A37035:1522
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.
LECTURE VI.
Vers. 9. And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the Word of God, and for the testimony which they held.
Vers. 9. And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the Word of God, and for the testimonie which they held.
IN the former three seals we have heard many sad events prophesied of, to befall the Church, every one sadder than the former, till at last, Death and the Grave came as the yondmost step of temporal affliction, so that men might now be in a doubt what had become of the many souls that had been murdered for Jesus Christ, and if it had not been better to have wanted the white Horse and his rider, or not to have stuck so to the profession of the Gospel, than to have suffered so many sad things for it.
IN the former three seals we have heard many sad events prophesied of, to befall the Church, every one sadder than the former, till at last, Death and the Grave came as the yondmost step of temporall affliction, so that men might now be in a doubt what had become of the many souls that had been murdered for Jesus Christ, and if it had not been better to have wanted the white Horse and his rider, or not to have stuck so to the profession of the Gospel, than to have suffered so many sad things for it.