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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.
In the 13. vers. this glorious condition of the witnesses is set out by four glorious concomitants going alongst with it, or consequents following upon it, 1. And the same hour was there a great earth-quake. By earth-quake, Chap. 6.12. and vers. 19. of this same Chapter is understood great and sudden temporal mutations. By this we understand the great commotions which usually accompany Reformation, whereby Kingdoms are put in an uproar, Satan and his instruments wakening up enmity against the Gospel, and the Lord powerfully carrying on His design, maketh the earth, as it were, to shake till He accomplish it. This did really fall out, (and it may well be thought to be the fulfilling of this prophecy) in Germany, France, Holland, England, Scotland, &c. when at first the witnesses were brought to a visible Church-state separated from Rome.
In the 13. vers. this glorious condition of the witnesses is set out by four glorious concomitants going alongst with it, or consequents following upon it, 1. And the same hour was there a great earth-quake. By earth-quake, Chap. 6.12. and vers. 19. of this same Chapter is understood great and sudden temporall mutations. By this we understand the great commotions which usually accompanie Reformation, whereby Kingdoms are put in an uproar, Satan and his instruments wakening up enimity against the Gospel, and the Lord powerfully carrying on His design, maketh the earth, as it were, to shake till He accomplish it. This did really fall out, (and it may well be thought to be the fulfilling of this prophesie) in Germanie, France, Holland, England, Scotland, &c. when at first the witnesses were brought to a visible Church-state separated from Rome.
The second effect following upon the former, is, a tenth part of the city fell. It hath no name here, and therefore must be understood to relate to that called the great city, vers. 8. that is, the city having dominion over the Kings of the earth, Chap. 17. vers. 18. that is, Rome, to be taken not strictly in respect of that particular Town, but more largely in respect of its Empire and Dominion, as was formerly said. It is said, a tenth part of this Dominion falleth, because by this public preaching of the Gospel, and the witnesses separating of themselves from her, a great and considerable part of that Dominion is diminished and brought down: or, as Chap. 14. by that expression, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, is set forth not the destruction of a City alone, but the ruin of Antichrists Kingdom; so here, by the fall of a part of that City, we are to understand the begun ruin and destruction of that Kingdom, which was to accompany the reviving of light in the world, as is said, and was actually fulfilled in the withdrawing of England, Scotland, Denmark, Sweden, and a great part of Germany, France, Helvetia, Poland, Low Countries, &c. from their former dependence upon the beast.