A37035:1696
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.
To show, 1. That words are wanting, and cannot be gotten, even by Angels in heaven, to express the Glory due to God; they are swallowed up with it, it goeth beyond their conception and expression; for, it over-reacheth all created expressions and apprehensions so far that it is no marvel it do so here. 2. To show, that whatever is glorious, or a ground of thanksgiving, or the object of praise, or the subject of commendation, it is in Him, and in Him alone, and to be attributed to Him with all humility by the most glorious creatures; it is in Him, and not in them, A consideration, 1. exceedingly upstirring, to praise and admire Him. 2. To cry down in comparison all other things, as weak and empty. 3. Comfortable to Gods people, who have all these things in Him alone. There is no ground of praise imaginable, not any thing which might have laid, or may lay, any obligation on a creature to God, as having obtained a good turn, but that is in God, and may be expected from Him. 4. To show our duty both in dependence on Him, and thanksgiving to Him. 2. This Song is to be considered in respect of the object of it: in which respect, it differeth from the Song of the redeemed to God and the Lamb, yet they meet in one; for, it secludeth not the Lamb, but taketh Him in with the Father and Spirit. This being divine Worship, proper and peculiar to God, Christ in it is looked on as God; and God here is essentially to be considered. Whence we may gather, how to interpret their Song, Chap. 5. the one, no question, being of equal extent with the other. 3. This song is to be considered in respect of its manner, 1. That it is in generals, as most comprehensive; for, (Psal. 106.2.) Who can show forth all his praise? His thoughts to in-ward pass reckoning, Psal. 40.5. 2. That it beginneth and endeth with Amen, as consisting more in their affection and wish, than in their expression, beginning with a conviction that it overpowereth them, yet undertaking it, as Psal. 106. and going on, and no more satisfied at the close than when they began, but ending just so as alway beginning, and beginning so as never to end; An evidence of a good frame of these that praise; they are as ready to begin when they have ⟨p. 397⟩done, as when they began, rather thinking their praise a consenting to praise, than actual praising.