMl(l.~d,~ra_ma,y visi~them. ,.'fbl!r)' are fflllarkable; they are even wonderful ; they are t~e. moat …
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Atting to take the title of this letter from that which our Lord takes as his own, and term it, " The sharp two-eclgecl WJ<Jr<l!' For this letter is largely illustrative of ita work. In eh. i. we saw it in St. John's vision; here we see it in the experience of the Church. But whilst the main reference is t.o that visio…
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It had no h1dng for the purity, the self-denial, and the unworldlineBII of the Church, but revelled in the very reverse of all these thin~ All that could sap and undermine the faith and the faithml was there in full force. It was Satan's throne indeed. Now, for that even there they held fast Christ's na.me, they des…
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· Vera. 18--29.-,..Epistle to the <Jhwrch. at ThyaUra. Careful read?rs of these Jettera -1ll ob~l!;how in this and, the foregoing ones St. John. seenµi to, .be contemplating grea,t h1stoncal eve1;tts recorded. in t,he Old Testament. In thfl first, the allusion. to ~• the tree <if life" and the " Paradiije of (:loo."…
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aeduoe his people, are "as a flame of fire," once wept. over J(!l"llS&l.em. and·by the grave of L ~ _. If he -0ould not h$ he could not love ; and because he does.so love, ~QP!- fore i, the W:\'ath of the Lamb so real and terrible a thmg. . , " .: , , ,u! II. I-re SBVERITY, (Vers. 22, 23,) God. does do eTen now what i…
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Vers. 8-11.-(2) The epistle to ~ <Jhurch in Smyrna: the <Jhurch ezposed to suffering. The ds.rk shades of coming sorrow gather about a Church already distin- guished by tribulation and poverty and rude reviling. " The devil is about to cast some of you into prison;" so saith he "which was dead, and lived again." Even d…
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Vers. 18-29.-(4) The epistle to the (Jhurch in Thyatira: the growing Ohurch expo_w to corruption qf doctrine. With the highest title, " the Son of God," the Lord of the Church speaks-the Lord who searches as with eyes of flame and with burning, consuming fire, and treads down his enemies beneath his feet. The vision i…
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ohatige in the spirit and purpollll of life. (3) To reproduce. "Do the first works." Go over thy past life, reproduce thy old feeling, and reattempt old effort. This. can.,be done; we can relive our lives, the best as well as the worst portion of them. (4) 'To tremble. "Or else I will come unto thee quickly, and wil…
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had said, "You are to be subject to a trying, a sifting, a testing process. It .must be ah.own, to yourselves and to those who look on, what there is in you of empty, hollow; oowardly profession. I cannot excuse you from this necessity." 4. The persecuUon. tlNJi lkort. "Ten days." It ia idle, puerile, to inquire what e…
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and, more than this, be shall have a "crown " and a "wreath of life." A crown standa for the most elevated distinction, the highest honour. This distinction James calla "a crown of life;" Paul, "a crown of glory;" Peter, '' a crown of righteousneilB," What iB the crown of life? Pwf«t moral manhootL-D. T. Verlt 12-17.-…
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llb.tagonistic tbose circumstances may be. Qw, benevplent M~ pas in vested all mwal IIDWds with the power not only ttO rise abQve eJ:ternltl oirc~tanCeEI, ,but, t\>: iub- ordbmte· the·most hostile to their advan~ge. 2.- That the eye of <Jlariat f'(!COg'fl,'H!f/8.611~ part of a man's character, whether good. or bad. …
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f!ld prophets, like tlud;1idden manna and the Urim, seen by-the high,priest alone, but "~eh rev11lation of the glory of God can only be known by those who have l'8Ceived ~•: , .,(a). This ma.y be a. sign of acquittal. . In the ancient Gi;eek courts of justice it w~.ousto~ to .signify the judgment pronounced upon the…
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I. As THAT IN' WHICH CHRIST FEELS THE PROFOUNDEST IN'l'ERBST. He who ia here called ·the "Son of God}' no doubt feels an interest in every part. of the great universe. But material worlds and systems, methinks, concern him not so much as the moral character of God's spirimal offspring. In souls his interest is profou…
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nothing that be has made. Be wills not the death of any sinner, but rather that lie should turn and be saved-should repent and live. It was so even with the immoral person here spoken of; time was given her; but she would not use it. There was no will to repent. Therefore, for the sake of others, the time must now b…
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,.-: I.,OBIU8'1'U.N ~XCELLl!NCE IS u A.ftAINDN'l'. The words are. addressed to Christiani at., trhy,a~ and · they are represented. as having "charity,•~ 0t love to Christ, "'aiid ~•.ipatienoe," or holy.fortitude and ma.gnanimity. under all .the tri)lls of life. These are aJl,eJaments of Christian e:rcellenoe,. and th-e…
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ci,APTER IIt ten million seste7ces (.t86,000), and remitted 'Vimfl-'--'-6.----'l'he epistle·to tM· Ohuroh atJ fot five: yee.ril all they paid to the ei.t• of SdUii." This Chimlh uone the two which chequer" Ji('l'IJio.\ •• Ann:( ii. 47). ·; :A!, :Jittle tec6ives unmixed reproof. Smyrna and later Ss.-tdis· 'ii'as·,6nti…
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mel!-!:< -4,c,man he received U: fl,8.God he .\onr.£ may be Jll&ll9uij.ne .in signification, give11,it;,. ; And a Ch'\ll'Ch sunk iµ spiritual and, mean those OleJUbets of ~.. ChUJ:Oh ~ S i l ,specially need11 sqo4 a gifp. Renee who have stij,J. so~ life, ~- them:, , l3iJt th.il! th~ i1;11~ijlif11 11,bout.)iaving the…
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full,"• mean■ made up to the right atandazd her" or "bandit." This !!hows, what fll also of excellence. The works of the Sa.rdie.n plain from ihe OODtext, that seorecy, not Church have been weighed, and found want- Tiolenee, is the poi!J.t of . the aimilitu.de ing before God. "A mi.niater of Christ la (comp. oh. xvi 15…
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mnall link betw8!!11 the two boob. The having "garments" for l"h"" in ver. 4, and word" white" (;\~111,ds), excepting in Matt. v. "raiment" for the same word in vez. 5. The 86and John iv. 85,isin the New Testament; construction, 7rEpt/3dA-.\•tT8a., l, · -rwi. OOCtlff always used of heatHll'ily purity and bright- again …
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ot.he:us ot~. last f-0ur· epistles,&nd-,tnilike nattte is Allilh SheJw; •• the city of God," or, the. :lird. ~ ~ exh9rta,tion f0Uow11 ibe as others write e.nd rende?-i:t, :Al? BMh,., ppmaise_ to t@ victor. No ~ti8factmy eit-, '' the striped oity.'' lri planatiqn of.the ohange·of•armDgement any q&iie\th'e coip~i~ e…
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ot S!l'tan. The true reading- Jrelmla a,· . neither. ~fllt10~, nor llJawt<:oi, but 11,ll,i, ffoji.1 type. ,!He is· Regent in ihe kingdom of God. form li,ll&,.,, whioh is 'mil'ly eolilllllfn icd:.!ll.llMr. ~e that openeth, and none shall llhut, end cal Greek. The construction, lit T°;is'.,i-t,va• 112 THE REVELATION 01…
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fnblra paition aud the Habillty of pil]an iD fa threefold: (1) the name of Go4; (S) thJ the Philadelph.ian templeil to 11UOOwnb t.o name of the new Jernaa.Jem; (3) the na~ the effects of- the frequent earthquakes of Christ. For God was the Chriatiau which took plaoe there (see on ver. 7). Such m&iniaining his warfare; …
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aee through a gltl88, darkly: but then face and Sardis,. they requ1red no ntraneoua to face : now I know in pa.rt: but then sha.ll assistance to enable them to regain their I know even WI alao I 11m kno1Yn" (1 Cor. former prosperity. This fa.et undoubtedly xiii. 12). Vez. 18..,....-Re that bath an ear, let him explai…
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But the l!llntelice i11 not irrevocable : tb8f8 Alford, Bengel, Diist.e?dieek, Ebrard. But hi still hope of averting it: M•M• 11'• iµluru, Trench prefers the other view. 'l'he Autho- " I am about to spue thee," i.e. if a timely rized Version seems oorrect, for the reason repentance does not avert the impending why "I w…
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Joseph in 't'estures of ftne linen (Gen. xii. Jmoclc; behold, I 00116 ,tooiJ, (ICM"711r11:) at t1lll 42); Joseph gave Benjamin five changes of' door, and am kflocking (ii:pu6,.,). "Th880 raiment (Gen. xlv. 22; see alao Esth. vi, 9; gracious wordii declare the long-suft'ering Ezek. xvi. 10; Dan. v. 29; Zech. lli. 4; …
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u I allo overc11.111e, and am set down with erected 0hrist's owii throne, which glorified m:, .Father in his throne, The olimiut of man may share iu common with l,im who the promises ma<le to the ~ven Churohes was man, and who has 80 exalted humanity (of. eh. ii. 7, 11, 17, 26-28 ; iii, 5, 12). as to render such a cond…
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The two are of equal importance. Without the one the othet would be impossible. The atoning work was completed on earth; the baptizing work is ever being carried on in ~ven. The Gospels record the one ; the Aots and the Epistles recount and cpound the other. His work of humiliation on earth laid the basis of pardon. Hi…
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watchful. Become so. (2) Strengthen what is left. All ls not lost. (3) Remember the past-those happy days of receiving the truth. (4) Repent. It ie high time, when death has seized on a Church, that its position should be seriously reviewed with the in p{U'pose of amendment unto life. Nore: (a) The life Christ is n…
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that part or this letter which aeema chiefly to require eluclda.tion (er. Ter. 7). Our topic is-The sovereignty of Uie Lord Jesus OVll7' Uie house of God. We will inquire-- I. WHAT ISTRE aousE 01' DAVID? Our Lord deola.res himself as "he that ha.th the keys of David" (cf. 2 Kings xviii. 18, 26, 37; Isa. xxii. 15-22)…
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Vers.14-29.-Laodirea: self-conceit and 11elf-deceie. Here la a Church which baa an utterly mistaken view of itself. It thinks itself as well oJf as need be. Our Lord declares it to be in a desperately bad condition. It is addressed by Christ as by the • faith(ul and true Witness," as the "Beginning of the creation of G…
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Churches. Christ is not in them, and will not be, till they repent. It is' no uncommon thing to name the name of Christ with the tonguo, even when the Spirit of Christ js not in the heart. It is clear enough, then, what Obrist means by lukewarmness. There W88 care enough and interest enough to hold together an exter…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Ven. 1-6.-The epistle to the Chu'f'ch al &,,,.di,. Were any one visiting the actual sites where the several Churches spoken of in these letters once stood, he would, ere he came to Sardi..~, h&ve gone a long way round the circle on the circumference of which they all were. Beginning with E…
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prove!! this. 'J'rue, we have had such severity before, and shall have it again• for rebuke, and c,ften stun rebuko, was what was needed then and still is by the majority of Churches, always and everywhere. Nevertheless, there is no one of these letters in wbfoh the toue is more eevure, or t,he smiting of the sword of …
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,aid, that the Divine judgment comes silently, stealthily, secretly, invisibly, unex- pectedly, "as a thief." Who can mark the hour when God's Spirit leaves a man? Who sees the master of the house riae up and shut the door? It is not always true, as the muoh misleading verse tells- • While the le.mp holds out to bum, …
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. Ver. 4.-.-TM pre8fflt bleas«lneBS of the cons8Cf'tJkd lif11: a Whil Buntlay ""1'IMlft. "They shall walk with me in whit.e: for they are worthy.'' This is Whit Sunday, and · lts very name ea.mes us back in thought to the literal and impressive manner in which the Christian Church of the early centuries was wont to i…
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heart." ' OfJ, tile joy of thfd It ls good, when temptatiat1 .comee, to be able to grip and. grapple with it,and to gain victory O'ler·it, though,after a hard struggle. Oh, how far better this than to mi11erably yield, and to be "led captive by Satan at his will" J .N even this falls far below the bleSIIOOD.ess which…
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Obrist the Lord. The ·cry, "The Ohurch· of the Lord, the Clluroh of: th9' Lord are we P' ia often railllld by those who have no right to it, and against those who have. !l'h1111 was it at Sardia. .. 2. They had to fflCOWlter actiw opposition. Endeavours seem to have ·ooen: made to shut- the door of nsefulneas which the…
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not. "Ye Jews sa-y ye are JewB, but in any 1;eal sense ye are- not; ye do lie; but this my despised, yet faithful Church, I.have Joyed her, and I, the Holy, the True, th& King:of Israel. do now confeas her as she bas oonfesaed me.•• And often and often has the Lord done the. like of this. " When wrong has been done to …
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Cort.b a sweet- fragrance. It 1'111 aaked whence it had 11110h fragrance. It rer.lied that it had long lain by the aide of a sweet-smelling l'Ole, and so it. h""'1 become lilied with ita sweetness. So our clay like souls, if. wa be ln· communion with Christ, shall come to be u he. · Ah, then, "open the door," and let y…
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those trained in pioua homes, and from whom you would have- expected better things. (3) And this is the soul's own doing. It volunt.arlly excludes Christ. When his avpeal is heard, and very often it is, men -divert their thoughts, distract them with other themes; or deaden their convictions, by plunging into pleasur…
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