A37035:1750
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.
If it be asked, where the difference lieth? We answer, especially in these three or four, First, in the ground of the intercession: it was then done in virtue of the sacrifice to be offered; now it is performed by, and grounded upon, the virtue of the satisfaction that is already given and finished upon the Cross. Secondly, there is a difference in respect of the blessed Intercessor, who, being then God, hath now taken a new relation to Him, by assuming our nature in one person to His Divine Nature; whereby He is not only capable in a more suitable way to sympathize, but actually hath submitted Himself to suffer, for this very end, as was formerly hinted. So that though He cannot have larger bowels, than ⟨p. 410⟩formerly He had; yet hath He now a new experimental way of being affected with our griefs, and of being provoked to heal the same. Thirdly, There followeth a difference in His manner of interceding, which is now done in our nature, for in it He appeareth before God; also touches of our ill•, and His sympathy with us, are more suitable to our nature, and do more experimentally impress and affect Him than before. Lastly, There is th•s difference, that though before there was consolation to H•s people from H•s intercession; yet it is much more now, and therefore it is so often and fully insisted on in the New Testament, beside what was hinted, that then His sympathy flowed from His deputation and appointment, but now from His humane Nature and the experience thereof.
If it be asked, where the difference lyeth? We answer, especially in these three or four, First, in the ground of the intercession: it was then done in vertue of the sacrifice to be offered; now it is performed by, and grounded upon, the vertue of the satisfaction that is already given and finished upon the Crosse. Secondly, there is a difference in respect of the blessed Intercessor, who, being then God, hath now taken a new relation to Him, by assuming our nature in one person to His Divine Nature; whereby He is not only capable in a more suitable way to sympathize, but actually hath submitted Himself to suffer, for this very end, as was formerly hinted. So that though He cannot have larger bowels, than ⟨p. 410⟩