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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.
It may be wondered how and with what confidence they could entertain such thoughts. This is the third thing proposed, to be cleared in the words, and may be gathered from two expressions, 1. Thou sayest I am rich, &c. which words do not so much express the language of their mouths, as the inward language and confidence of the heart, and do import, not only their thinking of such a thing to be true, but their persuasion thereof, and confidence therein, even to a kind of audacity and impudency, so as nothing can put them from it, and is like these words, Jer. 2.23. How canst thou say I am not polluted, &c. and vers. 35. yet thou sayest, because I am innocent, &c. which places hold forth the impudency of formal hypocrites that will stick to their own justification, even contrary to the clearest applications of the Word of God against them: and therefore, Luk. 13.26, &c. some are brought-in pleading, as it were, with Christ in the day of Judgement their own Justification, and, though their will be no such pleading in that day, yet it showeth that many hypocrites may live and die, without being brangled in this their vain confidence, until Christs final sentence do it, which is the scope of that place. The second word, is, and knoweth not that thou art wretched, &c. Some might think how could such poor persons boast so of their riches? this word showeth that they were not gross dissemblers speaking what they thought not; but that really they knew no better, and so they are (to say so) native, subtle hypocrites, as subtle hypocrisy is distinct from gross dissembling. Which doth show, 1. That hypocrites may really be blind and ignorant of their own unsoundness, and indeed think it otherwise than it is. 2. That this their ignorance doth not excuse them and extenuate their guilt; but on the contrary, it is both a sin in it self, and an aggravation of other sins to them; and for that end, it is made use of here.
It may be wondered how and with what confidence they could entertain such thoughts. This is the third thing proposed, to be cleared in the words, and may be gathered from two expressions, 1. Thou sayest I am rich, &c. which words do not so much expresse the language of their mouths, as the inward language and confidence of the heart, and do import, not only their thinking of such a thing to be true, but their perswasion thereof, and confidence therein, even to a kind of audacity and impudency, so as nothing can put them from it, and is like these words,