A37035:1790
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.
6. It is observable, That as in all the other changes of periods, so in this, the overturning of the visible Church is compared to the overturning of the world, and plaguing the Earth, Sea, Rivers, Sun, Moon, &c. There are three worlds mentioned, which successively are defaced by the three principal prophesies of this Book, 1. The heathen world, it is overturned together, Chap. 6. and under the sixth seal. 2. To it succeedeth the Christian world, when Religion hath liberty and the countenance of the Roman Authority; this is defaced successively under the trumpets, by that worlds declining to be Antichristian, and by his getting Authority and Power on his side, and bringing the Church witnesses and Saints low. This Popish, or Antichristian world, is destroyed under the vials, in the the same expressions of Sea, Earth, &c. All which states of the Church in the Empire, are compared to different worlds, and their overturning or defacing to the changing of the world, while it is only the Church or Religion in the world which suffereth change.
6. It is observable, That as in all the other changes of periods, so in this, the overturning of the visible Church is compared to the overturning of the world, and plaguing the Earth, Sea, Rivers, Sun, Moon, &c. There are three worlds mentioned, which successively are defaced by the three principall prophesies of this Book, 1. The heathen world, it is overturned together, Chap. 6. and under the sixth seal. 2. To it succeedeth the Christian world, when Religion hath liberty and the countenance of the Romane Authority; this is defaced successively under the trumpets, by that worlds declining to be Antichristian, and by his getting Authority and Power on his side, and bringing the Church witnesses and Saints low. This Popish, or Antichristian world, is destroyed under the vials, in the the same expressions of Sea, Earth, &c. All which states of the Church in the Empire, are compared to different worlds, and their overturning or defacing to the changing of the world, while it is only the Church or Religion in the world which suffereth change.
7. If we will look to the trumpets, as the effects follow them, and to the vials and their effects; There is a great suitableness between them in all. The first trumpet is on the Earth, and so is the first vial poured out on it; the second on the Sea; the third on the Rivers, in both; so the fourth on the Sun. The fifth trumpet bringeth out Antichrist as on his throne, the fifth vial is poured out on the seat or throne of the beast; the sixth trumpet louseth the four Angels at Euphrates, the vial drieth up that River: whereby it appeareth, that God destroyeth Antichrist in that same method he grew, and cleareth His Church, as she was in several steps darkened, obscured and troubled; that as Antichrist brought in a new counterfeit Church or World by degrees, overturning what was before, So shall he be destroyed. And therefore, as the destruction of Antichrist and his world, is clearly intended by the vials; so this world, which is overturned here, must be understood of the visible Church, on whose ruins that Antichristian world was erected, seeing the rise of Antichrist inferreth the defacing of the Church, and that by the same steps and in the same method, as his ruin followeth by the vials. Neither can there be any other reason given of the accurate resemblance which is between the trumpets and vials, which yet cannot be thought to be without reason; neither can there be an overturning of the Antichristian world, till it be built; nor can it be thought to be builded, but under the trumpets, to wit, after the Heathenish world is past and the Christian built; yea, after the Christian world beginneth to decay: all which fall under the trumpets; for, two of those worlds cannot stand together, yet still one of them followeth upon the back of the other, so as the overturning of the Heathenish world, supposeth Christianity to succeed; and as the destroying of the Antichristian world by the vials, supposeth purity to succeed, So here