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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 3
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 second way by which he presseth these directions, is more expressly set down in the end of vers. 2. For I have not found thy works perfect before God: which is, in a word, what ever men think of them as before them; yet I, having tried them according as they are before God and in His sight, who seeth further than men, have not found them to be perfect before Him. This word in the Greek is [Greek or Hebrew], a word that is most ordinarily used in reference to Ministers, and setteth forth integrity and sincerity in their Ministry, when they fulfil or make full proof of their Ministry, as it is, 2 Tim. 4.5. or when they fully preach the Gospel of Christ, as it is rendered, Rom. 15.19. and in other places. Therefore here it would seem especially to relate to the defects of the Minister, even when he went about his Ministerial duties. And it importeth, 1. That Ministers ministerial duties ought to be perfect before God. 2. That the Lord Jesus will especially take notice of them and their ministerial duties. 3. It importeth this, that there are many Ministers who are very fair in their outward ministerial carriage before others, and cannot be liable to any charge before men; that yet, when Christ cometh to try them, and reckon with them, will be found exceeding defective before God. And on this occasion it is fit to consider, 1. What is necessarily requisite, according to this form of speech, that a Ministers works may be perfect before God. 2. What maketh a Minister, that may be abounding in external labours, yet to be liable to this charge, that his works are not perfect before God. And this will clear a Question, which we left imperfect in the first verse, and not so particularly answered.
The second way by which he presseth these directions, is more expresly set down in the end of vers. 2. For I have not found thy works perfect before God: which is, in a word, what ever men think of them as before them; yet I, having tried them according as they are before God and in His sight, who seeth further than men, have not found them to be perfect before Him. This word in the Greek is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a word that is most ordinarily used in reference to Ministers, and setteth forth integrity and sincerity in their Ministrie, when they fulfill or make full proof of their Ministery, as it is,