A37035:1802
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.
2. The object of this judgement, is, the earth, And 3. the effects, are, the burning up a third part of trees and all green grass.
2. The object of this judgement, is, the earth, And 3. the effects, are, the burning up a third part of trees and all green grasse.
1. By earth, we understand, 1. either indefinitely the visible Church, which is set upon and defaced in its most clear and plain truths, Chap. 7.1. Or, 2. more especially, the foundations of it, such truths as are most solidly to be believed, without which the visible Church cannot stand, as that, concerning the Person, Natures and Offices of the Son of God, as the earth in the Pagan world, Chap. 6. and in the Antichristian world, Chap. 16. may and doth signify their foundations, and what seemed most strong in them, and essential to them, when their foundations were shaken they must fall; so here the right confession of Christ and pure Doctrine of Faith in Him, is called the foundation or rock on which the Church is builded, Mat. 16. Or, Thirdly, it may show the spreading of this plague, or sore, over the very face of the Church in respect of its extent, there being no part of the earth free of it.
1. By earth, we understand, 1. either indefinitely the visible Church, which is set upon and defaced in its most clear and plain truths, Chap. 7.1. Or, 2. more especially, the foundations of it, such truths as are most solidly to be believed, without which the visible Church cannot stand, as that, concerning the Person, Natures and Offices of the Son of God, as the earth in the Pagan world, Chap. 6. and in the Antichristian world, Chap. 16. may and doth signifie their foundations, and what seemed most strong in them, and essentiall to them, when their foundations were shaken they must fall; so here the right confession of Christ and pure Doctrine of Faith in Him, is called the foundation or rock on which the Church is builded,