A37035:979
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.
This testimony is so clear that it doth put many of the Popish adversaries to a stand. Alfonsus Castrensis (as he is cited by Bellarmin, and Sixtus Senensis, in the places formerly mentioned) doth not stand to aver, that in this Jerome did err. And Bellarmin when he hath given one answer, to wit, that Jerome intended the change betwixt Bishops and Presbyters to have begun upon the occasion of the first Schism at Corinth, because of his alluding to these words, I am of Paul, I am of Apollo, &c. and finding him afterward to maintain the same Doctrine from the Epistles of Paul to the Philippians, and Titus, and also from the Epistles of Peter and John, which were written long after the said Schism; to weaken his testimony, he saith, observandum est sanctum Hieronim•m in illa sua se• tentia non adeo constantem vid•ri, &c. whereas he is most constant, seeing by mentioning these words, he doth not pitch on that particular Schism at Corinth; but, in allusion thereto, doth express the Schisms that followed thereafter. And we suppose there can be no •• f•inging of these so direct and express testimonies: yet we may observe what estimation these men have really of the most eminent Fathers (whom they so much otherwayes cry up) when they differ from them.
This testimony is so clear that it doth put many of the Popish adversaries to a stand. Alfonsus Castrensis (as he is cited by Bellarmin, and Sixtus Senensis, in the places formerly mentioned) doth not stand to averr, that in this Ierom did err. And Bellarmin when he hath given one answer, to wit, that Ierom intended the change betwixt Bishops and Presbyters to have begun upon the occasion of the first Schism at Corinth, because of his alluding to these words, I am of Paul, I am of Ap•llo, &c. and finding him afterward to maintain the same Doctrine from the Epistles of Paul to the Philippians, and Titus, and also from the Epistles of Peter and Iohn, which were written long after the said Schism; to weaken his testimony, he saith, observandum est sanctum Hieronim•m in illa sua se• tentia non adeo constantem vid•ri, &c. whereas he is most constant, seing by mentioning these words, he doth not pitch on that particular Schism at Corinth; but, in allusion thereto, doth expresse the Schisms that followed thereafter. And we suppose there can be no finging of these so direct and expresse testimonies: yet we may observe what estimation these men have really of the most eminent Fathers (whom they so much otherwayes cry up) when they differ from them.