A37035:1941
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.
This sin is especially eminent among their Clergy, and often in their Head the Pope himself: yea, one Pope Jean, or Joan according to others, is recorded to have brought forth a child in her Popedom. These things are not forged, but partly from experience have been found, and by their own Historiographers have been set down; partly, by some Godly men in these times, and others more civil have been often complained on and regretted; partly, are manifest from the Popes donations, and offices fr• quently bestowed upon their children, which continue to this day as avowed testimonies of their public accession to this sin. The last, is, their thefts, that is, the breach of the eighth Command, taking and wronging the estates of men, and by indirect means drawing them to themselves, without any warrantable right. This is especially applicable to the Romish Clergy, who by the pretext of dotations, mortifications, indulgences, annates, Peters patrimony and Peters-pence, and such like means, have engrossed to themselves the whole substance almost of Christendom. This sort of theft in the Pharisees, was long since condemned by our Lord as a breach of the Commandment of God, Matth. 15.5. and 23.14. with 25. Of all which sins, it is not only implied that the Antichristian world is guilty; but also that they, that is, the two parts not destroyed by the Turks, continue so to practise without repenting of the same.
This sin is especially eminent among their Clergie, and often in their Head the Pope himself: yea, one Pope Iean, or Ioan according to others, is recorded to have brought forth a child in her Popedom. These things are not forged, but partly from experience have been found, and by their own Historiographers have been set down; partly, by some Godly men in these times, and others more civil have been often complained on and regrated; partly, are manifest from the Popes donations, and offices fr• quently bestowed upon their children, which continue to this day as avowed testimonies of their publick accession to this sin. The last, is, their thefts, that is, the breach of the eighth Command, taking and wronging the estates of men, and by indirect means drawing them to themselves, without any warrantable right. This is especially applicable to the Romish Clergie, who by the pretext of dotations, mortifications, indulgences, annates, Peters patrimony and Peters-pence, and such like means, have ingrossed to themselves the whole substance almost of Christendom. This sort of theft in the Pharisees, was long since condemned by our Lord as a breach of the Commandment of God,