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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.
This difference betwixt the Covenant of Works and of Grace, may be conceived thus: Suppose a debtor being sued for his own debt, should either plead no debt, or that he had paid it, or would pay it; this is the Covenant of Works: Again, that of Grace, is, as a ⟨p. 239⟩debtor acknowledging debt, but being unable to pay, pleadeth only the cautioners payment, and expecteth to be absolved upon that account; and not as if by a cautioners intervening, he had all the debt forgiven him to so much, or had a new bargain given him for a penny yearly, or a pepper-corn in the place of a thousand talents; and, in a word, so much down, or that for gold, ure of gold should be accepted: For so, 1. some would have their penny more weighty than others, and thereby be more justified than others, or at least have a better ground to be justified upon. 2. It would be still the same kind of condition, and so the same Covenant in kind (m•jus & min•s […] variant speciem:) for, paying of one bushel, for an hundred chalders, still saith it is victual-rent, although it be of Grace, that it is so little: and indeed so, the first Covenant might be called of Grace, because the good promised were so far beyond the rent required: and so it were but as a man that did at first require a talent, for that which were worth much more, and should afterward alter and require only a shekel. 3. It cannot be so; for, the sinners charge, is not that he wants his penny or pepper-corn, but that he hath broken the Law; his righteousness therefore must be such as doth meet that charge, as, Rom. 8.34. and so it must be such a righteousness as must stand before Justice, and be equipollent, at least, to his own fulfilling the Law, or his having satisfied the penalty thereof. 4. When the Apostle opposeth the righteousness of the Law and Gospel, he opposeth not as it were a thousand talents to a penny, or one sort of works to an other, but the righteousness of Christ, or, to be found in Him▪ to all kind of works whatsoever, Phil. 3.9. 2 Cor. 5.21.