A37035:1665
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.
It will not be meet nor needful to enquire after mysteries in the number or names; it is like, the Lord, giving His Church the title of Israel, followeth the reckoning of twelve Tribes, and multiplieth that by twelves, which cometh in whole to that number one hundred forty and four thousand. We shall only touch these things as considerable,
It will not be meet nor needfull to enquire after mysteries in the number or names; it is like, the Lord, giving His Church the title of Israel, followeth the reckoning of twelve Tribes, and multiplieth that by twelves, which cometh in whole to that number one hundred fourty and four thousand. We shall only touch these things as considerable,
1. That in the order, the age is not kept, and children of the bound and free-woman are promiscuously named; to let us see, that in Christ Jesus there are neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor free; and that external privileges are of no value, Gal. 3.28. 2. Judah is preferred and first named, and Reuben, though the first-born, passed by, 1. To show that relation to Christ, who was of the Tribe of Judah, and of whom David was, casteth the balance and is the main privilege. 2. Reuben lost his birth-right by defiling his fathers bed; and Simeon, by his killing the Sichemits: whence it is clear, that guiltiness cuteth men off from privileges, and hath a broad and long tail of curses for a long continuance, Gen. 49.3, 4. 3. Neither Dan nor Ephraim are mentioned; but, for Ephraim, Joseph is named; Dan is also omitted, (1 Chron. 1.3, 4.) when all the other Tribes are reckoned in their genealogies; so also Ephraim and Manasseh, in Deut. 33. It would seem for these reasons, (for, that conceit of omitting Dan here, because Antichrist is to come of him, is a groundless fable, and rejected by Bellar. lib. 3. de Pontif. cap. 12. who expoundeth the Scriptures ordinarily alleged, for proving that in a different sense,) 1. To show, Gods Sovereignty, manifesting it self especially in His passing-by of some and reckoning others in His roll, no less guilty. 2. To conform the number to the ordinary reckoning of Israel by twelve Tribes and no more, wherefore still one is omitted in the former reckonings. This number had not been kept, if Dan had been numbered when Levi also is mentioned. 3. Dan was soon overtaken with Idolatry, so was Ephraim,