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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
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4. Their Commission which they have from Christ, will suit as well in one Congregation ⟨p. 109⟩as in another, it being indefinite to Preach the Gospel without respect to this or that particular People; and it agreeth also with their office, and His end: seeing therefore their Commission, in the matter of it, is not bounded, What warrant is there to bound their Authority, as if as Ambassadors they did treat with one People, and as private persons with another; whereas their Commission, in it self, is indefinite, and by accidental considerations but appropriated some way to one people more than another? For further clearing whereof, consider,
4. Their Commission which they have from Christ, will suit as well in one Congregation ⟨p. 109⟩as in another, it being indefinit to Preach the Gospel without respect to this or that particular People; and it agreeth also with their office, and His end: seing therefore their Commission, in the matter of it, is not bounded, What warrand is there to bound their Authority, as if as Ambassadours they did treat with one People, and as private persons with another; whereas their Commission, in it self, is indefinite, and by accidentall considerations but appropriated some way to one people more than another? For further clearing whereof, consider,
1. That the Apostles had their bounds in Christian policy assigned to them; yet notwithstanding might they Authoritatively, as Apostles, act anywhere in the Church: therefore will not the particular allotting of Congregations for Ministers in a special manner, confine their Authority within the same. It's true, they were Apostles of the Catholic Church, and so might use Apostolic power in any part thereof, which a Minister cannot do; yet proportionally, he is a Minister of that same Church, as is said: and therefore as that peculiar delegation did not mar the Apostles in the use of their Apostolic power when it was called for any other where; (for, although they did it in an extraordinary way, yet Peter had still Apostolic power in reference to the Gentiles, and Paul to the Jews, when they exercised it;) So may a Minister have Ministerial power, in Ministerial acts, and may act by virtue thereof, when in an ordinary way he is called to it without the bounds of his own Congregation.