A37035:1743
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
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Neither is it to be thought, that He intercedeth with such gesture and verbal expression, as men use with men, or as He Himself did in the days of His fl•sh, when He offered up prayers with strong cries and tears, which did become the state of His humiliation, but not of His Glorification. Though this be a mystery, yet we may humbly and soberly conceive it in these particulars,
Neither is it to be thought, that He interceedeth with such gesture and verbal expression, as men use with men, or as He Himself did in the dayes of His fl•sh, when He offered up prayers with strong cryes and tears, which did become the state of His humiliation, but not of His Glorification. Though this be a mystery, yet we may humbly and soberly conceive it in these particulars,
First, There is in this intercession a sympathy, and fellow-feeling in our Lord, which is the very great ground of this intercession. For, Jesus Christ, though glorified, is yet true Man, having the real and true properties of the humane nature, which make Him capable to be in another way affected with our afflictions and griefs than formerly; yea, not only so, but He was in H•s own person a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, and learned obedience by what He suffered, whereby not only is He man to sympathize with us simply as a man, but He is a man experimentally acquainted with grief, and for that end that He might be the more fit and able to succour these that should be in such a case, Heb. 2. vers. 17, 18. and 4. vers. 15, 16. Again, our blessed Lord Jesus, being God and Man in one person, by virtue of His Godhead He cannot be ignorant of the least affliction of His people; and by virtue of His Manhood, personally united to His Godhead, He cannot but be affected therewith, especially considering His being taught by experience, for this very end, that He might be a compassionate high Priest and the sooner touched with the infirmities of others: Now, this sympathy doth not only rise from the bae speculative knowledge which He hath of the afflictions of others, but it is wakened and entertained by that union of the Spirit betwixt the Head and the Members, whereby they become one; so that He that persecuteth the one, persecuteth the other, as is frequently asserted in the Scripture. From all this, there doth arise, in the Mediator so considered, an inclination, and (to say so) a natural propenseness to have these evils redressed, so that He cannot but desire the removing thereof: and this His desire, being of great weight before God, may be well counted intercession.