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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.
The Lord, having cleared and confirmed his people in reference to the fifth and sixth trumpets, He now proceedeth to the blowing of the seventh, which bringeth the last great woe: for understanding of it, there are two things to be observed,
THe Lord, having cleared and confirmed his people in reference to the fifth and sixth trumpets, He now proceedeth to the blowing of the seventh, which bringeth the last great wo: for understanding of it, there are two things to be observed,
1. That it dependeth upon and immediately succeedeth unto the second woe, so that where the second woe hath its accomplishment, there this third taketh its beginning. Now, the the second woe, having its end at the earthquakes shaking of some of the Romish Dominion, the same hour when the witnesses are taken up to heaven immediately after Antichrists absolute domineering, this woe cometh quickly upon the back of that, vers. 13, 14. and so must contemporate with the breaking forth of Reformation and its establishment in the Empire: we conceive therefore Antichrists height to be the march between these two trumpets, the sixth leaving him in his last act of supremacy at the very turn, and the seventh carrying on his ruin; for, these events of the witnesses ascending to heaven, a part of Romes falling, and this seventh trumpet, are not linked together as successive one to another, but as contemporary one with another, the same hour, there being an hint given of that under the sixth trumpet, which is carried on and perfected by the seventh, to show where the march is to be fixed. Beside, the height of Antichrist and ruin, being woes of a distinct and contrary nature, it is not like that any considerable part of both should be comprehended under one trumpet which containeth but one woe; and therefore it is certain, that his dominion belongeth to the sixth, and his ruin to the seventh: we think therefore it is safest to begin the seventh at the beginning of his ruin, especially considering that by this trumpet cometh the news of the Kingdoms of the earth their becoming the Lords; which consideration doth also confirm what formerly we laid down of the vials their being contemporary with the seventh trumpet, and none of them with the sixth.