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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. It was a voice as of a trumpet, that is, 1. Not a confused or inarticulate sound, but a stately voice, having a kind of majesty with it. 2. Like a trumpet, giving a certain and distinct sound. And, 3. Like a trumpet, to stir up John to attention, to give him an alarm, to set him on his watch and guard to observe what he saw and heard. And it imports these four things, which might be so many grounds of Doctrine. 1. The majesty of the Person, who was speaking to John, that John may come to take Him up; it is to show that it was no common Person, but our Lord Jesus Christ, that is stately in His coming: and this is the first thing that folks should have, when they come to hear the Word, they should be affected with the majesty of Him who speaketh and consider it's His voice, who stakes the heaven and the earth, th•• makes the binds to calve, &c. Psal. 29. 2. It is to point out to John the great distance between him and the Person that speaketh to Him, and so to humble him, and to affect him with a humbling and kindly sense of his own infirmity. And these two go together, to wit, an impression of the stateliness and majesty of God, ⟨p. 33⟩who speaks; and an humble sense of infirmity in the creature. See it in Abraham, Gen. 18. 17. Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, Who am but dust and ashes. and vers. 25. Shall not the judge of all the earth do right? And they are also joined, Eccles. 5.1, 2. Keep thy foot when thou goest into the house of God: God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: let thy Words be few. 3. It is to put John to an holy attention to hear, and to be watchful in hearing what He was to say to him; the trumpet soundeth that he may be the better taken heed to when He speaks. And this is also a good property of hearers, when, as it is Acts 10.33. We can say with Cornelius, We are all here present before God, to hear Whatsoever things are commanded thee of God; to be in a humble, watchful posture having the heart laid open to whatsoever God will say; hanging on Him, as the phrase is,