A37035:1919
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.
IN the last trumpet were described the nature and success of the kingdom of Antichrist, who was there called, the Angel of the bottomless pit, in opposition to Jesus Christ, who is called the Angel of the Covenant. The visible Church was pestered with corruptions, superstitions and idolatry by him, for which the Lord threateneth to plague them with a more sensible plague by this sixth trumpet.
IN the last trumpet were described the nature and successe of the kingdom of Antichrist, who was there called, the Angel of the bottomlesse pit, in opposition to Jesus Christ, who is called the Angel of the Covenant. The visible Church was pestered with corruptions, superstitions and idolatry by him, for which the Lord threatneth to plague them with a more sensible plague by this sixth trumpet.
The 12. Verse, One woe is past, &c. is set down to rid marches betwixt the two trumpets, and to make the transition clear from the one to the other. It is not to be understood, as if the event of the fifth trumpet were fully to proceed the sixth, and no ways to contemporate with it (the contrary of this is clear from the close of this Chapter, where the idolatry, brought into the world by the fifth trumpet, continueth unrepented-of during the sixth; but this is to be understood, either as holding forth the priority of their beginning, the fifth precedeth the sixth, as being the procuring cause of it; or, it relateth only to the former description, and signifieth this much, the description of the first woe is past, and now cometh the typical description of the second. Therefore what we prefaced in general, concerning the order both of seals and trumpets, is to be applied here.
The 12. Verse, One wo is past, &c. is set down to rid marches betwixt the two trumpets, and to make the transition clear from the one to the other. It is not to be understood, as if the event of the fifth trumpet were fully to preceed the sixth, and no wayes to contemporate with it (the contrary of this is clear from the close of this Chapter, where the idolatry, brought into the world by the fifth trumpet, continueth unrepented-of during the sixth; but this is to be understood, either as holding forth the priority of their beginning, the fifth preceedeth the sixth, as being the procuring cause of it; or, it relateth only to the former description, and signifieth this much, the description of the first wo is past, and now cometh the typicall description of the second. Therefore what we prefaced in general, concerning the order both of seals and trumpets, is to be applied here.