A37035:1891
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 last thing wherein their power or commission is described, is, in the nature of the plague it self, that is, it was not that they should kill men, but that men should be tormented, &c. This torment in the greatness of it, is aggreged by a similitude in the end of the fifth Verse, their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, which is a grievous, dangerous, and vexing torment.
The last thing wherein their power or commission is described, is, in the nature of the plague it self, that is, it was not that they should kill men, but that men should be tormented, &c. This torment in the greatnesse of it, is aggreged by a similitude in the end of the fifth Verse, their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, which is a grievous, dangerous, and vexing torment.
Vers. 6. The second aggravation, is, v. 6. from the effect of this, Men shall seek death, and shall not find it, and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. In sum it is this, their anxiety shall be so great, as shall make them weary of their life (as we see often good men wish for death under great anxiety of spirit, not as death is considered in it self, but as usually it is accounted an end to present vexations, as Job and Jonah) and yet death shall not prove comfortable to them; but death (that is, a quieting death which they desire) shall flee from them, and thoughts of death shall breed a new terror to them. For understanding this, two things are to be observed, 1. That it is not bodily torment which the Text speaketh of, but Spiritual anxiety and inward vexation of spirit, and that such as natively floweth from the practices and doctrine of these locusts: For, 1. this torment is on the friends and native subjects of this Kingdom, whom these under-officers do not pretend willingly to torment. 2. Their power is not to kill bodily, and therefore not to torment bodily.
Vers. 6. The second aggravation, is, v. 6. from the effect of this, Men shall seek death, and shall not find it, and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. In sum it is this, their anxiety shall be so great, as shall make them weary of their life (as we see often good men wish for death under great anxiety of spirit, not as death is considered in it self, but as usually it is accounted an end to present vexations, as Iob and Ionah) and yet death shall not prove comfortable to them; but death (that is, a quieting death which they desire) shall flee from them, and thoughts of death shall breed a new terrour to them. For understanding this, two things are to be observed, 1. That it is not bodily torment which the Text speaketh of, but Spirituall anxiety and inward vexation of spirit, and that such as natively floweth from the practices and doctrine of these locusts: For, 1. this torment is on the friends and native subjects of this Kingdom, whom these under-officers do not pretend willingly to torment. 2. Their power is not to kill bodily, and therefore not to torment bodily.