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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.
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Assert. 2. Yet is it not altogether to be denied, but that the Lord may in particulars of the last kind sometimes reveal himself to some by foretelling events before they come, such as the famine that Agabus foretold of, or Pauls imprisonment, were: of such the story of the Martyrs and Saints do sometime make mention; and particularly, Athanasius is often advertised of hazards, as is recorded, and in their verity cannot be denied: and of this sort there were many at the reviving of the light of the Gospel, who by foretelling of particular events were famous, as John Huss his foretelling within an hundred years after him to follow the outbreaking of Reformation; such, it is like, was Hieronymus Savonarola, who was burnt by the Pope, not, as was pretended, for foretelling of events, as they imputed to him, by unlawful means, but for faithful reproving of his faults, as he is described by Philip de Cumius and other Authors: of such many were in this Land, as Master Wishart, Master Knox, Master Welsh, Master Davidson, &c. And this cannot be said altogether to be made void: for, although God hath now closed the Canon of the ⟨p. 471⟩Scripture, yet that He should be restrained in His freedom, from manifesting of Himself thus, there is no convincing ground to bear it out, especially when experience hath often proven the contrary in the most holy men. Yet, 1. this is not habitual or ordinary to any, but is singular at some few times and in some few cases. 2. Every persuasion of mind before the event come, and answerableness in it when it cometh, will not be sufficient to make it pass for a prophetical foreknowledge, more than when in dreams it may often so fall out. 3. This will not denominate one to be a Prophet, although in some singular events, God maketh this use of him. Nor, 4. can such predictions warrant any to do a thing as a duty, which otherwise would not be warrantable unto them. 5. There is difference to be put betwixt the simple foretelling of an event, which may be of God, and a conclusion which may be drawn therefrom; this may be of our selves, as we may see in the predictions of these (Act. 21.) who foretold Pauls Imprisonment at Jerusalem, yet was not that to divert him from his going there, as many collected; that therefore was not from God, as Pauls pressure in the spirit to go notwithstanding, doth clear;
Assert. 2. Yet is it not altogether to be denied, but that the Lord may in particulars of the last kind sometimes reveal himself to some by foretelling events before they come, such as the famine that Agabus foretold of, or Pauls imprisonment, were: of such the story of the Martyrs and Saints do sometime make mention; and particularly, Athanasius is often advertised of hazards, as is recorded, and in their verity cannot be denied: and of this sort there were many at the reviving of the light of the Gospel, who by foretelling of particular events were famous, as Iohn Husse his foretelling within an hundreth years after him to follow the outbreaking of Reformation; such, it is like, was Hieronymus Savonarola, who was burnt by the Pope, not, as was pretended, for foretelling of events, as they imputed to him, by unlawfull means, but for faithfull reproving of his faults, as he is described by Philip de Cumius and other Authors: of such many were in this Land, as Master Wishart, Master Knox, Master Welch, Master Davidson, &c. And this cannot be said altogether to be made void: for, although God hath now closed the Canon of the