A37035:1579
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.
The mutation brought on by this judgement, is so universal upon all things, and so sudden, being contained under one seal, that it can hardly be paralleled by any particular event of such an invasion: and therefore is not to be applied to them.
The mutation brought on by this judgement, is so universall upon all things, and so suddain, being contained under one seal, that it can hardly be paralleled by any particular event of such an invasion: and therefore is not to be applied to them.
Upon these grounds it is, why we conceive this seal to differ from the first four, in these two, 1. The type is not a horse and a rider. 1. Because the object is not the same. These first four concern the Church immediately, this concerneth its enemies. 2. Because though the Lord ordereth judgements upon the most wicked men by His providence; yet this type holdeth forth judgement in a more boundless way without such limitations and restrictions as the former dispensations towards the Church (typified by horse and riders with their several commissions) did admit. 2. In this seal, there is no word of advertisement to come and see, as was in the former four. The reason is, because God sendeth not Ministers unto, not alloweth warnings upon His enemies as He doth upon His people. To conclude then, we say, this seal relateth not, first, to the end of the world. Nor, 2. to the persecution of the Church under Antichrist. And, 3. nor to the invasion of the Empire by Goths, Vandals, &c. and other Heathen Nations: these invasions were not stated palpably on Christs account, as manifestly owning His interest, such as this seal importeth. It remaineth then to be understood of some singular and extraordinary change on the Romans Empire, and its Heathen Emperors, whereby it becometh quite another thing, persecution put to an end, persecutors brought unto judgement, and that by such instruments as maintained Christs quarrel against them, and with such success as should extort the acknowledgement thereof from the persecutors themselves. All which characters, as they are now clearly ⟨p. 373⟩