A37035:1466
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.
1. The Gospel drew men from the old Heathenish way of serving Idols, and by force of reason did evidence the nothingness of Idolatry, and vanity of that worship which was used by these Emperors, and almost all the world. Upon this, Satan took occasion to charge Christians with singularity, in taking up a Religion of their own; and with pride, in counting themselves wiser then their Predecessors; and to be insufferable, as untractable men who would not follow the rest of the world; nay, not their own Emperors, nor Predecessors in the matter of their Religion, but took them to a new way of their own: all which, was exceedingly heightened by the devil, to make Christians and Christianity odious. This pretext is frequent.
1. The Gospel drew men from the old Heathenish way of serving Idols, and by force of reason did evidence the nothingnesse of Idolatry, and vanity of that worship which was used by these Emperours, and almost all the world. Upon this, Satan took occasion to charge Christians with singularity, in taking up a Religion of their own; and with pride, in counting themselves wiser then their Predecessors; and to be insufferable, as untractable men who would not follow the rest of the world; nay, not their own Emperors, nor Predecessors in the matter of their Religion, but took them to a new way of their own: all which, was exceedingly heightened by the devil, to make Christians and Christianity odious. This pretext is frequent.
2. A second was, The devil striving to make Christianity suspected unto the great men of the world, as inconsistent with civil Authority, and tending to the eclipsing and diminishing of temporal greatness, dominion, and power of Kings: which was confirmed by these things. 1. Ministers freedom in reproving the faults of all, and their not sparing nor flattering of any, often occasioned the enmity of great men, who thought that derogatory to their honour, and unbecoming inferiors. Therefore, to suppress that, often the most faithful men were persecuted, as we see in that instance of Herod, in John the Baptist, Matth. 14. 2