A37035:1982
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 (saith he) cometh and someway is extorted by that visible Image, as thinking that readiest to hear which it in shape likest to our selves, &c. where many other things are further to this purpose. Also, in Psal. 96. (nobis, 97.) where he bringeth in the Heathen giving this answer, Non illud colo seu adora quod video, sed servio ei quem non video, quis est iste? Numen quoddam invisibile quod praesides illi simulachro: where they distinguish betwixt adoro and servio, as Papists do between [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew]. If it were objected further to these heathens, that they worshipped devils, they would answer. They worshipped good Angels and virtutes Dei. It is replied in the same place, If they worshipped good Angels, they would reject their worship, as that Angel did to John, Rev. 19, &c. This way of shifting also may be found in Lactantius, de origine erroris, Lib. 2. Cap. 2. apud. Chrylost. in Eph. 5. hom. 18. From all which we may gather, that the heathens wanted not the same shifts for excusing their worshipping of Images, yet was it still charged upon them, that they worshipped Idols which neither saw nor heard, &c. although still they denied it.
This (saith he) cometh and someway is extorted by that visible Image, as thinking that readiest to hear which it in shape likest to our selves, &c. where many other things are further to this purpose. Also, in Psal. 96. (nobis, 97.) where he bringeth in the Heathen giving this answer, Non illud colo seu adora quod video, sed servio ei quem non video, quis est iste? Numen quoddam invisibile quod praesides illi simulachro: where they distinguish betwixt adoro and servio, as Papists do between 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. If it were objected further to these heathens, that they worshipped devils, they would answer. They worshipped good Angels and virtutes Dei. It is replied in the same place, If they worshipped good Angels, they would reject their worship, as that Angel did to Iohn,