A37035:1793
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.
From which considerations, we suppose it is clear, 1. That these trumpets denote the state of the Church with some order of time. There is certainly order in the three last trumpets, in respect of themselves, and in respect of these which proceed; and therefore it is not for the clearing of them, to expound them of kinds of heresies in a confusion, as agreeing to any time. 2. That they do not principally intend temporal changes on the Roman Empire, as the object of these mutations, or as vindictive on them for their former persecutions, (though these spiritual ills be set out in expressions suiting temporal judgements, even as the Churches disputes with Heretics, are set out by fightings, and such like) for, the Saints and witnesses especially, suffer temporally here, when all the world otherwise rejoiceth, Chap. 11. It remaineth then, that the object is the Church-visible; the nature of them is Spiritual principally (as is said before) with temporal exercises on the Church and judgements on the Empire.
From which considerations, we suppose it is clear, 1. That these trumpets denote the state of the Church with some order of time. There is certainly order in the three last trumpets, in respect of themselves, and in respect of these which preceed; and therefore it is not for the clearing of them, to expound them of kinds of heresies in a confusion, as agreeing to any time. 2. That they do not principally intend temporall changes on the Roman Empire, as the object of these mutations, or as vindictive on them for their former persecutions, (though these spirituall ills be set out in expressions suiting temporall judgements, even as the Churches disputes with Hereticks, are set out by fightings, and such like) for, the Saints and witnesses especially, suffer temporally here, when all the world otherwise rejoyceth, Chap. 11. It remaineth then, that the object is the Church-visible; the nature of them is Spirituall principally (as is said before) with temporall exercises on the Church and judgements on the Empire.
The order and sum of the trumpets then we conceive to be this. The four first trumpets (which comparatively with the other three following, are the lesser woes) hold forth the Churches declining and weakening from under Constantine (as was touched before) about the three hundred and twenty year or thereabouts when Antichrist had his working under ground, till his discovery, which is in the fifth trumpet, about the year six hundred and some odds, holden out in these steps, 1. What was set upon in all these beasts, and in what order? 2. By what means? 3. With what success and fruit?