A37035:2022
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
AN EXPOSITION Of the BOOK of the REVELATION. › LECTURE › Chapter 10 › Concerning Prophesying.
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.
We may consider Prophecy or Prophets in a threefold consideration, 1. In respect of the matter that is brought forth: which is either, 1. some general truth not formerly revealed in the Word. Or, 2. some particular contrary to what is formerly revealed there either in Doctrine or practice. Of this kind might be the Israelites their borrowing of Jewels, ⟨p. 470⟩Abraham his taking his son to sacrifice him, and many such practices which cannot be condemned, yet do not agree with the precepts that are in the Word for directing of the people of God in their ordinary carriage. Or, 3. it is some particular neither formerly revealed, nor yet in it self contrary to the Word, but that which concerneth some particular event or personal duty allanerly.
We may consider Prophesie or Prophets in a threefold consideration, 1. In respect of the matter that is brought forth: which is either, 1. some generall truth not formerly revealed in the Word. Or, 2. some particular contrary to what is formerly revealed there either in Doctrine or practice. Of this kind might be the Israelites their borrowing of Jewels, ⟨p. 470⟩Abraham his taking his son to sacrifice him, and many such practices which cannot be condemned, yet do not agree with the precepts that are in the Word for directing of the people of God in their ordinary carriage. Or, 3. it is some particular neither formerly revealed, nor yet in it self contrary to the Word, but that which concerneth some particular event or personall duty allanerly.
2. We may consider it again as it holdeth forth an ordinary or extraordinary way how these things, or any thing else, come to be known although the matter be a truth formerly revealed in the Word, such as the matter revealed to these Prophets, 1 Corinth. 14. which was to be tried by the Word.