A37035:1763
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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Lastly, This sympathy of the humane nature Man-christ, is agreeable unto His divine will; for, though there be two Nature, yet there is but one Person; and though He hath different wills, yet He cannot have opposite wills; and therefore what He may be conceived in His will and pity to will to us as man, that same must be conceived to be made effectual to us as He is God, which is the conclusion of this consolation.
Lastly, This sympathie of the humane nature Man-christ, is agreeable unto His divine will; for, though there be two Nature, yet there is but one Person; and though He hath different wills, yet He cannot have opposite wills; and therefore what He may be conceived in His will and pity to will to us as man, that same must be conceived to be made effectuall to us as He is God, which is the conclusion of this consolation.
Again, we said, this humane sympathy may be considered as it putteth us in a capacity to conceive of the consolation that cometh by Him; for, the more Spiritual an object be, the less do we conceive of it, and when the Scripture speaketh of the Lords bowels and sympathy, that is not easily reached or conceived: but when we have the bowels, or sympathy, of a true man spoken of, we are more able to reach that and know what it is, and so are more ready to be affected with the consolation that suiteth so with us: we conceive it is no little part of the Believers consolation, that in Gods condescension, this sympathy is so moulded as to keep full the properties of the humane nature: now, the Believer hath Him as it were His brother, that sucked the breasts of his mother; now he hath Him as his friend, having the same affections and qualifications that he himself hath, yet sinless; now he may sometimes gather from his own affections within himself, the earning of the bowels ⟨p. 413⟩of Christ or a resemblance of what is in Him, and may conclude, O what vast bowels an sympathy must be in Him! and yet all this is but a poor hint of the excellent and strong consolation that this part of our Lords Priest-hood furnisheth. What must Jesus be, when known and possessed? and what might His people be in the triumph of a comfortable life, if the breasts of those consolations were sucked by them?