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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.
Now if it be asked, whether this famine, expressed by the type, be to be taken literally or figuratively, as it more generally comprehendeth all the troubles of the Church, both in reference to her outward and inward condition, according to the three acceptions mentioned? We Answer, figuratively: on these considerations, 1. The famine here mentioned, is some sad condition, peculiar to the Church. 2. Because it holdeth forth such a trouble as men are instrumental in, and therefore are liable to Gods vengeance for it, as is clear by the fifth seal following. 3. More particularly, the considering every thing in the type will make this out.
Now if it be asked, whether this famine, expressed by the type, be to be taken litterally or figuratively, as it more generally comprehendeth all the troubles of the Church, both in reference to her outward and inward condition, according to the three acceptions mentioned? We Answer, figuratively: on these considerations, 1. The famine here mentioned, is some sad condition, peculiar to the Church. 2. Because it holdeth forth such a trouble as men are instrumentall in, and therefore are liable to Gods vengeance for it, as is clear by the fifth seal following. 3. More particularly, the considering every thing in the type will make this out.
1. It agreeth well with the type: for, blackness on the Church, is spoken of in Scripture both as an effect of outward persecution from others, and inward carelessness and division; from which two grounds, the Church (Cant. 1.5, 6.) doth derive her blackness. Upon the one side, her mothers children were angry with her, and on the other, she had not kept the vineyard that was committed to her; which two had brought on blackness, as Sun-burning doth in these hot Countries.
1. It agreeth well with the type: for, blacknesse on the Church, is spoken of in Scripture both as an effect of outward persecution from others, and inward carelessenesse and division; from which two grounds, the Church (