A37035:977
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.
doth any think that this is not the mind of the Scripture, but our own? to wit, that a Bishop and Presbyter are one and the same, and that the one word, to wit, Bishop, denoteth the office; and the other, to wit, Presbyter, the age? for then they used to be well stricken in years; and Presbyter signifieth Elder. And he doth subjoin, in this place, the Scriptures formerly mentioned for confirming the same: which he doth not only cite; but solidly reasoneth the Conclusion from them, and having cited Acts 20. he hath these words, observe here diligently, how calling the Presbyters of one City, to wit, Ephesus, he doth afterward stile them Bishops. And also maketh use of that, Heb. 13.17. where submission and subjection is required to all that watch over souls, and, saith he, ibi aequaliter inter plures Ecclesiae cura dividitur. And lest it should be thought that he esteemed this difference, which afterward followed between Bishop and Presbyter, to be of Divine institution (though in part he did then acknowledge some difference, de facto) he doth close with this, sicuti ergo Presbyteri sciunt se ex Ecclesiae consuetudine ei qui sib• prepositus fuerit, esse subjectos: ita Episcopi noverint see magis consuetudine, quam dispositionis dominicae veritate, Presbyteris esse majores, that is, as Presbyters know themselves to be by the custom of the Church, subject to him that is set over them; so Bishops would know that they are above Presbyters, rather by custom, than by any verity of Divine disposition or appointment: and when he cometh again to the Text, he useth this transition, videamus igitur qualis Presbyter, five Episcopus, ordinandus sit.
doth any think that this is not the mind of the Scripture, but our own? to wit, that a Bishop and Presbyter are one and the same, and that the one word, to wit, Bishop, denoteth the office; and the other, to wit, Presbyter, the age? for then they used to be well stricken in years; and Presbyter signifieth Elder. And he doth subjoyn, in this place, the Scriptures formerly mentioned for confirming the same: which he doth not only cite; but solidly reasoneth the Conclusion from them, and having cited Acts 20. he hath these words, observe here diligently, how calling the Presbyters of one City, to wit, Ephesus, he doth afterward stile them Bishops. And also maketh use of that,