A37035:1633
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
AN EXPOSITION Of the BOOK of the REVELATION. › Lecture 1 › Chapter 7
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 sum of this Verse, is, No sooner was the Church freed from open persecution, but the devil stirreth up Errors of all sorts, and that with great violence; whereby, in Gods righteous judgement, many secure earthly-minded, unstable and proud conceity professors were to be carried away; yet were they for a time restrained by Gods power, till, &c. From which, Observe,
The sum of this Verse, is, No sooner was the Church freed from open persecution, but the devil stirreth up Errours of all sorts, and that with great violence; whereby, in Gods righteous judgement, many secure earthly-minded, unstable and proud conceity professours were to be carried away; yet were they for a time restrained by Gods power, till, &c. From which, Observe,
1. That Error and Heresy waiteth upon the Churches outward prosperous condition; and no sooner is she freed from open persecution, but as soon the devil waiteth on to sow these tares. Chapter 12. when the child is delivered from persecution, the devil, the serpent, speweth out a flood after her: it was so in Constantin's time, unto which this relateth: The Church was scarcely landed from that sea of persecution, when the Heresy of Arius and other divisions, set vehemently upon the Church, as we will see in opening of the trumpets. It was so in the time of the Gospels breaking forth again in Germany; floods of Anabaptists, Libertines, Antinomians, &c. followed it, and somewhat of it hath been made out in our own experience in this Island. The devil who is a murderer and and a liar from the beginning, waiteth all opportunities to destroy, if so he may gain by Error what he could not attain by violence. Beside, men usually, then becoming more secure, and falling asleep, he hath the fairer occasion to sow his tares, which he doth not neglect. 2. Error and Heresy, is one of these plagues whereof God maketh use in His Justice to punish the ingrate world who have had the Gospel in peace and have abused it. Therefore when delusion cometh in its greatest height, as 2 Thess. 2.10. or, a false prophet cometh to speak lies in the name of the Lord,