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James Durham (1622–1658) was a Scottish Covenanting minister who served the Inner Kirk in Glasgow and briefly as chaplain to King Charles II. Despite dying at thirty-five, he left lasting works including a celebrated commentary on the Song of Solomon and a treatise on church unity, A Treatise Concerning Scandal.

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Discussion On Apparelling
Besides these things that are more general in folks carriage, there is somewhat further in our clothing and diet, which is to be spoken to here, seeing in these we ought to be Christian, sober, grave, &c.; and in nothing do our lightness, vanity, (as we ordinarily use to call people vain from…

Some General Observations Concerning Preaching, and Especially Application
The following is one of the digressions which James Durham added into his Commentary upon the Book of Revelation. The text is from the Glasgow edition of 1788, pp. 275-282. It was originally published after the author's death in 1659. Having now gone through these epistles, we may see how wisely…