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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SERMON III. COUNSEL TO THE FALLEN. Revelation, ii. 5. REMEMBER THEREFORE FROM WHENCE THOU ART FALLEN, AND REPENT, AND DO THE FIRST WORKS. Striking and solemn as these words are in themselves, they are made still more so by the connection in which they are found. The description of the Church of Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SERMON III. COUNSEL TO THE FALLEN. Revelation, ii. 5. REMEMBER THEREFORE FROM WHENCE THOU ART FALLEN, AND REPENT, AND DO THE FIRST WORKS. Striking and solemn as these words are in themselves, they are made still more so by the connection in which they are found. The description of the Church of Ephesus, as it was at the time when this call to remembrance and repentance was addressed to it from on high, is given in the verses which precede the text; and it is such as might have seemed to preclude the possibility of a message like this being sent to it. " I know thy works"-such is the testimony of Him who seeth in secret-" and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil; and thou. hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted." Who could have expected that the very next words to these should contain a rebuke? " Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thyfirst love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent." Certainly, my brethren, when we take the words of the text in company with those which go before it, we cannot say, any one of us, that we are quite sure they have no direct application to ourselves. Can He who knows our works say of us, that we for His name's sake have laboured, and that we cannot bear those who are evil? Of how few can this be said confidently! how few can safely and confidently say it or hope it of themselves! Yet even to those who could say so, to those of whom Christ Himself declares it, it is added afterwards, " Remember from whence thou art fallen." No, none of us are too good to need this warning voice; God grant that none of us may be too hard to listen to it. The state here described is that of one who, with Books, , Sermons-Preached-In-The-Chapel-Of-Harrow-School~~Charles-John-Vaughan, 999999999, Sermons Preached In The Chapel Of Harrow School, Charles John Vaughan, 0217554474, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<