...the Laodiceans. In them we have a remarkable example of presumptuous confidence. "Because thou sayest I am rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing: and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked : I counsel thee...

...by the revelator. The church at Laodicea is charged with being proud and presumptuous. She said, " I am rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing ;" but, says the revelator, " Thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked ;" iii....

...And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins. Rev. iii. 17. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased in goods, and have need of nothing ; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. Isa. xxxv....

...correct our pleasant errors. Such was the case of the church mentioned in the revelations, " Thou sayest I am rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing, and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable." Into the like extravagancies of mistake we are...

...are under a fearful delusion as to their state, like Laodicea, Rev. iii. 17, " Because thon sayest, I am rich, and increased in goods, and have need of nothing ; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked." As one is...

..."Hear," says he, " in the Revelation, the voice of thy Lord, reproving such men as these, 6 Thou sayest I am rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing, and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.' " Kev. iii....

...self-righteous, the self-sufficient, the high-minded, the proud, the full ; not they who say in their hearts, " I am rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing." No ; it is not for stich that this " feast of fat things " is provided. But for the weary and heavy-laden,...

...In two respects it would. There would have been less of the means of self-deception. ( " Thou sayest I am rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing.") And all semblance and pretension to Christianity being abjured, there would have been less injury done...

...that men should boast themselves of any good things in this world ? what can be more foolish than to say, " I am rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing," when any accident may at any moment take away what we trust in ? One man boasts of his money ; and...

...of this is not easily fixed in the soul; and hence, many, like a fallen Church of old, are saying, "I am rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing." Sad and ruinous mistake ! Alas, how blinding is the influence of sin! How strange a delusion to judge...