A37035:1938
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.
What we said in preface to the trumpets, in general, and to this, doth also confirm it. They are said not to repent, that is, that these idolatrous Christians, notwithstanding of these plagues, neither were inwardly brought to loath these sins, or to be humbled for them before God; nor outwardly to abstain from them in their practice, but rather grew worse and dotted more upon these superstitions, even after this plague, which fully came to pass also, Papists being never more drunk with their superstitions, and profane in their carriages, than since the Turks destroyed a great part of that Antichristian Kingdom.
What we said in preface to the trumpets, in generall, and to this, doth also confirm it. They are said not to repent, that is, that these idolatrous Christians, notwithstanding of these plagues, neither were inwardly brought to loath these sins, or to be humbled for them before God; nor outwardly to abstain from them in their practice, but rather grew worse and dotted more upon these superstitions, even after this plague, which fully came to passe also, Papists being never more drunk with their superstitions, and profane in their carriages, than since the Turks destroyed a great part of that Antichristian Kingdom.
The first sin mentioned, is, Idolatry, four ways aggreged, 1. The works of their hands: so called, because the Images and statutes used in that worship, are made with mens hands, and so cannot be a fit object of worship. It is like hereby to relate to the second Command, where the making of all such, upon such an account, is forbidden. 2. It is called a worshipping of devils, not that it is so directly in the intention of the worshippers, but that it is so indeed, and accounted so by the Lord. Therefore it is usual in the Scripture to give it that name, Levit. 17.7. 1 Cor. 10.20. Yea, not only that sort of Idolatry, which is against the first Command, is so called; but even that which acknowledging the true God, doth yet corrupt the rule of Worship prescribed by Him, by putting an Idolatrous manner in the room thereof. So, that Idolatry of Jeroboam the son of Nebat is