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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 1 › Chapter 2
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.
There is no sort of men more hurtful to the Church, by obstructing Christs end in His Ordinances, to wit, the edification of His People: for, such profit them not at all, Jer. 23. yea, they stand in the way of their profiting, sometimes by corrupt Doctrine; sometimes by example; sometimes by saddening and weakening of these who look more tenderly to the practice of Godliness: and if no-other way; yet by filling the room, and so standing in the way of the peoples being provided with such as might be helpful and faithful. Now, considering the great respect that our Lord Jesus hath to the edification of His People; and considering the weight that He hath placed upon this Ministry, as a mean for promoving of that end, and withal, the great obstruction that follows to that end, when this mean disappoints, it cannot but be accounted acceptable to Him to remove such an obstruction. Yea, 7. Considering that there is nothing He commends more than mutual love to His Disciples, and there is nothing wherein love can appear more to them, than in seeking their spiritual edification, which was that wherein His own love eminently kythed; and there is nothing wherein this kind of love kythes more to Him or them, than that they be fed with knowledge and understanding, by Pastors according to His own heart, according to His word to Peter, Peter, loves thou me? then feed my lambs: it cannot therefore but be looked on by Him as acceptable service. And indeed, if it be commendable to relieve a neighbours beast from hazard, when there is a slothful shepherd; or to relieve the bodily life from temporal hazard, how much more must it be commendable to prevent the eternal hazard of immortal souls, which by corrupt Ministers cannot but be in hazard? 8. There is nothing that more rejoiceth and hardeneth corrupt men, than when they are like People, like Priest, and have Pastors according to their own heart; and there is nothing that they are more provoked and displeased with, than the censuring of such: yea, even men who have no respect almost to Religion at all, yet abhor and oppose the censuring of such, as if it were a piece of Religion (or rather of opposition to Religion) to do so; which certainly showeth that the following of this trial, must be a main furtherance to Godliness, and cometh near the Kingdom of Christ. 9.
There is no sort of men more hurtfull to the Church, by obstructing Christs end in His Ordinances, to wit, the edification of His People: for, such profit them not at all,