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We should covet to be attractive to souls that fear God; there should be that about us which would attract thirsty souls with spiritual needs and exercises. The assembly is the circle on earth where God is known, where the unsearchable riches of Christ can be found, where the Holy Spirit dwells. It is God’s city. The contrast between Babylon and Jerusalem challenges us at every point. What are we delighting in, and cultivating, and exhibiting? The features of the great harlot, or the features of the bride? If I am on the line of what ministers to vanity and self-exaltation, either in myself or in others, that is the line of Babylon.

C. A. Coates (‘Outline of the Revelation’, pp.186, 187)

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