...these ideas, is found but once in Scripture. " Nevertheless/' says Christ to the Ephesian. church, " I have somewhat against thee ; because thou hast left...therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do thy first works ; else I will come unto thee quickly, and I will remove thy candlestick out of hie...

...: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars : 3 and hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted. 4 Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, 5 because thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore...

...7. " Because that for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles." Rev. ii. 3. "And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured and hast not fainted." And we find that holy persons express their desire of this, and their joy in it, in the same manner...

...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 patience, and for my name's sake hast labored and hast not fainted. Nevertheless, I have somewhat against thee ; because thou hast left thy...

...evil : and thou hast tried them which say they are Apostles and are not, and hast found them liars: 3. And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted. 4. Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. 5. Remember therefore...

...enemies of the truth, increases in warmth, and commends with a liberal heart, adding these words : " And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted." This is, I take it, not so much a reiteration of what had been commended in general under the head...

...changed." And these things ought to sound in our awakened ears the solemn and affecting warning, " I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left...thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou hast fallen, and repent, and do the first works."— But if indifference and lukewarmness towards the...

...angel of the church of Ephesus, when our Lord said to him, "I know thy works, and thy patience : thou hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured and hast not fainted," Rev. ii. 2, 3, 4. But was there in the mean time no sin in his heart ? Yea, or Christ would not have...

...malady commencing its attacks upon us, which threatens the very ruin of all our hopes—Nevertheless, I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love! How few there are, who do not feel the charge too applicable to themselves! How few, of whom it could...

...church at Ephesus, when the Lord Jesus, after commending their labours, fidelity, and patience, added, "Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love."d Such also was the case of many in the church at Sardis, when the Saviour said, " I know thy...