A37035:1876
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
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2. It appeareth also, that by the fifth and sixth trumpets we are to understand different evils and enemies; and so they cannot both be applicable either to Antichrist only, or Mahometans only.
2. It appeareth also, that by the fifth and sixth trumpets we are to understand different evils and enemies; and so they cannot both be applicable either to Antichrist only, or Mahumetans only.
3. We may gather also, that this Kingdom and Army, with the furniture wherewith they are provided, and the effects which follow upon their tyranny, are not properly to be understood of external battles and bodily evils, but figuratively, as representing some great spiritual hurt on the Church and her Ordinances. These expressions, they are like horses, and had breast-plates, as it were breast-plates, &c. whereby they are expressly differenced from the trumpet following, wherein expressions that are properly to be understood, are used, and do intimate this.
3. We may gather also, that this Kingdom and Army, with the furniture wherewith they are provided, and the effects which follow upon their tyranny, are not properly to be understood of externall battels and bodily evils, but figuratively, as representing some great spirituall hurt on the Church and her Ordinances. These expressions, they are like horses, and had breast-plates, as it were breast-plates, &c. whereby they are expresly differenced from the trumpet following, wherein expressions that are properly to be understood, are used, and do intimate this.
4. Supposing (which afterward from Chap. 11.13. and 17. will be more clear) that the Roman Hierarchy, complexly taken, is the Kingdom of Antichrist; and that the deluding of the world by them, is the very delusion prophesied of,