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'mrldiytaegvenLECTURE IX.lnv. I. N.'Die ofthe tars Hchthousawestinmyrightband,gohlelrfeadndlesvdchs. The seven stars are the anga;of \he seven churches; and the seven candlesticlu whichsawest are the seven churches.IT hasgnerallybeen believed that the seven churchesto whom eangel instructed John to write, were sevendifferent and distinct churches in Asia, and by almostall of our commentators at the present dayare under~stood to mean seven literal churches. But your speakeris forced, from the reasons which will hereafter be produced,to believe that these seven churches of Asin areto be understood in a figurative sense, to sevenalludingperiods of the church militant, during the Christian dispensation,dovrn to the first resurrection, and the commencingofthe lorious reign of Christ on the earth, commonlycalled Ti Millmrriun If this view of the subjectshould prove to be the correct exposition ofthe text, howimportant and interesting is the subject to us who live in$9 last stage Thencf] die chuachl wie who live .st thiy,areparticar,a.n solemnlan a monishedin what is said by Christ toglie %M'&dteams,that church corresponding with our stage ofthe church immediately previous to the commencing ofthe rnillennial glory; and how necnsry that we shouldknow that these admonitions do most concern ns!deeplyThis view of the subject will then claim our nrst attention.Were the seven churches used ss Aigurs ofthe wholsOhristiandip|nsstioa,or wvsrstheymtr I