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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
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and by it, a Minister is incapacitated to deal in secret with God for the people and is apt to lay stumbling▪ blocks before them: and so, partly by wanting what he should have, and partly by being prone to foster their security, or rifle their wounds untenderly, or stumble them by his carriage, he, in these and many other respects, looketh as one not suited and fitted in an ordinary, at least a kindly, way, for the begetting of many: so that whatever in some extraordinary cases the Lord may do; yet this is most usual: which should make people desire lively Ministers, and pray that they may be kept so; and also should make Ministers conscionably see to their own particular conditions, and that in reference to their Ministry, least by their declining in their own Spiritual estate, and their neglecting thereof, they have no less influence on the fruitlessness of their Ministry, than by the direct neglecting of proper ministerial duties.
and by it, a Minister is incapacitated to deal in secret with God for the people and is apt to lay stumbling▪ blocks before them: and so, partly by wanting what he should have, and partly by being prone to foster their securitie, or rifle their wounds untenderly, or stumble them by his carriage, he, in these and many other respects, looketh as one not suited and fitted in an ordinary, at least a kindly, way, for the begetting of many: so that whatever in some extraordinary cases the Lord may do; yet this is most usual: which should make people desire lively Ministers, and pray that they may be kept so; and also should make Ministers conscionably see to their own particular conditions, and that in reference to their Ministrie, least by their declining in their own Spiritual estate, and their neglecting thereof, they have no lesse influence on the fruitlessenesse of their Ministrie, than by the direct neglecting of proper ministerial duties.
From this also we may gather, in answer to the last Question, That no personal corruption in joint worshippers▪ doth pollute any of the Lords Ordinances to another; or, on that account, necessitate a separation from them: for, if the corruption of any had such influence, then it were especially the corruption of Ministers; and if the corruption of Ministers did so, then it were not to be thought that the Lord would have such; even after their discovery, to be acknowledged still to be Ministers, which yet here and in the former instances is clear. The Word and Sacraments administered by such, if rightly received and improved, are owned by Him as His Word and Sacraments, as well as when administered by the most Holy, as from the considering of the forementioned instances may appear.