A37035:1424
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
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whereupon, 4 the rage and malice of men do break out against the Gospel and the professors of it, as the causes of all their evil, which procureth again new judgements from God. By which we may see what interwoven connection there is amongst these things, to wit, the Churches sufferings and the worlds (which hath been long since observed by Tertullian and Cyprian in their Apologies contra Scapulam and Demetrium) But this we think, that though there might be (and no question were,) judgements on the world for despising the Gospel, and particular plagues on persecutors; yet during that time, there was no such general reckoning with them, nor are they such judgements which these seals primarily describe, which is all we would say.
whereupon, 4 the rage and malice of men do break out against the Gospel and the professors of it, as the causes of all their evil, which procureth again new judgements from God. By which we may see what interwoven connexion there is amongst these things, to wit, the Churches su••erings and the worlds (which hath been long since observed by Tertullian and Cyprian in their Apologies contra Scapulam and Demetrium) But this we think, that though there might be (and no question were,) judgements on the world for despising the Gospel, and particular plagues on persecurers; yet during that time, there was no such generall reckoning with them, nor are they such judgements which these seals primarily describe, which is all we would say.
For understanding these seals, or types in them, we would have respect to these three, 1. To the key or series of the Story before expressed from the fifth seal. 2. To the nature of the type it self, being compared with other Scriptures. 3. To the events as they are recorded in story.