A37035:1942
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.
The charging of the Popes with these foul faults, will not seem strange, if we consider ⟨p. 452⟩what Platina, Martinus Onuphrius their own writers, and Bellarmin, himself writeth concerning them from the 670. forward: where abounded, 1. Irregularity in elections by bribes, magic arts, ambition, faction and violence, by poisoning and incarcerating their predecessors: so that Platina, in vita Stephani 6. saith, •ò deventum erat Ecclesiasticis, ut largitionibus sedem obtinerent; The Church-men came to this condition that they got the Papacy by bribes. And Damas. 2. vi sedem occupavit, inoleverat enim hic mos, ut cui seditioso liceret Petri sedem invadore; he took the Papacy by force, for this was the custom, that any seditious person might by violence take up Peter's seat. And, in the life of Sylvester the third, Eò enim Pontificatus devenerat, ut qui plus largitione & ambitione, non dico sanctitate vitae & doctrinae, valeret, is tantummodò bonis oppressis & rejectis obtineret: quem morem utinam aliquando non retinuissent nostra tempora; sed hos parum est, &c. The Papacy was come into this condition, that not he who was holiest and most learned, but he who gave maniest bribes and was most ambitious, obtained it, and that only by bearing down and casting at good men: which custom I wish our times had not retained; but this is little of it, &c. 2. There is grossness in their persons for adultery, cruelty, devilry. John the 13. omnibus probris ac turpitudinibus à pueritiá contaminatus, venationibus, siquid temporis à libidinibus supererat, magis quam orationibus deditus. Hic sceleratissimus in adulterio comprehensus confossus fuit; An infamous and vile man even from his infancy, what spare time he had from his lusts, was spent rather in Hunting than Prayer, at length he was stabbed in the very act of Adultery. Sylvester 2. malis artibus sedem adeptus, Diabolum socutus, cui see totum tradidorat, eâ lege Diaboli opem obtinuit, ut post mortem ejus totus esset; Sylvester 2. having got the Papacy by unlawful ways, gave over himself to the devil, and got his help upon that condition that he should be his wholly after death. 3. Great cruelty in their poisoning, exhumating and beheading after death their predecessors, rescinding all their acts, So that in Steph. 5. Haec consuetudo invaluit, &c. See more in Chrystoph. 1. Boniface 7. Hildebrand and many others. 4.
The charging of the Popes with these foul faults, will not seem strange, if we consider