A vision in the temple. The Lord of Hosts, adored

Here are three PROPOSITIONS. viz. 1. The Churches of Christ are compared to Candlesticks. 2. To Candlesticks of Gold. 3. The Lord Jesus walks in the midst of them.

Prop. 1. The Churches of Christ are compared to Candlesticks. Their being compared to Candlesticks, may probably be in allusion to the Seven Lamps or Lights, that were in the Golden Candlestick in the Tabernacle of old. That Golden Candlestick had seven Lamps to give light, Exod. 25.37. Numb. 8.2. The Churches of Christ may be compared to Candlesticks.

1. From their receiving of Light. If we consider a Candlestick, as to the substance and matter of which it is made; it has no enlightening quality or efficacy, but 'tis, adapted or fitted ⟨p. 6⟩to receive Light, to receive a lighted Candle that is put into it: it has no light but what it receives. So all the true Churches, the true Followers of Christ, they receive light from him. As future Glory is called the Inheritance of the Saints in light, (Col. 1.12.) So the Saints themselves while here on Earth, are called the Children of light; they are enlightened ones. 1 Thes. 5.5. Ye are all the children of the light, and the children of the day; we are not of the night, nor of darkness. And from whence have the Saints and Churches of Christ their light, their knowledge and understanding in Spiritual Divine Things? Why, they have it from Christ himself! He is the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world,