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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.
when the great temporal judgement of God against heathenish persecutors is consummated; it is also mentioned, Chap. 16. We take this to be the general hint of what the seven vials afterwards express, as is said: for, Chap. 15.5, 6. immediately after the opening of the Temple, the seven Angels with the vials come forth, as being formerly kept up, now they appear.
when the great temporall judgement of God against heathenish persecuters is consummated; it is also mentioned, Chap. 16. We take this to be the generall hint of what the seven vials afterwards expresse, as is said: for, Chap. 15.5, 6. immediately after the opening of the Temple, the seven Angels with the vials come forth, as being formerly kept up, now they appear.
By this similitude of opening the Temple, this is set forth, that as in the Jewish times during their greatest defections, there was still some Temple and Church, and at the time of Reformation there was no new Temple built, nor new Circumcision instituted nor Priests appointed, but corruptions were removed, and the Temple and Priests put again to their own proper use and duty; so, during the defection of Antichrist, there should still be a Church, Temple, Ordinances, and Ministers; and that the bridging of the Gospel again to public in the world after that, should not be by erecting a new Church and new Ordinances or appointing new Officers, but should be by the purging away of the former corruptions and applying of the Ordinances and Officers to their own former use: for, it is the same Temple after Reformation which was before, but now it is opened; the woman (Chap. 12.) is the same under persecution, while she is in the wilderness during the 1260. days, that she was before her fleeing, and continueth to be the same after her return from the wilderness; only that which by Antichrists additions was veiled and corrupted, now by their removal becometh more visible and pure. Upon this ground it is that the reviving again of Religion is commonly called Reformation, not as bringing in any thing new, but as purging what formerly was corrupted. Upon this ground Baptism continueth to be Baptism though ⟨p. 510⟩