A37035:1487
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.
4. It speaketh such a famine as hath a reservation; so that though the beauty of the Church may be marred by it, and many things corrupted, Yet the main fundamental and soul-refreshing truths, which are the marrow of the Gospel (called the finest of the wheat, honey, wine and oil, Psal. 81.16. Isa. 25.) are in despite of all oppositions kept free for the refreshing of Gods People, by which it differeth from the overflowing of heresies under the trumpe••, where some persons are exempted, but no truth kept free from these winds, Chap. 7. but every green thing made to wither.
4. It speaketh such a famine as hath a reservation; so that though the beauty of the Church may be marred by it, and many things corrupted, Yet the main fundamentall and soul-refreshing truths, which are the marrow of the Gospel (called the finest of the wheat, honey, wine and oyl, Psal. 81.16. Isa. 25.) are in despight of all oppositions keeped free for the refreshing of Gods People, by which it differeth from the overflowing of heresies under the trumpe••, where some persons are exempted, but no truth keeped free from these winds, Chap. 7. but every green thing made to wither.
More particularly yet to make it out, we look upon it as applicable to the state of the Church during the second Century, after Domitians death which put a close to the second persecution, to wit, under Trajan, Hadrian, Antonium pius, Antoninus Philus, Commodus, Pertinax, Maximius and Severi•, which taketh in five several persecutions. The reasons why we apply it to this time, are,