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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
AN EXPOSITION Of the BOOK of the REVELATION. › Lecture 4 › Concerning the Waldenses.
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.
Concerning the Waldenses.
Having made mention of the Waldenses from the testimony of two Authors, it may be not impertinent to insert a little word more concerning them; partly, because the Books may not be at hand to every one, and partly because some Jesuits, and particularly Gretserus in his preface to Reinerius, imputeth (though injustly) to Illyri•s, that he had mutilated this Author in his edition of him: and he doth also impute many absurdities to them which we will not own, and therefore cannot claim them as witnesses: he denieth also, that these who were persecuted at Merindol, and the places beside were of that stock, we may therefore lay down more largely what the forecited Authors say, whose testimonies they cannot refuse. That Gretserus, in the fourth Tome of the Bibliotheca Patrum, doth insert several Writers their writings against the Waldenses; to this purpose, as he saith, That the latter Heretics may be confuted not only from new disputes, but from old writings, (and if there were not a likeness between their tenets and outs, this end by this could not be expected) amongst these are Reinerius, who, as he writeth himself, Chap. 3. was often upon the inquisition of these Heretics, Petrus de Pilichdorf, Lucas Tudensis and some other writings, and catalogues of their errors, without the names of the Authors. In the 4. Chap. Reinerius hath these words that were formerly cited, so that it may be a wonder how they could be charged with heresy and so persecuted as they were. Again, Chap. 5. He draweth their errors to three heads, 1. De blasphemiis, quibus blasphemant ⟨p. 502⟩Romanam Ecclesiam. 2. In their errors concerning the Sacraments and Saints; 3. Notat detestationes quibus omnes honestas & approbatas Ecclesiae consuetudines derestantur. A taste of all may be given shortly, 1. They say the Church of Rome is not the true Church, but Ecclesia malignantium; and that it began to decline in Sylvesters time, when poison was poured in the Church; they say that they were the Church, because they followed the Doctrine of Christ, of the Gospel and Apostles, both in word and deed; that the Roman Church is the whore in the Revelation, and these who are in her almost none of them keepeth the Doctrine of the Gospel; that they care not for the Pope and his statutes, but accounteth him the head of all errors; that none ought in the Church office;