A37035:2094
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
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2. It tormenteth their will and affection, that when they would sleep on and delight themselves in these ways of their own, free preaching marreth their quietness, even as when Elijah cometh to Ahab with this word, Hast thou killed and gotten possession? and so proceedeth in the threatening, 1 King. 21. he goeth home sad and all the pleasure that he expected in his new garden evanished; so saith the same King of Micajab, that he hated him, because he never prophesied good to him, he was alway thorturing him as Elijah did, and as Moses and Aaron did to Pharaoh.
2. It tormenteth their will and affection, that when they would sleep on and delight themselves in these wayes of their own, free preaching marreth their quietnesse, even as when Elias cometh to Ahab with this word, Hast thou killed and gotten possession? and so proceedeth in the threatning, 1 King. 21. he goeth home sad and all the pleasure that he expected in his new garden evanished; so saith the same King of Micajab, that he hated him, because he never prophesied good to him, he was alway thorturing him as Elijah did, and as Moses and Aaron did to Pharaoh.
3. It tormenteth their corruptions and lighteth upon their Idols, by discovering and reproving them, and so stirreth up their enmity, as John's free preaching did to Herod and Herodias; they touch folks sores, and that tormenteth them, though it be tenderly done; yea, some good men, as Asa, (1 King. 16.10.) have been tormented with this and could not abide it; and when enmity and envy are wakened, they have a cruel torment, as we may see in Haman at Mordecai. There is no greater torment to a malignant heart, swollen with enmity against the power of Godliness in the Godly, than to have a faithful testimony against it: and this pain proceedeth not from any unskilfulness and untendernesse in the Minister, but from the desperateness of their corruption, which is like some grievous sore that cannot abide to be cleansed or purged by the most tender Physician.