A37035:1936
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.
We come now to the 20. and 21. verse. And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues, yet repented not, &c. The scope whereof, is, 1. To show what sins procured so great a plague, and so fierce an enemy to be let loose upon the Christian world; and indeed the consideration of these sins will vindicate the justice of God in inflicting all these evils. There is one sin mentioned in this verse, to wit, idolatry, several ways aggreged; and there are four moe in the last verse added: and though God will suffer cruel abominations in Pagans, that never had the knowledge of His will; yet these who are guilty here, being by profession of His Church, there is the greater access in justice to take course with them. 2. It is set down to show the end which the Lord drove by such strong Physic; it was at the health, and not the subversion of that part of the world; and so by the application of this mean, either to bring them to repentance, as the right fruit of all, or to discover their desperate impenitency. 3. It showeth the fruitlessness of this mean, that notwithstanding it was sharp, yet did it not prevail with them; which is not to be understood, as if God failed of His intended purpose, but to show how mad the Antichristian world was upon their Idols, when such a judgement, having destroyed so many, did not yet effectuate the recovery of the rest.
We come now to the 20. and 21. verse. And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues, yet repented not, &c. The scope whereof, is, 1. To shew what sins procured so great a plague, and so fierce an enemy to be letten loose upon the Christian world; and indeed the consideration of these sins will vindicate the justice of God in inflicting all these evils. There is one sin mentioned in this verse, to wit, idolatry, several wayes aggreged; and there are four moe in the last verse added: and though God will suffer cruel abominations in Pagans, that never had the knowledge of His will; yet these who are guilty here, being by profession of His Church, there is the greater accesse in justice to take course with them. 2. It is set down to shew the end which the Lord drove by such strong Physick; it was at the health, and not the subversion of that part of the world; and so by the application of this mean, either to bring them to repentance, as the right fruit of all, or to discover their desperate impenitency. 3. It sheweth the fruitlesnesse of this mean, that notwithstanding it was sharpe, yet did it not prevail with them; which is not to be understood, as if God failed of His intended purpose, but to shew how mad the Antichristian world was upon their Idols, when such a judgement, having destroyed so many, did not yet effectuate the recovery of the rest.