...beauty, separated from love it perishes. Now this is indicated in the next portion of this address — " Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love." The first love of the Ephesian Church has generally been interpreted of her zeal. The zeal of the primitive...

...company of those, in whom they once experienced delight. Loud is the voice which addresses them, " I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember whence thou art fallen and repent, and do the first works !" O young Christian, think of the awfulness,...

...the Lord thus describes in his awful charge against the church of the Ephesians, where He saith, " I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love." Oh, terrible declaration against such deluded Christians as make a MS NO. 77. — VOL. VII. N shew...

...simplicity and independance. " Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou has not kept thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do thy first works; or else I will come to thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of...

...thee, because thou hast fallen from thy first love. Remember, therefore, from whence thou art lallen, and repent ; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of its place txeept thou repent. Rev. ¡i. 4, 5." Finally, the prophetic page affords us the strongest...

...allayed, and stronger resolutions decline to remissness. Our Saviour tells the church of Ephesus, " I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love: remember from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do thy first works." It is said of Jehosaphat, that "...

...vessel; but I speak the words of Christ: therefore refuse not his word : refuse not him that says, I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Let us every one ask, " What does conscience say to this charge? Have we left our first love?" Then...

...for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted." Nevertheless, says he, in the 4th verse, " I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love." Their affection was cooled, their zeal was abated, they were become more remiss and lukewarm in the...

...these ideas, is found but once in Scripture. " Ne" vertheless," says Christ to the Ephesian Church, " I have somewhat against thee ; because thou hast •"'...therefore, from " whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do thy '"' first works ; else I will come unto thee quickly, and * 1 Theas. jv. 1. t 1 Pet. i....

...complained of a declension of his love to the Lord Jesus ; and once, while meditating on that text : " I have somewhat against thee because thou hast left thy first love," he exclaimed : ' Ah ! I too have left my first love !' A few days before his end, being visited by...