A37035:890
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.
Again, we say, That this qualification of holiness should be greatly respected both in a peoples calling, or choosing of a Minister, and in a Presbyteries ordaining of one for a People; so that if they should respect all other qualifications, and yet never enquire for this, they are exceeding faulty: and although holiness be not simply necessary to a Minister, as if without it he were not to be accounted so, when lawfully admitted, as is said; yet we conceive that neither a People, nor a Presbytery should pass over that qualification in their choice or Admission, so as to make no enquiry for it, or not to respect it, where, it may be, there is nothing to sway any to that opinion of the man in well grounded charity, but somewhat more to the contrary: for, the people are not left to call whom they will; if it were a Deacon, he is to be a man full of the holy Ghost, Act. 6. And this place being the first clear evidence of a peoples interest in their calling of a Minister, this rule for their proceeding must be of force also. Again, it being such a great Trust, as to be entrusted with the Oracles of God, and with the souls of People, can he be thought fit to endeavour the saving of the souls of others, who yet maketh no conscience in taking heed to his own? This is the Apostles reasoning, 1 Tim. 3.2, 3, 4, 5. If a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the Church of God? which is proposed by way of Question, to show the unanswerableness of that reasoning, by which He presseth the observing of the former qualifications. And certainly these two, are not without weighty reasons put together, Act. 20.28. and 1 Tim. 4.16. Take heed to thy self, and to the Flock and Doctrine, But to show this, that who careth not for the one, will never natively and naturally care for the other. Especially, that word, which followeth being considered, So shalt thou save thy self and those that hear thee, intimating, that carelessness in his own walk, may not only mar his own salvation, but also the salvation of his Hearers, seeing these two ordinarily are carried-on jointly, as in this Epistle: And, can people dispense with this, to have only a form of Ordinances, not caring whether their Ministers have fruit amongst them or not? or that the profit be to many or few?