A37035:894
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.
If any should say, 1. That this looketh like the way of rigid trying of Church-members, and seemeth to favour that conceit. Answ. 1. I am not speaking of the manner of proceeding, but of the thing, what ever way any Judicatory or persons in Christian prudence shall take to satisfy themselves in the particular, That I conceive can be regulated by no certain directions: for, that will be fit in one case, which will not be in an other, &c. 2. Although there be a proving and trying here called-for; yet it will not hold as necessary to all members: because there is not the like ground; nay, nor such precepts nor practices for trial of members, as there i• in this: and were it so clear for members, I suppose it were hard to shift it. Yea, 3. This doth overturn that rigidity and scrupulosity concerning Church-members, it is so far from strengthening of it: for, if there be ⟨p. 205⟩somewhat singular required of a Minister, and if one that is already a Church-member be yet to be proved, if probably he be holy ere he be a Minister (so that one may be a Church-member for his holiness, and yet unfit, in respect of his being defective in this qualification, to be a Minister; yea, a Deacon) Then is there not such rigid and accurate search to be made for positive evidences in every Church-member: for then, there could be no addition to it, or further length to go: But from this, it is clear that something is required in the trial of an Intrant to the Ministry, more than of one to be admitted into the Church: for one may be warrantably admitted to the Church, who yet may be unfit in this respect to be a Minister: therefore the extending of this conclusion to all the members indifferently, is unwarrantable: for, this new trying of them, supposeth the former not to be so exact, and yet all this probation is to be of such as are within.
If any should say, 1. That this looketh like the way of rigid trying of Church-members, and seemeth to favour that conceit. Answ. 1. I am not speaking of the manner of proceeding, but of the thing, what ever way any Judicatory or persons in Christian prudence shall take to satisfie themselves in the particular, That I conceive can be regulated by no certain directions: for, that will be fit in one case, which will not be in an other, &c. 2. Although there be a proving and trying here called-for; yet it will not hold as necessary to all members: because there is not the like ground; nay, nor such precepts nor practices for triall of members, as there i in this: and were it so clear for members, I suppose it were hard to shift it. Yea, 3. This doth overturn that rigidity and scrupulosity concerning Church-members, it is so far from strengthning of it: for, if there be