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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.
Hence also secondly, we may from the former grounds argue for the baptizing of children, thus. If whole Kingdoms and Nations may in a peculiar manner be Churches to Christ under the Gospel, and it be Christs glory to have it so, Then are many children to be baptized; But the former is true. Ergo, &c. The consequence will appear by considering these two, 1. That under Nations becoming the Lords, children must be comprehended and be His also. 2. That by becoming His visibly in a Church-state and relation, there is an actual right to the Sacrament of Baptism, as a visible badge of that relation.
Hence also secondly, we may from the former grounds argue for the baptizing of children, thus. If whole Kingdoms and Nations may in a peculiar manner be Churches to Christ under the Gospel, and it be Christs glory to have it so, Then are many children to be baptized; But the former is true. Ergo, &c. The consequence will appear by considering these two, 1. That under Nations becoming the Lords, children must be comprehended and be His also. 2. That by becoming His visibly in a Church-state and relation, there is an actuall right to the Sacrament of Baptism, as a visible badge of that relation.
For the 1. we say, if Nations be Christs, Then children must be His; they are a great part of every Nation, and are included under all the former acceptions; yea, although it were but some of all sorts in a Nation, yet even in that sense children could not be excluded; no Nation will be His, if children be not His. 2. These Nations come in the room of the Jews, but their children were a great part of that Church. 3. Nations there take in the Jews re-ingrafting in what they fell from, but they and their children were broken off: Beside, if the Jews had not their children restored to Covenant with them, it might seem that in that respect their privileges were less by Christs coming than formerly. 4. Nations here are to be understood in reference to the promise, Gen. 12. In thy seed shall all Nations be blessed: and if children cannot be secluded there, but that blessing must be understood to reach them, why should they be excluded here, or in that commission (