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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.
A fourth reason to the former three. That act of killing the witnesses, is the very last part of the height of the reign of Antichrist; for, he reigneth during the 1260. days preceding, which is the time of their prophesying in sackcloth, and insulteth and rejoiceth in a most eminent way when these witnesses are killed, Therefore cannot that be contemporary with any of the vials which do succeed to Antichrists height, and successively carry on his ruin: seeing therefore it is granted by all, that Antichrists ruin by the vials is begun; and it cannot be denied but Antichrists triumphing over the witnesses, is, as it were, the last part, and very Crisis of his uninterrupted tyranny, and so inconsistent with his decaying Kingdom; It must therefore be esteemed to proceed the vials, and so to be fulfilled. And therefore this being the last act of the sixth trumpet, wherein Antichrist is at his height; and seeing the vials each after other carry on his ruin, it cannot be thought that any of them, much less the first six, can contemporate with it.
A fourth reason to the former three. That act of killing the witnesses, is the very last part of the height of the reign of Antichrist; for, he reigneth during the 1260. dayes preceeding, which is the time of their prophesying in sackcloth, and insulteth and rejoyceth in a most eminent way when these witnesses are killed, Therefore cannot that be contemporary with any of the vials which do succeed to Antichrists height, and successively carry on his ruine: seing therefore it is granted by all, that Antichrists ruine by the vials is begun; and it cannot be denied but Antichrists triumphing over the witnesses, is, as it were, the last part, and very Crisis of his uninterrupted tyrannie, and so inconsistent with his decaying Kingdom; It must therefore be esteemed to preceed the vials, and so to be fulfilled. And therefore this being the last act of the sixth trumpet, wherein Antichrist is at his height; and seing the vials each after other carry on his ruine, it cannot be thought that any of them, much lesse the first six, can contemporate with it.
5. It may thus appear, If the vials express a different estate of the Church (to wit, its flourishing and Antichrists weakening,) from that which the fifth and sixth trumpet expresseth (to wit, Antichrists height, and the Churches low condition) Then they cannot contemporate together, but the one must be supposed to proceed the other; But this is true, that they hold forth different estates of the Church, as the exposition of them will clear, Therefore cannot fall in one time.