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-15th'''cns.rs'r's suoln comms. 151tlmuhing-Boar." Then will he receive the new name"The Lord our righteousness," for the Lord is there.Then, tco, a citizen of the glorified the NewJerusalem, married to the Lamb, and sbs kin§dom, live and reignwith him tbrever and forever. "He that hath an ear,saith unto the churches."let him hear what the SpiritThis closes the prophecy to the sixth church; and nowlet us see to it that we do not lose the blessings promisedby refusing to hear what the,Spirit saith to the churches.Hear, and your souls shall live; tum adisobey,deafcar, refuse the oiferedgrace, and you will die; for thesoul that sinneth shall ie.It now remains for me to show the age ofthe seventhor Lsodicean church, and the characteristic marks ofthat church or age. And if I am right in comideringthese churches m a.mystical sense, as our text morethan implies, and our arguments and references stronglyprove, y humble opinion, then, this part of our sub-_iect bel&:es doubly interesti to us, who live in thevery age of the fulfilment ofngiis prophecy. Yes, mybrethren, we live at the very time when the great headofthe church says,14th verse, "And unto the angel of the church inlnodicea write, These things saith the Amen, the faithfuland true witness, the beginning of the creation of God."Laodicea signifies the 'uglging of the people, and mayhave referencestage, when Godwould out an ju entupona uiltaxtghe cliggch |51 itsdgfltIodd,fP::d upon a andhaughty,proud, self-egaltetdthem out o his mouth.church, and spuebswarmnted hom the subject in connection.dress- fn"ispensation, ysa. 'n ,tfxlguach begins by showing tléalt.domgf _u ,lkmen." It also:.'.°~='..,..,.""'°..,"":~ii..i°d.s~°°' ` ' 'This idea maThe sd);it is theese th'teaches uglthit it lcongmex in¢|¢ldgmeut,orre or a 'u ent,being "thsl beg;-inningyofent e owle e othe creatign ofverse,"I know thy works, that thou art neitherOtldnorlwtz I would thouwert cold or hot." To be