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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 Body of the Epistle, we have these four, 1. Their case is proposed, and aggravated, vers. 15. 2. They are threatened, vers. 16. and the reason thereof is given, vers. 17. 3. The cure is proposed, and commended by way of counsel, vers. 18. And lastly, The improving thereof, and the practice of some other things needful to their case, are pressed, vers. 19, 20.
In the Body of the Epistle, we have these four, 1. Their case is proposed, and aggravated, vers. 15. 2. They are threatned, vers. 16. and the reason thereof is given, vers. 17. 3. The cure is proposed, and commended by way of counsel, vers. 18. And lastly, The improving thereof, and the practice of some other things needful to their case, are pressed, vers. 19, 20.
Their case is in short, Thou art neither cold nor hot, but, as it is, vers. 16. Thou art luke-warm. By cold here, is understood the want of all form and profession; and so, a being in their natural and heathenish condition without any change: This is clear from the scope. By hot, is understood not only to have profession, but to have power, warmness and life therewith, and so to have the change through. The condition of this Church, was neither altogether without a profession, nor yet having power with a profession; But having renounced gross Idolatry and profanity, and having been kept free from corruptions in Doctrine, she satisfied her self in that formal profession, without singleness and zeal in the performance of these duties which she went about: therefore they are called luke-warm, as if some way the cold had been put off them; and yet not being throughly warm and hot, they continued to be luke-warm, which, making water most loathsome to the stomach, it is here alluded unto, to show how loathsome this indifferency in the practice of Religion was to our Lord Jesus. That this is their very condition, is clear from the scope, and from the amplification following, where it appeareth they had some form, and therefore thought well of themselves; and yet were indeed miserable and wretched under the same. Also, the Lords provoking them to be zealous, vers. 19. showeth, that their fault did consist mainly in what was opposite to this. And so their condition will be like Israels in the days of Elijah,