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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.
2. For the type it self, the matter of it, is the same with the former, a horse and a rider; But in every other circumstance different, 1. His colour is pale, pointing forth a further degree of the Churches affliction: she was before fainting and swooning, but now draweth near to death, as the words afterward clear. 2. The rider is named with a terrible name, […] that sat on him was Death: which holdeth forth, 1. A spreading of death to many, so ⟨p. 356⟩it is expounded, a fourth part of the earth shall be killed. 2. That there should be many sorts of death, and many ways to put an end to mens lives, as, Sword, Famine, Pestilence, &c. 3. He getteth this name of Death, to import the cruel kinds of death which Christians should be obnoxious to under this horrid and barbarous persecution, beyond what formerly they felt. The third thing peculiar to this rider, is, his convoy, which is suitable to his name, and further expresseth the terribleness of the event, and hell, or the grave, followed with him. The meaning is, that death and mortality was so frequent, that in every place were graves, and that this dispensation brought men so frequently to death, that where ever it came, there was need of graves to receive them. 1. We expound it rather of the grave, than hell, in this place, not only because the same word in Hebrew and Greek doth signify both; but because it is ordinary to them, in expressing a desperate-like condition, to join death and the grave together, Job. 17.1. and 13. And 2. because this death especially relateth unto the Church; and therefore must be understood of the grave, rather than of hell.
2. For the type it self, the matter of it, is the same with the former, a horse and a rider; But in every other circumstance different, 1. His colour is pale, pointing forth a further degree of the Churches affliction: she was before fainting and swooning, but now draweth near to death, as the words afterward clear. 2. The rider is named with a terrible name, 〈…〉 that sat on him was Death: which holdeth forth, 1. A spreading of death to many, so ⟨p. 356⟩it is expounded, a fourth part of the earth shall be killed. 2. That there should be many sorts of death, and many wayes to put an end to mens lives, as, Sword, Famine, Pestilence, &c. 3. He getteth this name of Death, to import the cruel kinds of death which Christians should be obnoxious to under this horrid and barbarous persecution, beyond what formerly they felt. The third thing peculiar to this rider, is, his convoy, which is suitable to his name, and further expresseth the terriblenesse of the event, and hell, or the grave, followed with him. The meaning is, that death and mortality was so frequent, that in every place were graves, and that this dispensation brought men so frequently to death, that where ever it came, there was need of graves to receive them. 1. We expound it rather of the grave, than hell, in this place, not only because the same word in Hebrew and Greek doth signifie both; but because it is ordinary to them, in expressing a desperate-like condition, to joyn death and the grave together,