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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 application of it, we shall, 1. see what general characters may be drawn from the Text for helping us to fix the time. 2. See how the application may be made out.
In the application of it, we shall, 1. see what generall characters may be drawn from the Text for helping us to fix the time. 2. See how the application may be made out.
In the first we intend not to be peremptory, yet these things may be concluded concerning it, according to the grounds formerly laid,
1. It is clear that the end of these forty and two months of the witnesses prophesying in sackcloth and Antichrists tyranny, is discernible, being so clearly evidenced by the witnesses laying by their sackcloth, their death and glorious appearance again in a settled and secure condition. This certainly will fall in about the time that Religion was reformed, and the Popes tyranny in a great part discovered and rejected. The forty and two months then must be acknowledged immediately to proceed this time of Reformation. This also will be confirmed if we consider that the sounding of the seventh trumpet doth immediately succeed to that time, and that the vials which begin to be poured out upon the Kingdom of the beast, do immediately follow this his height, and begin the change; which doth also evidence, that this change must be reckoned from the begun fall of Antichrist; and so consequently his height and dominion during these forty and two months must be antecedent to this.
1. It is clear that the end of these fourty and two moneths of the witnesses prophesying in sackcloth and Antichrists tyrannie, is discernable, being so clearly evidenced by the witnesses laying by their sackcloth, their death and glorious appearance again in a settled and secure condition. This certainly will fall in about the time that Religion was reformed, and the Popes tyrannie in a great part discovered and rejected. The fourty and two moneths then must be acknowledged immediately to preceed this time of Reformation. This also will be confirmed if we consider that the sounding of the seventh trumpet doth immediately succeed to that time, and that the vials which begin to be powred out upon the Kingdom of the beast, do immediately follow this his height, and begin the change; which doth also evidence, that this change must be reckoned from the begun fall of Antichrist; and so consequently his height and dominion during these fourty and two moneths must be antecedent to this.