A37035:1866
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
AN EXPOSITION Of the BOOK of the REVELATION. › Lecture 1 › Chapter 9
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.
The fifth Angel soundeth here, where the first of the greatest woes is brought in; of what dreadful nature it is, the woes that are prefaced to the sounding of it may declare. It will concern the opening of all, to consider of what woe this judgement speaketh particularly, and to what it relateth. It is more largely described than any of the former, because the tentation of it was most dangerous, and the effects thereof of more concernment to the Church.
THe fifth Angel soundeth here, where the first of the greatest woes is brought in; of what dreadfull nature it is, the woes that are prefaced to the sounding of it may declare. It will concern the opening of all, to consider of what wo this judgement speaketh particularly, and to what it relateth. It is more largely described than any of the former, because the tentation of it was most dangerous, and the effects thereof of more concernment to the Church.
1. The object of this judgement, is, the same Church, or Christian world, whereupon the effects of the former trumpets did fall: for, these last three do signify greater degrees of wrath upon these who had despised and abused the former lesser woes.
1. The object of this judgement, is, the same Church, or Christian world, whereupon the effects of the former trumpets did fall: for, these last three do signifie greater degrees of wrath upon these who had despised and abused the former lesser woes.
2. The Christian world is obscured by the trumpets, and the Antichristian brought in its place, as was said at the entry to the trumpets: for, the Antichristian world is in being after the sixth trumpet, when the vials begin; it must therefore have attained that being under the trumpets, and especially under the immediate foregoing trumpets; seeing the seventh findeth it at its height: and so consequently, the Christian world (i.e. the pure Church) must be decaying under these trumpets, where the Antichristian cometh to its being (seeing two of these worlds cannot consist together) yea, the Church must be lowest, and decline most under these trumpets, wherein Antichrist groweth most, and cometh to the greatest height, as under these first two great woes it must be. Whence we may gather, 1. That the Church is here the object of this plague. 2. That Antichrist must grow under these trumpets, and particularly under this, it being a further step of the same kind of plague, and the sixth finding Idolatry under Antichrist at a height, which it plagueth, it must then grow here. 3. This first great [Greek or Hebrew], bringeth spiritual plagues and tyranny upon this world, by this King and his Armies, who advance that Idolatry. The sixth bringeth temporal judgements on the same persons, for whoring from God, and receiving this idolatrous worship.