should be sufficient for you," even though you were a thou- sand times weaker than you are. " Be strong in him, and in the power of his might:" and soon you shall be crowned with victory, and be made everlasting monuments of his power and grace.]
Rev. iii. 14 — 22. And unto the angel of the church of the Luodiceans urite ; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God: I know thy ivorks, that thou art neither cold nor hot : I would thou icert cold or hot. So then because thoii art lukewarm, und neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayesf, I am rich, and increased icith goods, and have need of nothing ; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the f re, that thou mayest be rich ,• and while raiment, that thou mayest he clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not ap- pear; and anoint thine eyes luith eye-salve, that thou mayest see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten : be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock : if' any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and luill sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh nill I grant to sit with me in mij throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down ivilh my Fa/her in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
WHEREVER the leading truths of Christianity are maintained and professed, there may be said to be a Church of Christ. But it is too often found, that the angels or ministers of such Churches go on in the external exercise of their functions, without ever feeling the influence of the truth upon their own souls, or stimulating their people to high and hea- venly attainments. Thus it was with the Church at Laodicea : the pastor and the flock had shamefidly degenerated from their former experience, and were resting in a state worse than any other of the Churches in Asia, a state wherein their Lord could see nothing to approve, but every thing to condemn. Having
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