A37035:1946
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
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3. It appeareth, that the Idolatry and sins mentioned here, and the man who continue impenitently in them, are not to be understood of the idolatry and sins which the Pagan world is guilty of (whom God by this judgement aimeth not to reclaim!) but such sins as the backslidden Church of Antichrist is guilty of, that being the world, a third part whereof is destroyed, and two parts whereof, for a time, are spared, as is said, it being not the rest of men simply, but the rest of the men, which relate to the visible Church (the object of these plagues) as contradistinguished from the rest of the world. Beside, the idolatries, murders, &c. mentioned here, and the men who continue impenitent in them, are the same who are plagued by the last woe and last plagues or vials of the wrath of God; for, it is one continued controversy upon the same account, but the men plagued for Idolatry, murder, fornication, &c. by the vials, are the men who have the mark of the beast, Chap. 16.2. charged with the blood of Saints, ibid. vers. 6. Yea, the seat of the beast (untouched by this plague) ibid. vers. 10. found guilty also of Idolatry, sorcery and fornication, Chap. 13.1, 2, 4, 5. and Chap. 17.4, 5, 6, &c. Therefore they must be of one and the same Antichristian Church. For, seeing such men under such guilt, are found tenacious of the same impiety under the vials, although plagued by them, Whom can we esteem them to be but the men spoken of here under the same guilt, who being spared, and yet continuing therein, are of new brought unto a reckoning by the Lord? neither were it so wonderful to see Heathens continue in their idolatries after crosses, but it is ⟨p. 453⟩wonderful to see Christians do so; more might have been expected from them.
3. It appeareth, that the Idolatry and sins mentioned here, and the man who continue impenitently in them, are not to be understood of the idolatry and sins which the Pagan world is guilty of (whom God by this judgement aimeth not to reclaim!) but such sins as the backslidden Church of Antichrist is guilty of, that being the world, a third part whereof is destroyed, and two parts whereof, for a time, are spared, as is said, it being not the rest of men simply, but the rest of the men, which relate to the visible Church (the object of these plagues) as contradistinguished from the rest of the world. Beside, the idolatries, murthers, &c. mentioned here, and the men who continue impenitent in them, are the same who are plagued by the last wo and last plagues or vials of the wrath of God; for, it is one continued controversie upon the same account, but the men plagued for Idolatry, murther, fornication, &c. by the vials, are the men who have the mark of the beast, Chap. 16.2. charged with the bloud of Saints, ibid. vers. 6. Yea, the seat of the beast (untouched by this plague) ibid. vers. 10. found guilty also of Idolatry, sorcery and fornication, Chap. 13.1, 2, 4, 5. and Chap. 17.4, 5, 6, &c. Therefore they must be of one and the same Antichristian Church. For, seing such men under such guilt, are found tenacious of the same impiety under the vials, although plagued by them, Whom can we esteem them to be but the men spoken of here under the same guilt, who being spared, and yet continuing therein, are of new brought unto a reckoning by the Lord? neither were it so wonderfull to see Heathens continue in their idolatries after crosses, but it is