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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
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.
The second part of the inscription, is, a thanksgiving, from the midst of the 5. vers. to the 7. vers. when he hath wished Grace and Peace from Jesus Christ, whom he calls the first begotten from the dead: because by virtue of Him, all do arise; and because He was the first that rose and went to Heaven (for, though Enoch and Elijah be personally in Heaven, they tasted not of death; and so cannot be called the first begotten from the dead; others died again, as Lazarus) And when he hath called Him the Prince of the Kings of the earth, as set down now at His Fathers right hand, as the Fathers Lord-Deputy, to point out His Mediatory and given Kingdom; and His reigning, for the good of the Elect, and to rule ⟨p. 22⟩others for their sake: though not to subdue and make them willing Subjects; yet, to bruise them with His Mace and Iron-Sceptre. When, I say, he is speaking thus of Jesus Christ, his heart beginneth to warm; and he breaketh out in a word of thanksgiving: wherein there is, 1. a description of the Person, to whom the thanksgiving is made. 2. The thanksgiving it self. The description is excellent, and of exceeding great consolation to the Church, as holding out Christs bowels, and the privileges and benefits that Believers have in and through Him. 1. In the Fountain they come from, Him that loved us. What a One is Christ? He is He who loved us: this is the Bosom-grace, from whence all other Graces and Benefits do flow, Prov. 8. everlasting love, and the first and chief stile in all our praise. If Believers would know who Christ is? It's he who loved us: a most comfortable stile. 2. In the particular benefits that flow from this love, and washed us from our sins in his own blood. Every word hath an emphasis in it: He had not an empty and complementing love; but such a love as moved Him to leave the height of Glory, and come down and take on our nature; and in that nature to die, and shed His blood for us; and by that blood, to wash us from the filthiness and guilt of sin, in taking away the evil of sin and wrath. And, in that He is said to wash us from sin in His own blood, It suppones, 1. That sin is a filthiness. 2. That this filthiness is not easily washen away. 3. That there is a great efficacy and real virtue in the blood of Christ, to wash the soul and cleanse it from sin, as if it had never sinned;
The second part of the inscription, is, a thanksgiving, from the midst of the 5. vers. to the 7. vers. when he hath wished Grace and Peace from Iesus Christ, whom he calls the first begotten from the dead: because by vertue of Him, all do arise; and because He was the first that rose and went to Heaven (for, though Enoch and Elias be personally in Heaven, they tasted not of death; and so cannot be called the first begotten from the dead; others died again, as Lazarus) And when he hath called Him the Prince of the Kings of the earth, as set down now at His Fathers right hand, as the Fathers Lord-Deputy, to point out His Mediatory and given Kingdom; and His reigning, for the good of the Elect, and to rule