A37035:1598
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 other tyrant in the East (to wit, Maximinus, who was called Cesar) had been industrious to invent tortures for Christians, especially to pull out their eyes, was at last defeat, and in a base habit, made to hide himself, and thereafter pursued by sickness, which made both his eyes to leap out; by which, he was necessitated to confess, that only the God of Christians was God; and that he had been mistaken concerning the gods whom he choose to worship: all which he had found to be truth by experience it self. Which words were uttered by him, being even expiring, as Eusebius testifieth, de vita Constantius, lib. 2. cap. 52. Lioinius again, who could not be feared from persecution by any of these examples (though in some thereof himself had been actor, whiles he was in confederacy with Constantine) was after many defects and flights convinced of his folly, and made to vent his indignation against these Idolatrous Priests who had made him disdain Constantin's God, and put confidence in the multitude of old gods, as they called them. So that he and his chief associates being taken, and brought to punishment by Constantius, were made to understand how great and admirable the God of Constantine was, de vita Constant. lib. 2. cap. 18. Which remarkable judgements, and confessions, as also of many other great men their adherents, as if they were speaking out the words contained in the Text, ye will find in the forecited History, and in Cent. Magd. de penis persecutorium.
The other tyrant in the East (to wit, Maximinus, who was called Cesar) had been industrious to invent tortures for Christians, especially to pull out their eyes, was at last defeat, and in a base habit, made to hide himself, and thereafter pursued by sicknesse, which made both his eyes to leap out; by which, he was necessitated to confesse, that only the God of Christians was God; and that he had been mistaken concerning the gods whom he choose to worship: all which he had found to be truth by experience it self. Which words were uttered by him, being even expiring, as Eusebius testifieth, de vita Constantius, lib. 2. cap. 52. Lioinius again, who could not be fearred from persecution by any of these examples (though in some thereof himself had been actor, whiles he was in confedera•i• with Constantine) was after many defects and flights convinced of his folly, and made to vent his indignation against these Idolatrous Priests who had made him disdain Constantin's God, and put confidence in the multitude of old gods, as they called them. So that he and his chief associates being taken, and brought to punishment by Constantius, were made to understand how great and admirable the God of Constantine was, de vita Constant. lib. 2. cap. 18. Which remarkable judgements, and confessions, as also of many other great men their adherents, as if they were speaking out the words contained in the Text, ye will find in the forecited History, and in Cent. Magd. de penis persecutorium.