A37035:1856
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.
There are but two things mentioned in this fourth trumpet. 1. The judgement or type, it is a smiting of the third part of the Sun, Moon, and Stars. 2. The effect of this judgement, is, a following darkness suitable to it, and the day shone not for a third part of it, an• the night likewise: because the Sun that giveth light by day, and the Moon and Stars that give light by night, they were all darkened and •mitten. There is no word of any particular cause, or mean, wher• by the Sun was smitten, as under the former trumpets was mentioned. By Sun, Moon, and Stars, we understand, and comprehend under them, light of all sorts, such as is the purity of Doctrine in the Word, compared to light, Psal. 119.105. And, 2 Pet. 1.19. the word of prophecy is called a light that shineth in a dark place: and so it may be, seeing Christ who is the Sun of Righteousness shineth therein, Mal. 4. And by the spreading of the Gospel, is said to arise, for the direction and comfort of His people, (See also, Matth. 4.16.) Or also, the light of order, comeliness, and a good conversation in the power of Godliness, as Phil. 2.15. and Matth. 5.17. So the Church (Cant. 6.) is called fair, as the Moon, and the Ministers compared to Stars, and the general beauty of the Church is prophesied of in these terms, Isa. 30.26. The light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun, and the light of the Sun as the light of seven days: and consequently, the diminishing and contracting of these lights, must be the declining and decaying of light in the Church, both in respect of purity of Doctrine, when it is darkened, and simplicity of Worship and Power in practice; these by humane traditions and ceremonies and superstitions, are quite dimmed, eclipsed and darkened. A third part is but smitten and darkened, and shineth not, which is in comparison of the total eclipse following under the fifth trumpet, when the Sun is wholly darkened, Chap. 9 vers. 1. This is higher and of larger extent than the former, yet less than these that follow in degree, but little odds in kind from the fifth. It differeth from the former as being of larger extent, affecting the Sun and light in a greater degree; also, in respect there is no particular instrument named;