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A37035	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.	Durham, James, 1622-1658.	1658 (1658)	Wing D2805; ESTC R216058	1,353,392	814

is sent he turns it over in a thanksgiving to Christ especially pitching on Him as looking to the benefits and priviledges they injoyed through Him as being in a speciall way purchased by Him and this thanksgiving or doxologie is all that he and all Saints can give Christ for all that He hath done for them unto him be glory and dominion Believers in looking on Christs purchase would be more in ascribing glory and dominion to Him not that they can add any new glory to Him or enlarge His Dominion but it is to acknowledge that to Him belongs glory and dominion as it 's afterwards Chap. 5. vers 12. Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and glory and blessing It 's Believers expression and hearty assent in approving Gods purpose and project in making Him Head over all the Church Vers. 7. He seems to come back where he left when he began his thanksgiving to speak of Jesus Christ under the last title of Prince of the Kings of the earth and that by way of pre-occupying an objection which carnall hearts might make and it is this Is He Prince of the Kings of the earth who was put to death and laid in the Grave Where Is He now if He be such a Prince He answereth Behold he cometh with clouds though many profane carnall hearts now do not acknowledge Him yet He shall one day be acknowledged He is now out of sight but it will not be long so He is making ready for His coming to Judgement and is coming Chap. 22.20 Surely I come quickly This coming in the present time implyeth two things 1. The seasonablnesse of His coming He misses no time He comes quickly 2. That even the short time He delayes He is making ready as it were for His coming He is leading Witnesses and fitting Processes and discovering the truth and falshood of every thing and every thing that may further His coming is going forward He is not idle in reference to His last coming to Judgement but is hasting all Secondly His coming to Judgement is set out in the majesty and statelinesse of it under an expression ordinary in the Prophets as much of this Book is He cometh with clouds So Psal. 97.2 Clouds and darknesse are round about him and Mat. 24.30 He shall come in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory So Psal. 18.10 11. To set out the statelinesse of the Judge that cometh thus backed with Coelestiall Majesty Thirdly His coming is set out by the palpablenesse and visiblenesse of it Every eye shall see him though most part of Atheists think not of his coming now yet when He shall come there shall not be a reasonable creature that ever had life on Earth whether Believer or unbeliever but they shall with their eyes see Him in that day Fourthly Among them that shall see Him these are added They also who peirced Him under which is comprehended His greatest Enemies and it takes in both those who had their hands hote in his bloud and killed him bodily and those who crucified and do crucifie Him spiritually as it 's said Chap. 11.8 He was crucified in spirituall Sodom they shall all in that day be called before His Barr and be forced to look on Him A fifth circumstance in His coming All kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him in the Originall all the Tribes of the earth it is a word borrowed from the Iews their manner of reckoning who counted their Kingdoms by Tribes The meaning is all the Kingdoms of the earth and those that laugh at Him now and think little of His coming when it is spoken of shall wail because of Him that is because of their slighting of Him and now seeing Him to be their Judge whom they slighted and contemned and though there be now a kindly mourning like that in Zach. 12.10 They shall look ●pon Him whom they have pierced and they shall mourn yet this being to be at the day of Judgement and spoken of the enemies that think nothing of Him now we take it to be an anxious howling of enemies when they shall see Christ come in the clouds to the great Judgement and all His Angels and Saints about Him as Matth. 24.30 The● shall all the Tribes of the earth mourn Sixtly There is a sixth circumstance added even so Amen which is Iohns setting to his seal to His coming and it s doubled as it is ordinary both in the Greek and Hebrew He wisheth He may come and believeth He will come that it may be as he hath said even as he closeth his Revelation Amen Even so come Lord Iesus And so it looketh to His stately way of coming and the effects it shall have in the world it being for His Glory to vindicate Himself from the rubs that His profane enemies put upon Him in the world he sayes Amen to that even so Amen Observe 1. Our Lord Jesus that was Crucified and thought little of shall be as high as ever He was low in the open view of all His enemies The time is coming and now is advancing fast forward when He shall take unto Him His Kingdom and be visibly seen by all the Kingdoms of the earth to be the Judge of quick and dead the Prince of the Kings of the earth This is one of the Articles of our Creed and we would make use of the Scripture to confirm it there is a time coming and it is not far off when He shall set His Throne in the Clouds and all eyes shall see Him Think ye this true that there is a time coming when we that are here and all others shall see Christ in His Humane Nature and also much of His Godhead as He shall be pleased to let out and we capable of Think on it and let it not go with a word but consider how ye will meet Him and stand before Him and when ye meet with difficulties or creature-comforts that would turn you aside Remember on this day and where will they all be when ye shall be arrested to stand before Him Eccles. 11.9 Obs. 2. Christs coming to Judgement is a special part of His statelinesse and a main part of the Universalnesse of His Kingly Office as Mediator when He shall come and sit as Judge and give sentence on godly and wicked and send away the one and welcome the other This will be one of His stateliest dayes when He shall vindicate Himself from profane men and bear Himself out to His people in His exceeding Glory Believers believe there is such a Day and let it quiet your hearts in the mean time of all these confusions Obs. 3. Our Lord Jesus His coming to Judgement will be a doleful coming to the most part of the world they also who peirced Him and all kinreds of the earth shall wail because of Him they shall cry to the hills Fall on us and to the mountains cover us

expression yet doth the thing enjoyed in heaven exceed the expression as far as the maker doth H●s work and that which is infinite exceedeth what is finite for expressions cannot be gotten adequat and suitable to the thing The second expression sheweth how this is made out I will be his God and he shall be my son This comprehendeth all yea it is added as an addition to all things ● It is more to be Gods son and to have Him our God than to enjoy all things beside to be His son and so His heirs and joynt-heirs with Christ Rom. 8.17 What is that or rather what is it not Here now is a portion who would covet let them covet this as the best thing one day the truth of this will appear what great blessednesse is here when once His wrath is but a little kindled Psal. 2. ult O set your hearts on this it is the short cut to possess and inherit all things Who in all the world ever reached to enjoy all the earth yet that is little amongst all things but a Believer inheriteth earth heaven God Christ glory peace his soul even all things for God is his and with Him all things 1 Cor. 3.22 23. and will He not give to Him all things Rom. 8.32 yea is He not Himself all things as is said so that in heaven and earth the soul can wish no more Psal. 73.25 See on vers 3. The condition is overcoming which implieth 1. a fight with a world of enemies and corruption 2. A serious fight and constant war as for life 3. A difficult fight Yet 4. a victory and overcoming of all these enemies before there can be an obtaining of all things This saith folks will not slip nor sleep into these excellent promises and though fighting be not the meritorious cause of these yet it is the way to them and an antecedent going before them necessarily though not the causa sine qua non to our justification yet it is so to our glorification This thirsting importeth engaging and covenanting Isa. 55.3 Overcoming a being answerable to our engagements Observe it then and wrestle so as ye may obtain seing so much dependeth on it and happy is he that overcometh He and every one of them enjoyeth all things and yet none of them enjoyeth anothers portion to one anothers prejudice But as men now enjoy the whole Sun and its light and wrongeth not others by it so then all shall enjoy God fully as to their capacities yet so as there is no want to others That infinit ocean of the Godhead being able to fill all the cups that come to it or are casten in ●t and being such that all may also swim in it when they are full and that Sun of righteousnesse being so clear as to shine on all and to make shining all the eyes that shall behold Him The qualifications to say so of these excluded on the other part are set down ver 8. and we conceive for these ends 1. To presse the receiving of the former offer from the ill of missing it which is the main scope 2. To shew that every one overcometh not and so cometh not there 3. To shew who overcometh not to wit these that ly under the practice of sinfull lusts as here By these sorts understand all other sinfull wretches lying in sin as if they were expressed the most abominable sorts whereof are indeed named yet not at all to exclude others By it we may see also that this must be heaven for these that get not these good promises are cast into the lake and second death O what great odds is there between the end of sin and holinesse what ever men now think it will one day yea in that day appear in its native colours These particular steps or sorts of sins to wit eight are mentioned to shew 1. That there is but one way to Glory but many sins whereby men passe to destruction 2. That by the setting down of these more particularly the happinesse of heaven and the qualifications of these who enter it may be the more conspicuous being put together The first sort of sinners that is excluded is the fearfull or coward opposite to the former fighter and overcomer It is not these who are feared to come short Heb. 4.1 nor these that fear to sin and desire to prevent it Heb. 11.7 nor such that fear that their faith be not good or that they be presuming as the woman Mark 5. and 33. But such as 1. dare act nothing for Christ are cowards and not valiant for Him though not directly against Him such as fearing them that can kill the body Matth 10. sway with every corrupt time as the beast Magog c. and cannot fight against them to any hazard but forsake Christ. 2. Such as are feared to fight against lusts and never appear against them in the field the weak heart Ezek. 16. is evil such a fear as the evil servant had Matth. 25.25 which maketh men lazie in holy duties and trading for Christ as if they were afraid of them the sluggard saith there is a lion in the way this is he who shifteth duty 3. Such as dare venture to suffer nothing for Christ as the Worthies did Heb. 11. The second sort is unbelievers not properly or only infidels much lesse these who are of a weak or little faith that is mixed with doubting and want peace but such as never received the free offer of Christs Grace indeed whatever their profession was that never did flee from the Covenant of Works to rest on Christ for salvation These are Ioh. 3.36 condemned already and this unbelief shall condemn as much as any breach of the Law in that day it will condem that ye believe not according to that command 1 Ioh. 3.23 as to be a murderer to be a witch or a warloch Quest. How differeth it from weak faith Answ. Weak faith hath a sure ground but a weak grip of it therefore it is feared for it But unbelief hath a weak ground but thinketh its grip sure Therefore it is not troubled 2. Weak faith hath much fear of unbelief Mark 9.24 and would be rid of it this unbelief is willingly and so wrestleth not against unbelief but against doubting and fear lest its security be marred 3. Weak faith is clear of its own need and Christs fulnesse but its weaknesse is in its peace or its gripping of Him or byding by Him and as to the fruits of faith it findeth these weak to say so but unbelief is clearer of its peace than of its need c. and whether we take unbelief as a failing on the right hand by presumption or on the left by despare both are unbelief and opposit to faith in Christ and are excluded here The third sort are abominable who by sins against nature have made themselves vile now these are reckoned with such were these in Sodom and these Rom. 1.26 c. The fourth sort

of Constantine was de vita Constant. lib. 2. cap. 18. Which remarkable judgements and confessions as also of many other great men their adherents as if they were speaking out the words contained in the Text ye will find in the forecited History and in Cent. Magd. de penis persecutorium The like remarkable judgements with such confessions we will not find at any time together in any story All which considerations being put together we conceive the reasons now more apparent why we applied the seal to this event and expounded it of it seing every thing jumps so in the time event and effects as hath been formerly hinted at We conceiue it not needfull to insist particularly in expounding and applying every expression as what the darkening of the Sun the removing of Islands and Mountains meaneth or how they differ among themselves This is certain that all the parts of that Idolatrous world are comprehended under this threatening and all sort of persecuters are to be included in this stroke that there are none so great or strong as may liberate themselves from it and that there is nothing so stately firm or remote which shall escape this change But this alteration shall be extended over all so as the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day If it be asked why this particular temporall judgement is set out under such high and universal terms as seemeth more agreeable to the day of Judgement Answ. Beside the custome of the Prophets and constant strain of this book we say 1. The ill was universall and the remedy was very broad and wonderfull which made the change be of the larger extent 2. It was a very great change from one extreme of suffering to another extreme of outward prosperity 3. It was a very sudden change few years interveened between the Churches low condition and her outward flourishing estate all which looketh like a new world Men could hardly have believed in so short time to have seen such things had it not been by the extraordinary power of God carried on as it were like the day of Judgement on the one side and like a new Creation on the other 4. This event may in some sort be a type and resemblance of the last Judgement and an evidence and pledge of it unto the Saints who were praying for that vengeance and therefore may be thought to be set forth under such expressions for confirming Gods praying people in the hope of that day We may from this scope take these observations 1. That though the great vengeance of God against persecuters be reserved till the last Judgement yet sometimes yea often God will remarkably punish them even before men as is clear in the application before mentioned and in the observations on the former seal We will scarcely find in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament or in story any eminent persecuter for the most part to go out of this world without some remarkable blot The sin of shedding the bloud of Gods people is spoken of in the case of Manasseh 2 Kings 24.4 as a sin which God would not pardon as to temporall afflictions though He pardon it to the penitent as to its eternall punishment If we can look through the actors in these ten persecutions this will be clear Nero being hated of men and persued by the Senate killed himself Domitian having drawn a Catologue of such as he was to kill in which was the name of his own wife and other friends they having found it put him to death Trajan was continually vexed with seditions and after fell into an extraordinary desease by which he was taken away Adrian being vexed with commotions in his life died with much anxiety as these verses expressed by him before his death do manifest Animula vagula blandula Hospes comesque corporis Quae nunc abibis in loco Pallidula rigida nudula Nec ut soles dabis jocos Maximinus being declared a● enemie by the Senate was killed in his tent Decius by the Goths in their first invasion of the Empire with his whole Armie was cut off Valerianus was overcome by the Persians and made use of by Sopor as a rest for his foot when he was to horse of Dioclesian we have heard already Thus for the most part were the persecuters dealt with by God and died ignominiously and oftentimes with terror and regvate Such a word had Severus at his death Omnia fui nihil mihi prodest such also was the end of that infamous enemie of Christians Iulian who in his height of contempt against Christ was deadly wounded in battell against the Persians and throwing his bloud in the Air died with that desperate expression in his mouth vicisti tandem Galilaea Valentius the Emperour being a great favourer of the Arrians and a great persecuter of the Orthodoxe as the Arrians did exceed the Heathens in cruelty was in battell against the Goths in Thraci● wounded and being carried to some house neer by it was set on fire by the enemie in which he miserably perished All which do shew Gods revengefull justice in persuing that sin Obl. 2. Wrath is exceeding terrible upon the stoutest men of the world What a terriblness● must there be in the great day when wrath and terror to speak so are at their perfection and what a howling and crying must that be when all the families of the earth and these that have pierced Him shall mourn before Him It were good to prevent this terror and to abstain from what provoketh it This will be found a certain truth that it is a fearfull thing to fall in the hands of the living God Obs. 3. The great distance that is between God and creatures and how far all of them are in His reverence He can at one instance shake both Heaven and Earth and turn the world upside down He can make the Kings to flee and the stoutest men in the world to cry out for fear He even He only is to be feared and who can stand when He is angry Psal. 76.7 It is a wonder poor men will live under a controversie with Him and be so little affrighted of His wrath 4. There is nothing maketh wrath more insufferable than that it is the wrath of the Lamb Christ v. 16. This is added as that which augmenteth their terror and maketh their case desperate when the Mediator is their enemie there is none in heaven nor earth that can befriend them The vengeance of despised Grace executed by the Mediator is the most dreadful vengeance The Lord save us from that Obs. 5. The sicklnesse of all creatures even of the most mighty and valiant men in the world What are they when God beginneth to reckon with them Stars fall from heaven great men and stout men hide themselves from the Lamb. It may learn us to cease from man whose breath is in his nostrils for wherein is he to be accounted of 6. See the insufferablnesse of