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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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The third circumstance, is, the voice which he heard, and what it said, and the first voice which I heard, &c. that is, the former voice which I heard, Chap. 1. vers. 10, 11. The voice of our Lord Jesus Christ, which said there, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last; that same voice speaketh again, and reneweth Johns Commission to come, and see, and write; and the voice biddeth him, come up hither, and he will show him, &c. to tell that a heavenly mind is a great furtherance to acquaintance with the Mysteries of God, and earthly-mindedness is a great hinderance and obstruction; and then he proposeth what things he hath to show him, Things which must be hereafter. So that in the explication ⟨p. 270⟩and application of this revelation, we are not to look back to the four Monarchies, but to Christs way with His Church in the days of the Gospel, according to the first general which we premitted.
The third circumstance, is, the voice which he heard, and what it said, and the first voice which I heard, &c. that is, the former voice which I heard, Chap. 1. vers. 10, 11. The voice of our Lord Jesus Christ, which said there, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last; that same voice speaketh again, and reneweth Iohns Commission to come, and see, and write; and the voice biddeth him, come up hither, and he will shew him, &c. to tell that a heavenly mind is a great furtherance to acquaintance with the Mysteries of God, and earthly-mindednesse is a great hinderance and obstruction; and then he proposeth what things he hath to shew him, Things which must be hereafter. So that in the expli•ation ⟨p. 270⟩and application of this revelation, we are not to look back to the four Monarchies, but to Christs way with His Church in the dayes of the Gospel, according to the first generall which we premitted.
The fourth circumstance, is, vers. 2. And immediately I was in the Spirit: whereby it is like, there hath been some interval betwixt the ecstasy he was in, Chap. 1. vers. 10. and this ecstasy of spirit he is now in: and it is the second way how our Lord Jesus fitteth John to receive these following Mysteries: First, He carrieth up his affections, and maketh him Heavenly, and then ravisheth him in the spirit, whereby (as Chap. 1.10.) in an extraordinary way John is, as it were, taken out of himself, put in an ecstasy, impressions of things to come made on his spirit, and palpably and visibly made discernible to him, in a Spiritual way, as if he had seen them with his bodily eyes.