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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
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 prophecy of the witnesses, is foolishly applied by Papists to Enoch and Elijah, as if they were to come in person and prophesy against Antichrist, with a number of vain circumstances: It is enough to say of this, 1. There is no shadow from the word of any such application to Enoch and Elijah; and therefore more easily may be rejected than affirmed. 2. It no way contributeth to the scope, nor is consistent with what here is intended, which is to show the low condition of the Churches visible estate in her ordinary Ministers. Nor, 3. can it stand with what is said of these two their glorified estate, and that both in body and soul, and of Enoch that he was translated never to taste of death, Heb. 11. it were strange to bring glorified persons from Heaven to suffer, and to make them die most shamefully, whom yet the Scriptures exeem absolutely from death: and although some persons have been brought to life whose souls were glorified, while their bodies were in the grave, yet where body and soul are both completely glorified, that can in no ways be asserted, more than to be immortal as to the body, as well as the soul, and to be mortal, can stand together. There is another application no less strange, whereof Grotius is the author, of applying this to two Bishops of Jerusalem their testifying against Simon Magus. This is also destitute of reason, there being no evidence of the thing: beside, John is here prophesying of an event to come, and that of great and universal concernment to all Tongues, Nations, &c. and that of Simon Magus, was past, and of no such consequence: beside, the particular exposition of these witnesses killing and their being raised again visibly, will be enough to confute that opinion of it self. And the title of witnesses can no way be astricted to these two Bishops, supposing such to have been; for, there were still many moe testifying even against Simon Magus; and rather Paul and Peter should be by eminency accounted ⟨p. 483⟩witnesses against him, they living in his time, and encountering with him; yea, he being destroyed by the Ministry of Peter, if history be to be credited in this, and yet all the Lords witnesses, the Ministers, are represented by these two, and their estate described by theirs in opposition to the beasts followers, and all the rest of the world which rejoiced in their sufferings:
This prophesie of the witnesses, is foolishly applied by Papists to Enoch and Elias, as if they were to come in person and prophesie against Antichrist, with a number of vain circumstances: It is enough to say of this, 1. There is no shaddow from the word of any such application to Enoch and Elias; and therefore more easily may be rejected than affirmed. 2. It no way contributeth to the scope, nor is consistent with what here is intended, which is to shew the low condition of the Churches visible estate in her ordinary Ministers. Nor, 3. can it stand with what is said of these two their glorified estate, and that both in body and soul, and of Enoch that he was translated never to tast of death,