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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
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this will make (even the idiot or stranger (1 Corinth. 14.) to say, Doubtless God is there. And that is more than an ordinary discourse, even of such a subject, thus to commend the Word and our selves to mens consciences in the fight of God; when by his assistance, He maketh the Gospel to triumph in every place, and to be a sweet savour to Him in all, 2 Corinth. 2.14. 4. This ministerial gift taketh in a seasonable way of speaking as to the time, occasion, hearers, &c. Thus it is a gift of right dividing the Word of Truth, 2 Tim. 2.15. so as neither to strengthen the wicked, nor to faint and make sad the righteous; but to lay battery at the proud imaginations of natural men, for taking in of these strong holds, and to pour oil in the wounds of exercised sinners, and that so, as the one, may not by the Preachers fault, partake of the allowance, or be wounded with the stroke that is designed for the other: this is indeed true learning, to be able to condescend and make plain a word in season to the weary, Isa. 50.4. and such a one, is a work-man that needeth not to be ashamed. 5. There is in this gift a [Greek or Hebrew], or holy boldness and freedom, whereby in an Authoritative way the Lords Word is spoken as it ought to be spoken, such as is observed to be in the chief Pastor his Preaching, Matth. 7.29. it is called (Col.4.3. and 4.) a door of utterance, and a speaking as it ought to be spoken; or, as it is, 1 Pet.4.11. as the oracles of God: so that in less or more, this gift ought to have a stamp of the Majesty of God on it, as His Word hath in itself. And this rebuking with Authority, that none despise this Ministry, is both often mentioned in Pauls practice, and recommended by him to others, in the persons of Timothy and Titus: and it is like, something of all hath been in this Angel of Philadelphia. And this power is not any thing physically and inseparably united to the man, or to his Preaching, but is in him a fitness and dexterity given of God, which He accompanieth with a singular impression by His Spirit ordinarily on the hearts and consciences of hearers, thereby discovering it to be of Him.