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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 1 › Chapter 11
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The Lord hath discovered the first part of the consolation against the two first woes, to wit, a comfortable outgate which the Church should have from under them, and a reviving again of the Gospel after that: a type and confirmation whereof, was John's eating of the little book; but seeing this is suspended until the sounding of the seventh trumpet, and it might be a doubt, what became of the Church till then, or if there were any during the time of Antichrists prevailing, In this Chapter to Verse 15. the estate of the Church in reference to that time, is particularly described: wherein is shown, that even then there should be a Church provided for by God, and that there should be Prophets and Preachers of the Gospel, although both Pastors and People should be few and in a low estate outwardly.
THe Lord hath discovered the first part of the consolation against the two first woes, to wit, a comfortable outgate which the Church should have from under them, and a reviving again of the Gospel after that: a type and confirmation whereof, was Iohn's eating of the little book; but seing this is suspended untill the sounding of the seventh trumpet, and it might be a doubt, what became of the Church till then, or if there were any during the time of Antichrists prevailing, In this Chapter to Verse 15. the estate of the Church in reference to that time, is particularly described: wherein is shown, that even then there should be a Church provided for by God, and that there should be Prophets and Preachers of the Gospel, although both Pastors and People should be few and in a low estate outwardly.
That this doth relate unto the condition of the Church under Antichrist, and belongeth to that time as contemporary with the fifth and sixth trumpets, will appear. 1. This belongeth to the state of the Church immediately preceding the last woe, or seventh trumpet, by which Antichrists fall beginneth; and it doth describe the estate of the Church for the forty two months immediately before his fall: and therefore must necessarily contemporate with his dominion and height, which doth immediately also for the same space of time proceed the seventh trumpet. 2. This part of the Prophecy holdeth forth that trial of the Church, when her Prophets prophesy in sackcloth, and have war with the beast: which trial endeth with the beasts prevailing over them, and their rising again and being taken up to heaven; but that trial, in the continuance of it, a thousand two hundred and threescore days, is the same with the beasts dominion, Chap. 13. and closeth with his begun fall: and therefore must belong to the same time. 3. These times of forty two months, one thousand two hundred threescore days, time, times, and half a time, &c. five times mentioned, Chap. 11, 12. and 13. being all of equal extent, must be understood to be contemporary one with another; for, that successively they should follow one another, cannot be thought, beside the agreeableness of the same matter and state of the Church under all of them, and the common beginning and rise which all of them have: but it is certain, that forty two months (Chap. 11.) relate to the Antichristian tyranny: therefore we must understand this giving of the outer Court to the Gentiles, and this prophesying for the like time, vers. 2. and 3. of the same also. 4. The measuring of the Temple and treading of the outer Court, do contemporate and belong to the same time; for, when the Temple is to be measured, the outer Court is cast out, & contra, the outer Court is left out, when the Temple is measured: and therefore seeing the leaving out of the outer Court belongeth to the time of Antichrist, That part of the measuring of the Temple must contemporate with it also: for, the describing of the Church, by comparing it to the Temple and to the outer Court, is not to distinguish the visible Church in respect of time successively;