A37035:2113
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 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.
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 reall work of Repentance upon all the remnant of that Kingdom (for Chap. 16. even when the vials are powred forth, we find they repent not) but as at Christs crucifixion (Matth. 27.54.) Gods hand was so discernable 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 Abbayes (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 businesse. The scope is, to shew the extraordinarinesse of Gods appearing, and the impression which it should have upon many formerly friends to Antichrists Kingdom.
This 14. vers. (The second woe is past, and behold, the third woe cometh quickly) is to be expounded as vers. 12. Chap. 9. By it the march of the seventh trumpet is cleared to be at the begun change of Religion in the world, and to show that what formerly hath passed, doth belong unto the former trumpets, tending to that scope, that John and the people of God might be comforted against the sad things foretold by the fifth and sixth trumpets: therefore, that which formerly was under a type revealed to John, Chap. 10. is in this Chap. by word (for his greater confirmation) renewed and repeated.