A37035:1798
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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4. In the fourth trumpet, the light is further obscured, and the beauty of pure Doctrine in the Church darkened, the Scripture is veiled and kept up, ignorance fostered, tradition is brought in place of Scripture, will-worship and ceremonies for the practice of holy duties, &c. whereby the glorious light of the Gospel and of the Church was darkened and grew dim, making way for Antichrists rising, though it increased much more under him, yet even then men were more taken up with Monkishness and these toys, than with things which were more profitable, out of which darkness Antichrist at last start up, and took it on him, in the fifth trumpet: whereupon followeth Mahomet in the sixth, as his and the worlds scourge, until the vials make a turn, and this height of Antichrist be brought down even as he rose; which series of the vials, begineth with the seventh trumpet.
4. In the fourth trumpet, the light is further obscured, and the beauty of pure Doctrine in the Church darkened, the Scripture is vailed and keeped up, ignorance fostered, tradition is brought in place of Scripture, will-worship and ceremonies for the practice of holy duties, &c. whereby the glorious light of the Gospel and of the Church was darkened and grew dim, making way for Antichrists rising, though it encreased much more under him, yet even then men were more taken up with Monkishnesse and these toyes, than with things which were more profitable, out of which darknesse Antichrist at last start up, and took it on him, in the fifth trumpet: whereupon followeth Mahomet in the sixth, as his and the worlds scourge, untill the vials make a turn, and this height of Antichrist be brought down even as he rose; which series of the vials, begineth with the seventh trumpet.
This series agreeth well with the types and also with the truth of the event in the matter of fact, as afterward succeeded, and so the Church is wasted, blasted, and way made for Antichrist by th•se first four; and therefore there can be no unwarrantablenesse in speaking thus of them. It agreeth also well with the scope, in showing Antichrists rise by these steps: Only, take that advertisement which we gave on the seals, That though there be an order in the rise of these things one after another, yet neither would we be peremptory in timing it, or ascribing it to particular events, nor yet think, that one endeth, or goeth away, when the other cometh; nay, they continue together, and do complete the Churches darkening, as it was with the dispensations under the seals; the first continued till the last, but had order in its rising, so here. And though something of the latter trumpets might be working, even as soon as the former, and no doubt the fifth began to work soon, yet the trumpet looketh at such a thing in a height or its discovery, and so the second was working under the first, but did not break out till the first was some length proceeded.