A37035:2088
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.
Vers. 8. Two circumstances of their low condition are further added, 1. That after death they shall not be buried: which cometh from two grounds, 1. from that beasts malice that was not content with the bodily death of Christs witnesses, but followed them with contempt, and exposed them to opprobrie even after death, it being common and ordinary in the persecutions of France, England, Germany, Helvetia, &c. to keep the bodies, especially of Ministers, unburied after their death, long. So Zuinglius, being killed by the Popish Cantons, was thus insulted over, and the Admiral of France and many others at the Massacre of Paris. Sometimes their bones were raised and burned after their burial, as Bucers was in Queen Mary's days. However, it holdeth forth cruelty, even after death, seeking to shame and rub reproach upon their very names and works, when they ⟨p. 487⟩thought they had their will. 2. It proceedeth from Gods overruling providence, that will not have all memory of these witnesses testimonies buried; but though they be low, and as it were killed, and unburied, yet He maketh their enemies insulting over them in their low condition, the forfeiting, imprisoning, banishing and keeping of them under restraints, a mean to keep their testimony alive. So that though the witnesses be despicable to them, and they think now that they are down, and shall never rise again; yet there is a testimony visible, and they are witnesses above the ground still; and things are not desperate, but even these witnesses in their death, imprisonments, &c. witness and overcome.
Vers. 8. Two circumstances of their low condition are further added, 1. That after death they shall not be buried: which cometh from two grounds, 1. from that beasts malice that was not content with the bodily death of Christs witnesses, but followed them with contempt, and exposed them to opprobrie even after death, it being common and ordinary in the persecutions of France, England, Germanie, Helvetia, &c. to keep the bodies, especially of Ministers, unburied after their death, long. So Zuinglius, being killed by the Popish Cantons, was thus insulted over, and the Admiral of France and many others at the Massacre of Paris. Sometimes their bones were raised and burned after their buriall, as Bucers was in Queen Maries dayes. However, it holdeth forth cruelty, even after death, seeking to shame and rub reproach upon their very names and works, when they ⟨p. 487⟩