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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.
If we take from History a view of after-times, it spread to Afric, Spain; yea, to Britain it self, as is testified by the most Ancient writers, whether by Simon Zealots, or Joseph of Arimathea, or by some of the Apostles themselves, as is asserted by Cent. Magd. Cent. 2. Fox, White in his way, Usher de suc. Eccl. Brit. we shall not determine. This is clear from Tertullian Apol. adv. Gentes, that before his days, Britain, which was inaccessible to the Roman Armies, was made subject to Christ by the Gospel. This is enough to prove the event to answer the type, and that this horse hath conquered according as was foretold, the Church at that time being enlarged in bounds, increased in number, shining by the gifts of Ministers and lives of Professors, and being in a great measure, for a time kept from being overrun with Errors and Schism. This horse and rider, though He began to conquer then, He hath not altogether given over yet, though for a time He may seem to halt: when the world is again restored from Antichristian darkness, ye will find Him thus mounted, chap. 19.
If we take from Historie a view of after-times, it spread to Africk, Spain; yea, to Britain it self, as is testified by the most Ancient writers, whether by Simon Zelotes, or Ioseph of Arimathea, or by some of the Apostles themselves, as is asserted by Cent. Magd. Cent. 2. Foxe, White in his way, Usher de suc. Eccl. Brit. we shall not determine. This is clear from Tertullian Apol. adv. Gentes, that before his dayes, Britain, which was inaccessible to the Romane Armies, was made subject to Christ by the Gospel. This is enough to prove the event to answer the type, and that this horse hath conquered according as was foretold, the Church at that time being enlarged in bounds, increased in number, shining by the gifts of Ministers and lives of Professors, and being in a great measure, for a time keeped from being overrun with Errors and Schism. This horse and rider, though He began to conquer then, He hath not altogether given over yet, though for a time He may seem to halt: when the world is again restored from Antichristian darknesse, ye will find Him thus mounted, chap. 19.
For general Doctrines ye may Observe these, 1. That the preaching of the Gospel (more than any other dispensation) cometh not by guess amongst a people, but is sent, and ordered as other dispensations are, and hath a particular Commission. It is one of the horses He sendeth here: and hence it is that it is sent to, and preached in one place, and not in another. So,