A37035:1717
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.
LECTURE I.
CHAP. VIII.
Vers. 1. And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. 2. And I saw the seven Angels which stood before God, and to them were given seven trumpets. 3. And another Angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all Saints upon the golden altar, which was before the throne. 4. And the smoke of the incense which came with the prayers of the Saints, ascended up before God, out of the Angels hand.
Vers. 1. ANd when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. 2. And I saw the seven Angels which stood before God, and to them were given seven trumpets. 3. And another Angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all Saints upon the golden altar, which was before the throne. 4. And the smoke of the incense which came with the prayers of the Saints, ascended up before God, out of the Angels hand.
WE have heard how under the former six seals the Lord hath been revealing, and foreshowing the state of the Church here on earth till that first great change of bringing Christianity in request publicly, and making it to be owned and countenanced by Authority in the world, by reason whereof, Idolaters and persecuter should be disowned and discountenanced; so far the sixth seal came to foreshow and hold out the shaking and overturning of that Idolatrous world, and bringing horror and trembling on persecutors; Before he came to prosecute the opening of the seventh seal (which bringeth the history of the Church that continueth to the end of the world in two periods, one, of the trumpets, another, of the vials) he hinted in the former Chapter at this sad storm which was coming on the Church from all airts, and at our Lords stepping in to hold these winds from breaking loose till He had sealed a number that He was to preserve from being carried away with the errors of the time.