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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.
Reason 3. Gods intention and purpose in sending of the Gospel to a people or place, is ⟨p. 343⟩to conquer: and His way of conquering, is, to catch (as it were) whole draughts by His net at once (as we may see by the many thousands, Act. 2.3. and 4. that are gained by one preaching) and therefore as He never sends the Gospel, but where He hath some to gather, (so to speak) He keepeth the tide, and sendeth where, and at such time as He hath many together, having, as it were, fitted and trysted them for that end. As we may see from Mat. 9.37, 38. the fields are first ripened, then Labourers are sent to the Harvest. Every time is not Harvest-time, and therefore not a ripening time; but when He hath ripened a Kingdom, Town, or Parish, then, and not till then, ordinarily thrusts He out His Labourers, who speedily cut down the ripened grain: But as the Harvest doth not always continue, so neither doth this ripening; for, a Ministers success, is not always according to His pains, but according to the ripeness of the Field he labours in; and therefore he may, when the Harvest is past, be at more pains in the gleaning of a reaped Field, than at first to gather whole sheaves.
Reason 3. Gods intention and purpose in sending of the Gospel to a people or place, is ⟨p. 343⟩to conquer: and His way of conquering, is, to catch (as it were) whole draughts by His net at once (as we may see by the many thousands, Act. 2.3. and 4. that are gained by one preaching) and therefore as He never sends the Gospel, but where He hath some to gather, (so to speak) He keepeth the tide, and sendeth where, and at such time as He hath many together, having, as it were, fitted and trysted them for that end. As we may see from Mat. 9.37, 38. the fields are first ripened, then Labourers are sent to the Harvest. Every time is not Harvest-time, and therefore not a ripening time; but when He hath ripened a Kingdom, Town, or Parish, then, and not till then, ordinarily thrusts He out His Labourers, who speedily cut down the ripened grain: But as the Harvest doth not alwayes continue, so neither doth this ripening; for, a Ministers successe, is not alwayes according to His pains, but according to the ripnesse of the Field he labours in; and therefore he may, when the Harvest is past, be at more pains in the gleaning of a reaped Field, than at first to gather whole sheaves.