A37035:1046
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.
If it be said, that Christ is our legal-righteousness, that is, that by Him we have satisfied the Covenant of Works, He having paid in our name; but Faith and obedience are our Evangelic-righteousness, that is, as He hath procured a new grant of life upon these easy terms in the Covenant of Grace, and so as by performing thereof we may come to have right to what He hath purchased in satisfying the first Covenant.
If it be said, that Christ is our legall-righteousnesse, that is, that by Him we have satisfied the Covenant of Works, He having paid in our name; but Faith and obedience are our Evangelick-righteousnesse, that is, as He hath procured a new grant of life upon these easie terms in the Covenant of Grace, and so as by performing thereof we may come to have right to what He hath purchased in satisfying the first Covenant.
Answ. 1. This mis-representeth Gods way of Covenanting, who hath not appointed our paying of a small rent (as it were a penny) to be the ground of our right unto Christs purchase; but seeing Christ became Cautioner in our name, to pay the debt, He hath appointed the debtors claiming of, and submitting unto his payment, to be the terms upon which he shall be absolved, as was at the entry to this discourse observed, and is clear from Philip. 3.9. where the righteousness of Faith (which is our Evangelic-righteousness, and opposed to works) and to be found in Christ, are one; and the one is explained by the other.
Answ. 1. This mis-representeth Gods way of Covenanting, who hath not appointed our paying of a small rent (as it were a peny) to be the ground of our right unto Christs purchase; but seing Christ became Cautioner in our name, to pay the debt, He hath appointed the debtors claiming of, and submitting unto his payment, to be the terms upon which he shall be absolved, as was at the entry to this discourse observed, and is clear from Philip. 3.9. where the righteousnesse of Faith (which is our Evangelick-righteousnesse, and opposed to works) and to be found in Christ, are one; and the one is explained by the other.