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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
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.
In this fourth Chapter, beside some circumstances, making way to the vision, we have these three principal things, 1. A stately description of the Majesty of God, who is described in His own appearance, as sitting upon a Throne, like a Jasper, and a Sardine stone, &c. vers. 3. which doth set forth (to speak so) the posture wherein God appeareth to John, thus stately in Majesty. They are excellent expressions, and yet they come far short of the thing they represent, but they are the furthest that men can win to, to wit, by things known, to express, or someway to conceive an unconceivable thing. 2. We have a description of His train and attendants, set out at large from the beginning of the 4. vers. to vers. 8. wherein God is described from all the royal attendants that wait on Him, and the excellent and stately way He is waited upon. 3. From the midst of the 8. vers. to the end of the Chapter, we have a description of the Glory of God, from the work and exercise that these attendants are about: for, vers. 8. it is said, They rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Which was, and is, and is to come. And the expressions of all the glory they gave Him, are set out in several circumstances, to the end.
In this fourth Chapter, beside some circumstances, making way to the vision, we have these three principall things, 1. A stately description of the Majesty of God, who is described in His own appearance, as sitting upon a Throne, like a Jasper, and a Sardin stone, &c. vers. 3. which doth set forth (to speak so) the posture wherein God appeareth to Iohn, thus stately in Majesty. They are excellent expressions, and yet they come far short of the thing they represent, but they are the furthest that men can win to, to wit, by things known, to expresse, or someway to conceive an unconceivable thing. 2. We have a description of His train and attendants, set out at large from the beginning of the 4. vers. to vers. 8. wherein God is described from all the roiall attendants that wait on Him, and the excellent and stately way He is waited upon. 3. From the midst of the 8. vers. to the end of the Chapter, we have a description of the Glory of God, from the work and exercise that these attendants are about: for, vers. 8. it is said, They rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Which was, and is, and is to come. And the expressions of all the glory they gave Him, are set out in several circumstances, to the end.