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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.
The second thing in the Body of the Epistle, is, the Lords threatening of them for this ill, by an expression suitable to the ill, vers. 16. So then, because thou art lukewarm, neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth: which is in sum this, seeing then thou art in a luke-warm temper, which usually mens stomachs can more hardly keep than what is cold, or what is hot, but must spew out the same as a thing loathsome unto them; so will I in some singular and extraordinary manner evidence my loathing of this thy luke-warm hypocritical temper. And this expression, to spew out, &c. seemeth to import these three, 1. That it shall be such a judgement as will be an evidence of the Lords loathing of them, and giving up with them without respect to their form. 2. It implieth a making of them loathsome before others, as vomit useth to be: and so it is the Lords taking-by the veil of their hypocrisy, and making them to fall from that respect and estimation amongst others, which possibly they hunted-after in this their external profession. 3. It may imply the Lords giving them up to break out into gross external ills, whereby they might be emptied of that vain ground of boasting which they had in their former formality. And this being a common plague that follows proud hypocrisy, and a thing that discovereth the rottenness and loathsomeness of such, it may well be understood here, seeing the scope is to threaten them with making them appear to be loathsome, although they did endeavour by all means to cover the same.
The second thing in the Body of the Epistle, is, the Lords threatning of them for this ill, by an expression suitable to the ill, vers. 16. So then, because thou art lukewarm, neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth: which is in sum this, seing then thou art in a luke-warm temper, which usually mens stomacks can more hardly keep than what is cold, or what is hot, but must spew out the same as a thing loathsome unto them; so will I in some singular and extraordinary manner evidence my loathing of this thy luke-warm hypocriticall temper. And this expression, to spew out, &c. seemeth to import these three, 1. That it shall be such a judgement as will be an evidence of the Lords loathing of them, and giving up with them without respect to their form. 2. It implyeth a making of them loathsome before others, as vomit useth to be: and so it is the Lords taking-by the vail of their hypocrisie, and making them to fall from that respect and estimation amongst others, which possibly they hunted-after in this their external profession. 3. It may imply the Lords giving them up to break out into grosse external ills, whereby they might be emptied of that vain ground of boasting which they had in their former formality. And this being a common plague that follows proud hypocrisie, and a thing that discovereth the rottennesse and loathsomnesse of such, it may well be understood here, seing the scope is to threaten them with making them appear to be loathsome, although they did endeavour by all means to cover the same.