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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.
The third effect following on this, is, a great number of men, even seven thousand men were slain. In the Original it is Names of men, pointing at some more eminent than others in this City: the meaning is, that as by the sudden ruin and fall of Cities, especially by earth-quakes, many inhabitants usually are destroyed; so by this begun ruin of the Romish antichristian Dominion, many of her followers shall be destroyed, and that of the most eminent and renowned among them: which may be fulfilled, partly, in the overthrows and defeats of Popish Armies, but especially the overturning of Abbeys, Monasteries, Cloisters, and religious Orders, whereby indeed a great part of that Dominion was eclipsed, and many of Babylons Citizens were cast out, and their habitations destroyed and brought to nought.
The third effect following on this, is, a great number of men, even seven thousand men were slain. In the Original it is Names of men, pointing at some more eminent than others in this City: the meaning is, that as by the sudden ruine and fall of Cities, especially by earth-quakes, many inhabitants usually are destroyed; so by this begun ruine of the Romish antichristian Dominion, many of her followers shall be destroyed, and that of the most eminent and renowned among them: which may be fulfilled, partly, in the overthrows and defeats of Popish Armies, but especially the overturning of Abbayes, Monasteries, Cloisters, and religious Orders, whereby indeed a great part of that Dominion was eclipsed, and many of Babylons Citizens were cast out, and their habitations destroyed and brought to nought.
The fourth effect followeth, And the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of Heaven: which is not to be understood of a real work of Repentance upon all the remnant of that Kingdom (for Chap. 16. even when the vials are poured forth, we find they repent not) but as at Christs crucifixion (Matth. 27.54.) Gods hand was so discernible that it made many onlookers smite on their breasts, and acknowledge something of God to be there; so this sudden begun overturning of Antichrists Kingdom, and particularly the pulling down of Monasteries and Abbeys (formerly so sacred) shall be so remarkable, that many of that Kingdom shall at least in profession renounce fellowship with it, and others be made to acknowledge something more than humane in this business. The scope is, to show the extraordinariness of Gods appearing, and the impression which it should have upon many formerly friends to Antichrists Kingdom.