APOCALYPTIC SKETCHES; OR, LECTURES ON THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA MINOR. BY THE REV. JOHN CUMMING, D.D. MINISTER OF THE NATIONAL SCOTTISH CHURCH, CROWN COURT, "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the Churches." FOURTH THOUSAND. Rev. iii. 22. LONDON:-1850. ARTHUR HALL, VIRTUE AND CO. 25, PATERNOSTER ROW; SOLD BY J. F. SHAW, SOUTHAMPTON ROW, RUSSELL SQUARE; PATON AND RITCHIE; J. MENZIES, EDINBURGH; JOHN ROBERTSON, DUBLIN. ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE COUNTESS OF DUCIE. DEAR MADAM, My respect for your Ladyship will plead my best apology for dedicating to you these Lectures on the Seven Churches of Asia. You permitted me to associate your name with a previous work, and I am sure I have your forgiveness for again connecting so esteemed and respected a name with this volume. Aware of the practical character of your mind, and of your deeper sympathy with acknowledged evangelical truth and personal religion than with any interpretation, however valuable, or even with the study of unfulfilled prophecy, however obligatory, I seize the opportunity of dedicating to your Ladyship these Lectures, as a b |