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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.
In the Inscription, the Lord, the directer of this Epistle, doth set forth Himself in these three, 1. He that is holy. 2. He that is true: these are two essential Attributes of the God-head, and show that our Lord Jesus is God. And He taketh these stiles to Himself in this place, that, 1. He may show unto this honest Church, that their honesty could not but be approven of Him, who was holiness it self. And, 2. to strengthen their Faith in the expectation of the performance of His promises, however they looked improbable-like, because He who made them is true, and truth it self. The third Title, is, ⟨p. 191⟩He that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth: This respecteth His Office, and holdeth Him forth as the great Steward of the House of God, who is entrusted with the management of what concerneth the same, and is invested with Power and Authority suitable thereunto. It alludeth to Isa. 22.20, 21, 22, &c. where the Lord, speaking of His preferring Eliakim unto the government of Jerusalem and Judah, doth express it thus, And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder: So, He shall open, and none shall shut, and He shall shut, and none shall open. Now this, as attributed here to Christ, is not to be understood principally of His essential and absolute Dominion as God: for, that cannot be called the key of the house of David; but it's to be understood of His Mediatory Kingdom, whereby He, as Mediator, is invested with Power and Authority for ordering the affairs of the house of God. And as it standeth in this verse, it doth hold forth, 1. That Christ Jesus, as Mediator, hath a peculiar oversight and Government of the Church. 2. That in this Dominion of Christs, is fulfilled the promise of perpetuating the power of the house of David: therefore it's called the key of the house of David, which is committed to Him. 3. Here is held forth the Sovereignty and absoluteness of Christs Dominion: therefore He shutteth, and no man openeth; and openeth, and no man shutteth: there is no marring of any of His orders: for, He having obtained this Name above every Name by Gods exalting of Him thereunto, Philip. 2.9. there can be no imaginable competition with Him in the exercise of this Power. 4.
In the Inscription, the Lord, the directer of this Epistle, doth set forth Himself in these three, 1. He that is holy. 2. He that is true: these are two essential Attributes of the God-head, and shew that our Lord Jesus is God. And He taketh these stiles to Himself in this place, that, 1. He may shew unto this honest Church, that their honestie could not but be approven of Him, who was holinesse it self. And, 2. to strengthen their Faith in the expectation of the performance of His promises, however they looked improbable-like, because He who made them is true, and truth it self. The third Title, is,