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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 3 – The Seven Churches (continued)
myself, I bless God I have observed and felt

so much mercy in this angry dispensation of

God that I am almost transported. I am, sure,

highly pleased with thinking how infinitely

sweet his mercies are, when his judgments are

so gracious.’ In view, then, of the origin and

design of the chastisements you receive, ‘Be

zealous and repent.’ Lose no time; lose not a

blow of the rod, but repent at once. Be fervent

in spirit. Such is the first appliance of

encouragement.”

Be Zealous and Repent. — Although, as we

have seen, the state represented by coldness

is preferable to one of lukewarmness, yet that

is not a state in which our Lord ever desires to

find us. We are never exhorted to seek that

state. There is a far better one which we are

counseled to attain; and that is to be zealous,