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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
AN EXPOSITION Of the BOOK of the REVELATION. › Lecture 3 › Concerning Repentance.
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.
We come now to the third thing proposed, that is, if Repentance be necessary to a justified person for obtaining the pardon of sins committed after Justification, as well as before it. To which we Answer shortly, That the Scripture doth hold forth the same necessity in this case, as in the former. 1. Because there is the same order in the Commands that are given, and the promises that are made to them for obtaining pardon, as may be gathered from the Epistle to these in Ephesus, who may well be supponed to be Believers; and the ground, is general, in this Epistle to Laodicea, vers. 19. Whom I love, I rebuke and chasten, (saith the Lord) be zealous therefore and repent: where Repentance is put-in as a necessary mids for removing of Gods rebuke and quarrel, even from them whom He loveth. 2. The promises made to Believers, run in the same terms, 1 Joh. 1.9. If we confess, God is faithful to pardon, &c. where John keepeth the same method in reference to pardon, even when he wrote to Believers; and putteth himself in the roll. 3. Experience doth also confirm the same, as we may gather from David, Psal. 32.3.4, &c. While I kept silence, my bones waxed old, &c. but I confessed unto thee, and thou forgavest me, &c. In which place, this connection and order is clear. Neither can it be said that David only obtained the sense of pardon, 1. Because he himself doth account it pardon, and such happiness as doth proceed from the not imputation of sin. 2. Because, Rom. 4. the Apostle maketh use of this experience for the describing and confirming of Justification it self: which could not have been, if the place had spoke only of the declaration thereof. And it cannot be otherwise, seeing the Law curseth every sinner, and the Gospel absolveth none but the penitent. It may be gathered also from Nathan's word to David, 2 Sam. 12. declaring his sin to be pardoned after his acknowledging, which supposeth it not to have been so before that time. So also it may be gathered from the Lords dealing with Jobs friends. Job 42. with whom the Lord was angry, till they humbled themselves before God.
We come now to the third thing proposed, that is, if Repentance be necessary to a justified person for obtaining the pardon of sins committed after Justification, as well as before it. To which we Answer shortly, That the Scripture doth hold forth the same necessity in this case, as in the former. 1. Because there is the same order in the Commands that are given, and the promises that are made to them for obtaining pardon, as may be gathered from the Epistle to these in Ephesus, who may well be supponed to be Believers; and the ground, is generall, in this Epistle to Laodicea, vers. 19. Whom I love, I rebuke and chasten, (saith the Lord) be zealous therefore and repent: where Repentance is put-in as a necessary mids for removing of Gods rebuke and quarrel, even from them whom He loveth. 2. The promises made to Believers, run in the same terms,