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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.
From the seventh Verse he proceedeth to describe the Churches estate in the condition of her Ministers. The first step whereof, i.e. their prophesying in sackcloth, contemporary with the Gentiles treading the holy City under foot, is past: now follow other two steps further, 1. What was the low condition they were brought unto, and the beasts prevailing over these witnesses, killing and murdering them, to vers. 12. The last step is their Resurrection, and the making of them and their testimony and the state of the Church more glorious and visible than before.
FRom the seventh Verse he proceedeth to describe the Churches estate in the condition of her Ministers. The first step whereof, i.e. their prophesying in sackloth, contemporary with the Gentiles treading the holy City under foot, is past: now follow other two steps further, 1. What was the low condition they were brought unto, and the beasts prevailing over these witnesses, killing and murthering them, to vers. 12. The last step is their Resurrection, and the making of them and their testimonie and the state of the Church more glorious and visible than before.
Their low condition is set out, 1. in their death. 2. What went before it, vers. 7.8. And, 3. in what followed after in the enemies insulting, vers. 9, 10. set forth in several circumstances.
Their low condition is set out, 1. in their death. 2. What went before it, vers. 7.8. And, 3. in what followed after in the enemies insulting, vers. 9, 10. set forth in severall circumstances.
The first circumstance, whereby this is set out, is the time of their killing, vers. 7. When they have finished their testimony, or were about to finish their testimony; for, it is within the term of Antichrists height that this is done: what was called prophesying before, is called their testimony here: because for that end they were to testify and preach. It is called their testimony, to set out that peculiar task which God had given them as their work and errand that behoved to be done and ended, even as it is said of John, that he finished his course,