A37035:1785
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.
1. For its beginning, rise, and close, it is cleared before, to rise after the breaking of that little peace the Church enjoyed under Constantine, and to close at Antichrists begun fall, when he is brought to a height, and the vials begin to be poured out.
2. It is not only contemporary with, but hath respect unto, the prophecy of the beasts' Chap. 13. and Chap. 11. vers. 7. as also the rise and close of that prophecy of the beasts' ⟨p. 417⟩will fall under the same times and marches: whereby it appeareth (considering also Chap. 7.1, &c. and what was said there) they do most directly belong to the Church, and that in Spiritual trials.
2. It is not only contemporary with, but hath respect unto, the prophesie of the beasts' Chap. 13. and Chap. 11. vers. 7. as also the rise and close of that prophesie of the beasts' ⟨p. 417⟩will fall under the same times and marches: whereby it appeareth (considering also Chap. 7.1, &c. and what was said there) they do most directly belong to the Church, and that in Spirituall trials.
3. Consider, that the fifth trumpet looketh clearly to Antichrist and his discovery openly, as appeareth by comparing, vers. 4. Chap. 9. with vers. 8. Chap. 13. The same persons and by the same mark, are kept from the spiritual hurt of both; as also, that the sixth trumpet bringeth the Mahometans upon the back of that, the Turks being raised as a scourge for the Idolatry of the former, which are the first two great woes; and the first four are lesser in comparison of these. Now, this discovery of Antichrist, will be about the six hundred year, or a little after: the first four then must proceed that time, and continue the state of the Church from the three hundred or thereby (where the seal is closed) till that time.