THE EVERLASTING HIGH-PRIEST......................... Rev. i. 12-18..... 44

LECTURE IV.

THE SEVEN STARS AND SEVEN CANDLESTICKS...... Rev. i. 20............ 59

LECTURE V.

THE CHURCH OF EPHESUS-HER EXCELLENCY.......Rev. ii. 1-3....... 77

LECTURE VI.

FIRST LOVE LOST..........

............................... Rev. ii. 4............ 94

LECTURE VII.

THE DIVINE PRESCRIPTION............................................................................ Rev. ii. 5, 6......... 111

LECTURE VIII.

THE BATTLE OF LIFE.........

..Rev. ii. 7............ 125

The Hidden Manna and WhitE STONE............ Rev. ii, 17.......................... 258

TRUE HONOUR AND RENOWN......................... Rev. iii. 5.............. 873

LECTURE XXIV.

THE KEY OF DAVID AND THE OPEN DOOR......Rev. iii. 7, 8......... 386

LECTURE XXXI.

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DIVINE CHASTISEMENT............................................................................ Rev. iii. 19........ 471

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE INDIVIDUAL................ Rev. iii. 21.......... 514

LECTURE XXXV.

THE LAST APPEAL

.Rev. iii. 22......... 526

LECTURES

ON

THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA.

LECTURE I.

THE SEER.

"I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and what thou seest write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea."REV. i. 9-1

It is my intention to lay before you plain and interesting sketches of sacred duties and responsibilities, as far as these can be gathered from the addresses of our Lord to the seven Churches of Asia. These addresses have little to do with what may gratify the taste of the cultivated, or please the imagination and excite the fancy of the intellectual; but if defective in these claims to popular sympathy, they are calculated to do much good to those who seek to know their duties and to understand how they shall best fulfil them, and to be made acquainted with their responsibilities as members of the visible Church, and living amid the means and ordinances of grace. Profit is not always set in pleasure. If, therefore, you expect in my expositions of these Epistles to the seven Churches of Asia any flights or excursions calculated to gratify the curious, you will be disappointed; but if you expect and pray that I may be able to submit to you new

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