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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 third thing in the Body of this Epistle, to wit, the way how the Lord presseth these exhortations in this verse, is by subjoining a sharp threatening, If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shall not know: this threatening is general; but it is the more comprehensive and sharp, If we consider these two, 1. That when He saith, He will come, &c. He doth not signify any particular stroke He will bring on ⟨p. 184⟩them, whereby they may gather, that there is no particular threatening; but it may be comprehended under this general: and so it may be, I will come unto thee and remove thy Candlestick, or fight against thee with the sword of my mouth, or call thee and thy people some extraordinary way to a reckoning, and such like. The sin of hypocrisy, especially in a Minister, is a most dreadful sin, and they who are guilty thereof, are in a most dreadful condition: for, their doom is bl••k, and God may fill therein all the threatenings that are in this Book, as it is in Deut. 29.20. and Rev. 22.18. And they themselves cannot tell how many evils they are liable unto at Christs coming upon them. 2. If we consider, that this coming of Christs, is no friendly coming to them; but as the coming of an enemy upon them, and that in some terrible manner, suddenly and inexpectedly surprising them. And so it presseth them to the present exercise of Repentance, because the coming of the Lord would be dreadful unto them in that condition; and yet it was hard to know how suddenly they might be surprised by the same.
The third thing in the Body of this Epistle, to wit, the way how the Lord presseth these exhortations in this verse, is by subjoyning a sharp threatning, If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shall not know: this threatning is general; but it is the more comprehensive and sharp, If we consider these two, 1. That when He saith, He will come, &c. He doth not signifie any particular stroke He will bring on ⟨p. 184⟩them, whereby they may gather, that there is no particular threatning; but it may be comprehended under this generall: and so it may be, I will come unto thee and remove thy Candlestick, or fight against thee with the sword of my mouth, or call thee and thy people some extraordinary way to a reckoning, and such like. The sin of hypocrisie, especially in a Minister, is a most dreadfull sin, and they who are guilty thereof, are in a most dreadfull condition: for, their doom is blk, and God may fill therein all the threatnings that are in this Book, as it is in