A37035:1568
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.
WE proceed now to the opening of the sixth seal, which holdeth forth some most terrible and dreadful dispensation, and that both in respect of the type and the word of explication or effects mentioned for opening of the type.
WE proceed now to the opening of the sixth seal, which holdeth forth some most terrible and dreadfull dispensation, and that both in respect of the type and the word of explication or effects mentioned for opening of the type.
The type is set down, vers. 12. in three expressions, 1. There was a great earthquake. 2. The Sun became black as sackcloth of hair. 3. The Moon became as blood. The effects (which serve for explication of the former) follow, and are of two sorts, 1. Upon the reasonless creature, in three instances, 1. The Stars fall from heaven, vers. 13. 2. Upon the heavens, they depart, &c. vers. 14. initio. The third is upon the earth, the mountains, (which are most stable in the continent) the Islands (which are most remote in the sea) both are moved out of their place, Ibid.
The type is set down, vers. 12. in three expressions, 1. There was a great earthquake. 2. The Sun became black as sackcloth of hair. 3. The Moon became as bloud. The effects (which serve for explication of the former) follow, and are of two sorts, 1. Upon the reasonlesse creature, in three instances, 1. The Stars fall from heaven, vers. 13. 2. Upon the heavens, they depart, &c. vers. 14. initio. The third is upon the earth, the mountains, (which are most stable in the continent) the Islands (which are most remote in the sea) both are moved out of their place, Ibid.
The second sort of effects, are upon reasonable men of all sorts, Kings, great men, rich men, Captains, mighty men, bond men, and free men. Great terror is upon all these: which is two ways evidenced, 1. In what they did, they hid themselves in the dens, &c. vers. 15. 2. In what they said unto the mountains and rocks, fall on us, and hide us, &c. vers. 16, Lastly, the rise of all this terror, and these dreadful effects, is more plainly expressed, to wit, the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of His wrath is come, verse 17.