A37035:881
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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For the second, to wit learning, what to say of it will be harder to decide, seeing it hath many several acceptions, as, 1. It may be taken for acquaintance with Scripture, and with divine and heavenly things in it, or, for acquaintance with humane literature, as knowledge of tongues, arts, sciences, &c. 2. We may consider learning, either materially in it self, as it is a fitness which a man hath to reason for a Truth against an Error, to draw conclusions from premisses, to open hard places, or reconcile seeming contradicting places, and to answer objections, &c. or we may consider it in the manner how men come by this faculty, or acquire this fitness to understand tongues, to investigate and search into difficulties, &c. and thereby come to be enabled to improve the gift given, and to stir it up: which is either by an extraordinary illumination, as the Apostles had it, and Prophets of old, without any mediate pains or means; or by an ordinary and mediate way of reading, studying, and learning of these by mediate helps, which may conduce for that end. Now, in answer we say,
For the second, to wit learning, what to say of it will be harder to decide, seing it hath many several acceptions, as, 1. It may be taken for acquaintance with Scripture, and with divine and heavenly things in it, or, for acquaintance with humane literature, as knowledge of tongues, arts, sciences, &c. 2. We may consider learning, either materially in it self, as it is a fitnesse which a man hath to reason for a Truth against an Error, to draw conclusions from premisses, to open hard places, or reconcile seeming contradicting places, and to answer objections, &c. or we may consider it in the manner how men come by this facultie, or acquire this fitnesse to understand tongues, to investigate and search into difficulties, &c. and thereby come to be enabled to improve the gift given, and to stir it up: which is either by an extraordinary illumination, as the Apostles had it, and Prophets of old, without any mediate pains or means; or by an ordinary and mediate way of reading, studying, and learning of these by mediate helps, which may conduce for that end. Now, in answer we say,
1. That learning considered materially, or in it self, as it implieth acquaintance with the