A37035:1973
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.
because they esteem Idolatry to consist in this, the giving of Divine worship to the creature after that same manner, and upon the same account that is given to God. And therefore, although they give the same Divine worship to the Image which they give to God in it self, yet seeing they give it not upon that account, as if the image were God, and for it self, but relatively, Therefore can it not be Idolatry, because they never conjoin these two together, (as Gregor. de Valent. ibid. ut supra, expresseth it, ut & cultum divinum usurpent, & illum qua ratione Deo exhiberi debeat, tribuant creatura, hoc est, ipsis imaginibus secundum se (and, as a little after, sicut Deo) and therefore, illi ejusmodi adoration nunquam committunt idolatriam.
because they esteem Idolatry to consist in this, the giving of Divine worship to the creature after that same manner, and upon the same account that is given to God. And therefore, although they give the same Divine worship to the Image which they give to God in it self, yet seing they give it not upon that account, as if the image were God, and for it self, but relatively, Therefore can it not be Idolatry, because they never conjoyn these two together, (as Gregor. de Valent. ibid. ut supra, expresseth it, ut & cultum divinum usurpent, & illum qua ratione Deo exhiberi debeat, tribuant creatura, hoc est, ipsis imaginibus secundum se (and, as a little after, sicut Deo) and therefore, illi ejusmodi adoratione nunquam committunt idolatriam.
It is generally granted further by the forecited Authors, that the making of Images to God, was simply prohibited under the Old Testament, and that there is nothing under the New Testament to establish this worship, but that it is grounded upon tradition, and the Churches determination confirmed by a famous tradition of the Lords sending His own portraiture to Abagarus; and of Luke's painting the Lord and His Mother, which are amongst their unanswerable arguments for establishing this worship. Therefore when that horned argument is propounded, Either Images are warranted by the Word or not; If they be warranted by the Word, that warrant is to be produced: if not, then are they not to be valued. Eccius, answering to this in his Enchiridion, doth no way offer to instruct their warrant from the Word, but asserteth many things in practice to be warranted by tradition, such as is for this. If then we make out this, that such worshipping of Images, notwithstanding of such exceptions, be condemned in Scripture, as Idolatry, we have what