A37035:1650
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.
they are distinguished, not in respect of Nation or Kindred, as if by each of them were set forth some part of the Gospel-church contemporary one with the other, but in respect of diverse successive states of the Church, belonging to diverse times, as that however the Gospel-church immediately after the Christian Religion shall obtain liberty and authority, shall be brought unto great straits, and reduced to a few number (as Gods Church was in the days of the Old Testament) yet, it shall afterward break forth and flourish among all Nations, so that the Church in the latter days shall be as far extended for number and diversity of people beyond what the Church shall be under Antichrist, as the Gospel-church was at its first spreading, extended beyond the Church of the Jews: and therefore the whole pure professors of the Church, during this storm, being comprehended under these that are sealed out of the several Tribes, it cannot be astricted unto the natural Jews.
they are distinguished, not in respect of Nation or Kindred, as if by each of them were set forth some part of the Gospel-church contemporary one with the other, but in respect of diverse successive states of the Church, belonging to diverse times, as that however the Gospel-church immediately after the Christian Religion shall obtain liberty and authority, shall be brought unto great straits, and reduced to a few number (as Gods Church was in the dayes of the Old Testament) yet, it shall afterward break forth and flourish among all Nations, so that the Church in the latter dayes shall be as far extended for number and diversity of people beyond what the Church shall be under Antichrist, as the Gospel-church was at its first spreading, extended beyond the Church of the Iews: and therefore the whole pure professours of the Church, during this storm, being comprehended under these that are sealed out of the severall Tribes, it cannot be astricted unto the natural Iews.
That this comparison and opposition of Jews with Gentiles, or the smaller number with the greater, doth belong to several states of the Church, will appear by this, that these sealed ones are living in the time of a storm and great tribulation, and whileas pure profession, and professors of Jesus Christ are exceeding rare, as the scope here and the places formerly cited, Chap. 9.13, 14. do clear. That innumerable company again, are remarkable for their number, and are said to have come out of great tribulation (as if now the storm were past) as Victors and Conquerors having palms in their hands. This innumerable company therefore must denotate a following outgate of the former storm; and so by each of them, some condition of the whole Gospel-church, and not of Jews or Gentiles severally, is typified.