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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 third thing in the Body of the Epistle, is, the threatening, vers. 22, and 23. Whereby He again wonderfully presseth her, and these who were seduced by her, to the exercise of that much slighted duty of Repentance. The threatening hath three parts, 1. Something is threatened. 2. An exception is put in, leaving a door open to Mercy. 3. The scope or effect of the Lords executing this threatening, is set down. The thing threatened, is threefold, according to the several parties that He threateneth. 1. For Jezebel, Behold, I Will cast her upon a bed: which pointeth out some remarkable stroke or plague threatened to be inflicted upon her, whereby she should become a spectacle to others, and yet not be instantly removed. 2. For them that commit adultery with her, I will cast them into great tribulation, that is, I will bring upon them that partake of her sin, whether in respect of spiritual or bodily adultery (for she was guilty of both) grievous and public temporal strokes. And, 3. I will kill her children with death: for, her children, it's like were children begotten in their unclean conversing together: them the Lord threatens to remove; and thereby to give an evidence of His displeasure at their way, as He did Davids child for his adultery. For, we conceive, the children of her spiritual whoredom are understood under that expression, these that commit adultery with her. From which we may see, that gross Errors may procure many temporal and bodily crosses, as was formerly said.
The third thing in the Body of the Epistle, is, the threatning, vers. 22, and 23. Whereby He again wonderfully presseth her, and these who were seduced by her, to the exercise of that much slighted duty of Repentance. The threatning hath three parts, 1. Somthing is threatned. 2. An exception is put in, leaving a door open to Mercy. 3. The scope or effect of the Lords executing this threatning, is set down. The thing threatned, is threefold, according to the several parties that He threateneth. 1. For Iezebel, Behold, I Will cast her upon a bed: which pointeth out some remarkable stroak or plague threatned to be inflicted upon her, whereby she should become a spectacle to others, and yet not be instantly removed. 2. For them that commit adultery with her, I will cast them into great tribulation, that is, I will bring upon them that partake of her sin, whether in respect of spiritual or bodily adultery (for she was guilty of both) grievous and publick temporal stroaks. And, 3. I will kill her children with death: for, her children, it's like were children begotten in their unclean conversing together: them the Lord threatens to remove; and thereby to give an evidence of His displeasure at their way, as He did Davids child for his adultery. For, we conceive, the children of her spiritual whoredom are understood under that expression, these that commit adultery with her. From which we may see, that grosse Errors may procure many temporal and bodily crosses, as was formerly said.