A37035:1759
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.
That there is an humane sympathy in the Man-Christ with the Believer, cannot be denied, the Scriptures (whereof some passages have been cited) are so clear: only we shall give some properties thereof, for helping to understand the same so far as we can reach, First then, we say, it is a real and humane sympathy: when we say it is real, it doth not only import, that He knoweth the affliction• of His people, nor only that He mindeth ⟨p. 412⟩help to them, which two do agree to the Lord JEHOVAH; but it importeth a sensible, native, and (to say so) a natural touch of these evils; for, He is not one, that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, Heb. 4. This is as one brother is affected with the straits of another, especially straits that himself hath formerly felt; This must needs be asserted as that which followeth the reality of Christs Manhood, who, as such, cannot but be supposed to have what properties are belonging to a man. I called it humane sympathy, to distinguish it from that figurative sympathy which was applicable to Him before His incarnation. This sympathy is really for kind such as one friend hath to another, a father or mother to their children, as frequent expressions in Scripture do hold forth; and it is the believing of the reality of this humane sympathy, that openeth the door to all the following consolations, to wit, that our Lord Jesus hath a humane heart stirred and affected in that same manner, (yet unconceivably holy) as ours are towards our friends and children in their necessities: and though Christ be glorified, yet ceaseth He not to be true man, and so not to want this sympathy.
That there is an humane sympathie in the Man-Christ with the Believer, cannot be denied, the Scriptures (whereof some passages have been cited) are so clear: only we shall give some properties thereof, for helping to understand the same so far as we can reach, First then, we say, it is a reall and humane sympathie: when we say it is reall, it doth not only import, that He knoweth the affliction• of His people, nor only that He mind•th ⟨p. 412⟩help to them, which two do agree to the Lord JEHOVAH; but it importeth a sensible, native, and (to say so) a naturall touch of these evils; for, He is not one, that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities,