This commentary on Revelation provides what was, as Principal John MacLeod said, "in past days, the accepted Protestant view of that book." While James Durham's historicist reading of Revelation is no longer the standard view, that should not deter readers, for, as Spurgeon said, "it would not be easy to find a more sensible and instructive work than this old-fashioned exposition. We cannot accept its interpretations of the mysteries, but the mystery of the gospel fills it with sweet savour." The finest treasure in this commentary is not, however, Durham's exegetical work, helpful though it is. Contained in his commentary are independent treatises that are the purest of theological gold. These extended essays present Reformed thought at its best. As Richard A. Muller has said, this Work "offers significant access to seventeenth-century Reformed and Presbyterian thought.... Durham's work illustrates the relationship of Scripture with doctrine and piety and dogmatics."-Donald John MacLean, author of James Durham (1622-1658) and the Gospel Offer in Its Seventeenth-Century Context. English Puritanism and Scottish Presbyterianism in the seventeenth century had many bright and shining lights. Of these, James Durham (1622-1658) ranks alongside the greatest of his generation, for his theological depth, faithful preaching, and particularly for his moderate spirit at a time when such was in scarce supply. While he could have been a professor of theology in any university, Durham instead spent a brief ten-year ministry preaching and lecturing for the most part in the Inner-Kirk of Glasgow Cathedral. It was thought that he poured so much of himself into his studies for sermons and lectures that it brought about his early death at the age of thirty-six. His works were often reprinted and left an impression that lasted for centuries. Recently, all his sermons in two volumes and his lectures on the book of Job and on the Ten Commandments have been published in new critical editions. Continuing with his lectures, the publishers are pleased to offer now a new critical edition of James Durham's largest book, which, while it is his most theologically intense work, retains the same practical uses and applications of his sermons and other lectures. Volume 2, Lectures on Chapters 4-11, is the second of three volumes in this new edition. The theological digressions interspersed throughout cover such subjects as the nature and extent of the merit of Christ's death, Mede's Synchronisms, Christ's Intercession, the Comfortless Grounds laid down in Popery for Easing Afflicted Consciences, the Idolatry of the Church of Rome, Prophesying, the Waldenses, and the Pounding of True Churches by Reformation out of Corrupt Churches. The text has been collated with a 1653 manuscript which in places is significantly different from the published edition of 1658. An appendix contains almost 200 pages of the manuscript versions of the lectures. Volume 3 (forthcoming 2022, D.V.) will contain a new biography and bibliography covering Durham's life, works and manuscripts, as well as the indices for all three 9 volumes. Book jacket.