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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
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 state of the Church then is two ways set down, First, More generally in respect of the condition of the Church her self, vers. 1, 2. Secondly, More particularly in respect of her Prophets, unto vers. 14. That by putting these two together, it may be seen what posture she was to be in. Both these descriptions are set down with allusion to phrases in the Old Testament. The state of the Church in respect of her self, during that time, is again two ways set out, 1. With reference to the true worshippers, vers. 1. 2. With reference to false and hypocritical corrupted worshippers, vers. 2. That we may understand it, there is a threefold allusion in the words. The first, is to the description of the material Temple, where there were (as we may gather from 2 Chron. 4.9. and what goeth before) three several courts, the one called the most holy, into which the high Priest, only once a year entered. The second without that, was called the court of Priests. The third is called the great court, or court of the people, which was without all, and next to the city: unto this court the multitude of professing worshippers had access at their solemn times: and this allusion holdeth forth, that as the inner court, being compared with the outer, was small: and as many had access to this, which were not admitted to the former; so, during this time, the number of true worshippers shall be few, though the multitude of nominal Professors shall be great, because the Lord will set apart some few to himself, and disown the rest, even as if under the Old Testament he had appointed the outer court to be divided from the inner, the greater part had been rejected, but the better part reserved; so shall it be in the Gospel-church at that time, some few like the Temple shall be ordered and set aside for himself, and the visible body of Professors left out without any such special care: which leaving, or casting out, we conceive to be the same, as not to be sealed, and so taken notice of by God, Chap. 7. And this measuring will be sound to belong to the same persons who are sealed.
The state of the Church then is two wayes set down, First, More generally in respect of the condition of the Church her self, vers. 1, 2. Secondly, More particularly in respect of her Prophets, unto vers. 14. That by putting these two together, it may be seen what posture she was to be in. Both these descriptions are set down with allusion to phrases in the Old Testament. The state of the Church in respect of her self, during that time, is again two wayes set out, 1. With reference to the true worshippers, vers. 1. 2. With reference to false and hypocriticall corrupted worshippers, vers. 2. That we may understand it, there is a threefold allusion in the words. The first, is to the description of the materiall Temple, where there were (as we may gather from