Lectures on the Seven Churches

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Each assembly has the Lord's estimate of it given.1 Each has words of caution, consolation, admonition, rebuke, warning, comfort, etc., fitting to its stale, given.
 
1. Note: EVERYONE, if he speaks, writes, or acts, will let out, at all events, what is in himself. Let this make us swift to hear and slow to speak. And, mark it, Christ also speaks, and acts truthfully according to what He is. Thus, if there be 'anything that can be praised, He speaks of that first, and afterward of what is evil. Men usually find fault first, and few believers know how to praise another. I remember one saying once to me, "Nobody ever praised me before!" I had noticed to him how much Christ had wrought patience in him in the preceding year.