A37035:1845
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.
3. The name of the Star, is, Wormwood, given him from the effect which it produceth, it having influence to corrupt the sweetest things and to make them partake of its nature. Deut. 29.18. It is spoken of a man that hath a root that beareth gall or wormwood, one that walked not straightly by Gods rule: and Act. 8.23. Simon Magus lo said to be in the gall of bitterness for his corrupt thoughts of the grace of God; and it may well get this name, which hath so much influence upon fountains and rivers, that it may make them bitter like wormwood, that is, altereth their swer• nature, bringing-in free will, the de•ection of the Saints, the inefficacy of Grace, the Doctrine of merit and predestination upon foreseen works, or Faith, &c. whereby the nature of the Gospel is quite overturned, and that Doctrine which was healthful to be drunken in, is now like the Prophets pottage, having death in the pot, that none who would be unpoisoned dare drink of it, more than the Egyptians might drink of their rivers when they were turned into blood.
3. The name of the Star, is, Wormwood, given him from the effect which it produceth, it having influence to corrupt the sweetest things and to make them partake of its nature. Deut. 29.18. It is spoken of a man that hath a root that beareth gall or wormwood, one that walked not straightly by Gods rule: and Act. 8.23. Simon Magus lo said to be in the gall of bitternesse for his corrupt thoughts of the grace of God; and it may well get this name, which hath so much influence upon fountains and rivers, that it may make them bitter like wormwood, that is, altereth their swer• nature, bringing-in free will, the de•ection of the Saints, the inefficacy of Grace, the Doctrine of merit and predestination upon foreseen works, or Faith, &c. whereby the nature of the Gospel is quite overturned, and that Doctrine which was healthfull to be drunken in, is now like the Prophets pottage, having death in the pot, that none who would be unpoisoned dare drink of it, more than the Egyptians might drink of their rivers when they were turned into bloud.