A37035:1827
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.
pride consumeth all and maketh it contemptible. So it is said of Babylon, Jer. 21.25. I will make thee a burnt mountain, when the dissolution of her authority is prophesied of.
3. The effects of this mountains casting in the sea, recorded here, are two, the one the effect of the other, 1. The waters are turned into blood, showing they were corrupted; that being the great evidence of corruption in them, alluding to the plague of Egypt, Exod. 7.19. which showeth, that by that foregoing rent, Discipline was weakened, Ordinances corrupted, and the nature of them altered; they were before useful, now they are hurtful, as being abused by this fiery mountains falling into them. So the Synods, Councils and Ministry in many places became such as were rather for destruction than edification, and Churches were rent and divided, and stumblings laid before poor people, whereby the second effect followed, that is, as in waters turned to blood, fishes cannot live, so by these errors in Doctrine and Worship (which both now continue together) poor souls are destroyed, simplicity of Worship corrupted with ceremonies and traditions, and all Church men, almost, who trade in these ships, are undone and destroyed with this ambition; for, blood signifieth any death, even spiritual death, Ezek. 3.18. His blood will I require of thee, &c. which is His spiritual killing of them; and here we are to understand their being killed with self-seeking and pride, and so to be dead while they were alive, 1 Tim. 5.6. and deadly to others also. In sum then, by the second trumpet we are to understand the corruption of the Government and Governors, who heightening their places beyond Christs order, and exercising that power, not for edification, but for destruction (contrary to its nature) in fiery contentions flowing from their pride and ambition, by which the eminency of the Church in that respect was dissolved in its Authority, and became low