is obvious: the true church is with the Lord, and the mass of Laodicean profession, utterly apostate, is no longer even called a church, but “Babylon.” The Laodicean spirit; however, is one of boastfulness, of pride in numbers and in the outward apparent prosperity of the church. With all this groundless optimism, there is utter blindness to the real unspirituality of the mass of professing church-members. “Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest
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