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cnars1"s sscozm comma. 143that the Thyatira church represents the churches insomeage of anti-Christ, and theprophecycontained inthe verses we have already quoted are the Judgments Godhas and will pour out on that great city that rules overthe kings of the earth, and has for ages past trodden thechurch under foot, and contaminated the people of Godby her seductions, sorceries, and fomications.24, " But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Tliyatira,As manyas have not this doctrine, and which havenot known the de ths of Satan as they speak, I will putupon you none other burden." 25, "But that whichhave already, hold fast till I come." In these verses 'ieechurch which have not fellowshipped the anti-Christiandoctrine, and have not followed the practices of the satanicblasphemies of their abominations, are here promisedto experience no other persecution except what theymay experience from this beast or woman Jezebel, whichis another proof ot' this being anti-Christ; for the churchin Thyatira has long been extinct, if there ever was sucha church, and was when the man of sin was revealed;and yet they are promised to have none other burden untilhe come, as it is more than implied; and this power isto stand until he comes. For Paul "says, Whom he shallconsume with the spirit of his mouth and destroy with thebrightness of his cominrr." '1'his is Daniel's fourth kingdom,which was to be broken without hand, and to becarried away like the chaif of the summer threshing-doorbefore the wind, that noplace be found for it.26, "And he that overcometh and keepeth my worksunto the end, to him will I give powerover the nations,"27, (" And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as thevessels ofa potter shall they be broken to shivers,) evcmas Ireceived of my Father. And I will ive him themorning star." 29, "He that hath anear,!let him hearwhat the Spirit saith to the churches."In closing the prophecies to the churches, our divineInstructor carries them down to that day when he shallcome to be admired in all them that believe, or to glorifyhis saints, to crown them his in his kingdom of glory, tobreak in pieces all the kingdoms ofthe earth as a potter'svessel is broken to shivers, as the last text says, which