...of those who say they are apostles and are not, but do lie ; and they are summed up in the words, " and hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted." Works are named in the Word as the exterior and outward form of all the interior graces which are embodied...

...simplicity and independance. " Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou has not kept thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do thy first works; or else I will come to thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place,...

.../know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them that are evil ; nevertheless I have somewhat against thee ; because thou hast left thy first love. (Rev. ii.) If that love you professed, was from God, you cannot possibly have lost it ; but, there...

...company of those, in whom they once experienced delight. Loud is the voice which addresses them, " I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember whence thou art fallen and repent, and do the first works !" O young Christian, think of the awfulness,...

...the Lord thus describes in his awful charge against the church of the Ephesians, where He saith, " I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love." Oh, terrible declaration against such deluded Christians as make a MS NO. 77. — VOL. VII. N shew...

...works, and thy labour, and thy patience ; and how thou canst not bear them which say they are apostles, and hast found them liars; and hast borne, and hast patience, and for my sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted." Ah ! Christians, if our Divine Master can say all this to...

...allayed, and stronger resolutions decline to remissness. Our Saviour tells the church of Ephesus, " I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love: remember from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do thy first works." It is said of Jehosaphat, that "...

...canst not bear them which are evil ; and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars; and hast borne, and...hast laboured, and hast not fainted." Nevertheless, says he, in the 4th verse, " I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love."...

...thou canst not bear them which are evil; and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars : and hast borne, and...name's sake, hast laboured, and hast not fainted. Yet, notwithstanding this, he, who searcheth the heart and trieth the reins of the children of men,...

...these ideas, is found but once in Scripture. " Ne" vertheless," says Christ to the Ephesian Church, " I have somewhat against thee ; because thou hast •"'...from " whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do thy '"' first works ; else I will come unto thee quickly, and * 1 Theas. jv. 1. t 1 Pet. i. 2a. J John...