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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
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6. We may add, that by the same Learned Author the time of Antichrists full reign, and the Prophets prophesying in sackcloth, are demonstrated exactly to be contemporary, having one beginning and continuance: and the expiring of either of them will prove the expiring of both, and infer the killing of the witnesses, which is immediately upon the back of both. Now, the time of Antichrists absolute dominion being expired, as is said, it must also follow, that the other two events in the prophecy, to wit, the Prophets prophesying in sackcloth, and their killing, must be fulfilled also.
6. We may add, that by the same Learned Author the time of Antichrists full reign, and the Prophets prophesying in sackcloth, are demonstrated exactly to be contemporary, having one beginning and continuance: and the expiring of either of them will prove the expiring of both, and infer the killing of the witnesses, which is immediately upon the back of both. Now, the time of Antichrists absolute dominion being expired, as is said, it must also follow, that the other two events in the prophesie, to wit, the Prophets prophesying in sackcloth, and their killing, must be fulfilled also.
Again if these 1260 days be accounted for so many years, and the beginning of them to contemporate with the opening of the seventh seal and first trumpet (as the same Learned Author doth assert) Then it will follow, that they must be ere now expired: for we have formerly cleared the first trumpet, and opening of the seventh seal to begin about the three hundred year or thereby, and therefore these days cannot be running (according to these principles) till now: yea, from that first Author, these things are clear, 1. That ⟨p. 496⟩the witnesses prophesying, the woman's flying, Antichrists reigning, and the treading of the outer Court by the Gentiles, do contemporate, and that with the first six trumpets. 2. That the woman's travelling, her bringing forth, and the lifting of her child to Heaven, Chap. 12. do contemporate with the first six seals. 3. He maketh (Chap. 12.) that taking up of the child to Heaven to be fulfilled in Constantin's reign and his admission to the Empire, as also that the woman's flying and wilderness-condition (which to him speaketh out a freedom of the Church to Religious exercises though abused by her to much defection and idolatry, as was in the people of Israels wilderness-estate after their delivery from Egypt) doth take in the whole estate of the Church from the close of Heathenish persecution immediately till the seventh trumpet blow. And seeing both these will fall about the 300. or 310. year, It followeth that this prophecy in sackcloth must begin then also, and so cannot be continuing till now.