A37035:1979
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 weight then of this Argument will •y in the Assumption, to wit, that even these Heathens who are charged with worshipping Images in Scripture the work of their hands, did yet solemnly disclaim their accounting these Images to be gods, but that they worshipped them for the honour of the God whom they represented. This appeareth, 1. by considering these places of Scripture, Rom. 1.21. Acts 17. where the Apostles dispute runneth to condemn that opinion, That the unknown God ignorantly worshipped by them, could be worshipped by mens hands, vers. 28. that is to say, by making of Images, or ⟨p. 459⟩could be represented by silver or gold, or any other thing, vers. 29. And although their thoughts of God might be more gross, yet this is ever true, that they accounted not their images to be the God whom they worshipped, and so did not worship them for themselves (or, secundum se) but relatively with respect to others also. Act. 19.35. express difference is put betwixt Diana and her Images, and the silver shrines that were made to her, and Jupiter is asserted to be in heaven, and therefore was distinctly considered by them from the Images they made unto him.
The weight then of this Argument will •y in the Assumption, to wit, that even these Heathens who are charged with worshipping Images in Scripture the work of their hands, did yet solemnly disclaim their accounting these Images to be gods, but that they worshipped them for the honour of the God whom they represented. This appeareth, 1. by considering these places of Scripture, Rom. 1.21. Acts 17. where the Apostles dispute runneth to condemn that opinion, That the unknow God ignorantly worshipped by them, could be worshipped by mens hands, vers. 28. that is to say, by making of Images, or ⟨p. 459⟩