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A commentary upon the book of the Revelation Wherein the text is explained, the…A commentarie upon the book of the Revelation Wherein the text is explained, the…
A commentary upon the book of the Revelation Wherein the text is explained, the series of the several prophecies contained in that book, deduced according to their order and dependence on each other; the periods and succession of times, at, or about which, these prophecies, that are already fulfilled, began to be, and were more fully accomplished, fixed and applied according to history; and those that are yet to be fulfilled, modestly, and so far as is warrantable, enquired into. Together with some practical observations, and several digressions, necessary for vindicating, clearing, and confirming many weighty and important truths. Delivered in several lectures, by that learned, laborious, and faithful servant of Jesus Christ, James Durham, late Minister of the Gospel in Glasgow. To which is affixed a brief summary of the whole book, with a twofold index, one of the several digressions, another of the chief and principal purposes and words contained in this treatise.A commentarie upon the book of the Revelation Wherein the text is explained, the series of the several prophecies contained in that book, deduced according to their order and dependance on each other; the periods and succession of times, at, or about which, these prophecies, that are already fulfilled, began to be, and were more fully accomplished, fixed and applied according to history; and those that are yet to be fulfilled, modestly, and so far as is warrantable, enquired into. Together with some practical observations, and several digressions, necessary for vindicating, clearing, and confirming many weighty and important truths. Delivered in several lectures, by that learned, laborious, and faithfull servant of Jesus Christ, James Durham, late Minister of the Gospel in Glasgow. To which is affixed a brief summary of the whole book, with a twofold index, one of the several digressions, another of the chief and principall purposes and words contained in this treatise.
Edinburgh: printed by Christopher Higgins, 1658
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. That though all mutual Covenants have their conditions; yet are they to be distinguished, because sometimes the Covenant is such, as entering into it entitleth to the benefits comprehended in it, as in a Marriage-covenant, entry thereunto entitleth the Wife unto the Husband, and all that is his: sometimes again, the relation must not only be entered, but all the terms thereof actually performed, before there be a right to the thing promised; thus is the covenant betwixt a Master and a Servant: for though the Servant be the Masters Servant at the first instant of the agreement, yet hath he not a right to the covenanted hire, till he hath performed the service and accomplished his Term: in the first of these Covenants, that which entereth one in that relation, is the condition, not so in the second.
2. That though all mutual Covenants have their conditions; yet are they to be distinguished, because sometimes the Covenant is such, as entering into it intitleth to the benefits comprehended in it, as in a Marriage-covenant, entry thereunto intitleth the Wife unto the Husband, and all that is his: sometimes again, the relation must not only be entered, but all the terms thereof actually performed, before there be a right to the thing promised; thus is the covenant betwixt a Master and a Servant: for though the Servant be the Masters Servant at the first instant of the agreement, yet hath he not a right to the covenanted hire, till he hath performed the service and accomplished his Term: in the first of these Covenants, that which entereth one in that relation, is the condition, not so in the second.
3. Hence we may distinguish the condition of a Covenant: sometimes it is taken materially (to say so) and more largely, to wit, for all the duties that are required of one in that relation, and so a Wives dutifulness to her Husband after Marriage, and an adopted Sons dutifulness to his Father after adoption, &c. may be called conditions of the Marriage-covenant, and of adoption: sometimes again▪ a condition is taken more strictly, and, to say so, formally, that is, for such a thing as maketh up the relation, and entitles one to, and instates him in, the privileges Covenanted: So, formal consenting in Marriage, is the condition; and a Sons actual accepting of the offered adoption, and engaging himself to be dutiful, do enstate him in the privilege of a Son, although he hath not yet actually performed all that he is engaged unto: and in this respect, the actual performing of some duties, is rather the duty of one in such a relation, than the condition required to the up-making of it.