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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 third place, is, Tit. 1. by comparing, vers. 5. with vers. 7. where in the one, these words are, for this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou should ordain Elders (or Ministers) in every City. and in the 7. vers. after he hath given some directions concerning their qualification, he doth subjoin this as a reason enforcing the observation of the same, for a Bishop must be blameless, &c. and if both were not one, there could be no force in his so reasoning. The word also rendered Bishop, is that same which was in the former places.
The third place, is, Tit. 1. by comparing, vers. 5. with vers. 7. where in the one, these words are, for this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou should ordain Elders (or Ministers) in every City. and in the 7. vers. after he hath given some directions concerning their qualification, he doth subjoyn this as a reason enforcing the observation of the same, for a Bishop must be blamelesse, &c. and if both were not one, there could be no force in his so reasoning. The word also rendered Bishop, is that same which was in the former places.
The fourth place is, 1 Pet. 5.1.2. where Peter, exhorting the Ministers, or preaching ⟨p. 224⟩Elders, to watch carefully over the Flock and to feed the same, expresseth the nature of their Office to consist in this, in having, or taking, the oversight of the flock: which, in the Original, is the same word, that must be applied to Bishops, and might be rendered thus, feed the flock that is among you, overseeing the same as Bishops, not by constraint but willingly: for the word is, [Greek or Hebrew]. And there were no reason for him to require Ministers to play the Bishops (to speak so) by watching so over the Flocks as belong to them, if Bishops and Ministers in the language of the Holy Ghost were not one and the same. Neither will that exception which Bellarmin hath (de Clericis, lib. 1. cap. 15.) and sundry other Papists with him, to wit, that at that time these titles were not distinguished in the Church, but used in common, as they prove out of many of the Ancients But, on the contrary, this doth confirm our assertion: For, 1. If they were not distinguished then, who can afterward distinguish them? 2. Can there be so universal and frequent mentioning of them as one, except they be really and wholly so? 3. It appeareth by these Scriptures, where not only the titles are confounded as belonging to the same Officers, but the offices themselves are confounded, both in respect of the qualifications of the persons, and in respect of ordaining and installing of them in these offices, and also in respect of the duties that are required of both. It is worth the observing which the Jesuit Lorinus hath to this purpose,