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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 1 › Chapter 4
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Fourthly, We will also find many expressions borrowed from the Old Testament, and from the manner of the Prophets therein, especially from Daniel, Ezekiel, and Zechariah; yet often these expressions are to set forth a different thing from what was principally intended by them under the Old Testament; as by considering the particulars in the progress, will be clear.
Fourthly, We will also find many expressions borrowed from the Old Testament, and from the manner of the Prophets therein, especially from Daniel, Ezekiel, and Zechariah; yet often these expressions are to set forth a different thing from what was principally intended by them under the Old Testament; as by considering the particulars in the progresse, will be clear.
We come now to the preparation to the first prophecy, in the fourth and fifth Chapters: which also in some respect may be called preparatory to all the visions that follow. It hath two parts: the fourth Chapter holdeth out the Majesty of God the Creator, and expresseth His praise, considering Him as such: the fifth Chapter holdeth out the Glory and Majesty of our Lord Jesus Christ the Mediator and Redeemer; this is not to be understood as if the Son were not honoured in the fourth Chapter with the Father, or the Father with the Son in the fifth: for, that cannot be, seeing they are One God▪ and the honour that is given in both Chapters is divine. But the works of Creation and Redemption, being the ⟨p. 269⟩grounds upon which all creatures, especially the Redeemed, are obliged to praise God, and the great evidences of His manifold Glory, Therefore both of them are explicitly spoken to, and the Lord, under both these considerations, taken up; thereby to express Him to be the more eminently and singularly glorious: so, when the ground of the praise is given in the 4. Chap. vers. 11. it is, Thou are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory, and honour, and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. Again, in the fifth Chapter, the work of Redemption is mentioned, as we may gather from vers. 9, and 12. yet so, as both are put together in the same thanksgiving, Chap. 5. vers. 13.