ſhould be of char nature as it ſhould make the Fews ( here called thi the Tribes of the Earth) ro mourn. They by the Angel, and ep Trumpet mentioned ver. 31. underſtanding the Miniſters of the whe Gotpcl, who after the Deſtruion of eruſalem ſhould £9 and Sor Preach tlie Goſpel over all che World, and fo gather in the Ejeg no 1 into the Goſpel-Church. Bur I cannot agree this Senſe, and 4; 1 Jt 15 ſaid, rhe moſt Interpreters expound theſe Words of the 1; his « Judgment. Whar is meant by the Sign of the S:n of Dan, all are cinu not ſo well agreed ; rwo of the Evangeliſts ſay only the 5:1 f 15 1C Man: Matthew mentions, firſt the Appearance of the $1zn f jj; than Son of Man, then the Son of Man himtelf;, probably ir fignigerh ſcien! ſome great Prodigy that ſhall be ſeen before char grear arid ters. ot M ble Day. Thofe things which incline me t© think thar the Dy Wor of Judzment, not the Deftruttion of Feruſalem, is that which or bt is ſpoken of in theſe Verſes, is, 1. Thar all the Phraſes ar: jich as the Scripture uſerh ro expreſs Chriſt's coming to the liſt 1:gs. 3 ment: His Coming in the Clouds of Heaven, Marttt. 26, 64, Rev, com: I.7. the Tribes of the Earth mourning, Rev. I. 7. His coming with | che Angels, and the ſound of a Trumpet, Marth. 25.31. Mar.8,z8, Ger.7. 5. * thi 1 Cor. 15.52. 1 Theſl. 4. 16, His fending his Anyels ro gatia OS the Elect, Matth. 13. 49. 2. The Trives of the Earth muwjr; BIVIT ſeems ro ſignifie more than the Twelve Tribes of 1/rael. 4: The pito | which Luke hath, Look up, and lift up your Heads, for the I); f 29 your Redemption draweth nigh; ſeemeth kardly applicable to the he : Deftru&tion of Jeruſalem , rather to the Redemptim of the 2:; _ mentioned Rom, 8. 23. For the Goſpel before this time «3; of mM: carried to the Gentiles ; Nor do I knuw, that that is any were Luk called Redemption. Thoſe things which have led ſome Learncd It ſhall Interpreters to expound ver. 259, 30, ZI. of the Deſiruttj-n which : Feruſalem, are, I conceive , thole Particles , Immediately jr fion, ww the Tribulation of thoſe days, ver. 29, and the Particle then, v.32, Saviour together with v. 34. where our Saviour faith, This Gener.:tim ſpall laft Fud; not paſs till all theſe things be fulfilled. Bur the Term Immec/.”:\y his Com! after rhe Tribuiarion of choſe Days, may fignifie nor only the De- V. 43, 4 ſtrution of Feruſzlem, but that and all the Cilamiries ct t!-f of great Days, that ſhould follow thar, ro the End of the W-r'd : 3:4 Gen. 6, 3 it 15 very uſual for Propherical Scriptures to ſpeak 1+ ci; | 3 come long after, as if they were preſently to c-me ri Paſs, {/2-7, Fl. 40 32.35. and the Day of Judgment is crdinariiy 1p; kev ct, 4s it be take ic were at hand, 1 Theſſ. 4. 15. 7a.«. 8. 1 70. 2. 18. but: 0 41 i dencte the certainty cf it, and ro keep us fr. m Sccuriry, ard the one to let us know that a thouſand Years in God's fight, are but as one Day, 2 Pet.3. 8. For uw. 34. we ſhull give the Sue Some 1 of it in its order. | —_ - 22 Now learn 2 parable o! the fig tree : When much in his branch is yer terider, and putteth torth {Cutts re of which know that ſymmer nigh: | Mom : 33 So likewiſe ye, when ye ſhall ſee all th: Frag things, know * thar it is near, ever; ar the doors. * thar Com 34 Verily I ſay unto you, This generation {all preceding, not paſs, till ail rheſe things be tulhlled. ps 42 * 25 * Heaven and earth {hall paſs away, but my * your lor, words {hall not paſs away. WW: 243 * Mark hatch the very ſame, chap. 13. 28, 29, 3o, 31. fo hath My * houſe h
Luke, chap. 21. 26, 30, 31, 32, 33- Oi; he ſaich, The Fig-Tice, and all Trees, when they now ſhn9t forth, ye ſee ard frow 0 ui own ſelves that Summer is nigh at hand : $9 ye, when ye ſee the? things come to paſs, know you that the Kingdom of Gd # nigh «t hand : Verily, &c. By this Similitude of the Fizge7ice ( 1.4 therefore by Luke a Parable ) our Saviour doth nor cnly dc, !! £9
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inform them, thar theſe things which he had rold chen;, 151d / Mark ſai be as certain Signs of the approaching of the Deſirudti o it 7. oy = - ſalem , and the coming of his Kingdom; as the Fig-Trecs, aud acning 1s
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other Trees putting forth of Leaves, is a fizn of the appr. acl110g Summer, as Cant. 2.13. But thar as the Froſfts, and Sn. i, 40 Cold of the Winter, doth nor hinder the Trees trom bring!lg
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torth Fruir in the Summer; ſo theſe Tribulations and Troubles —_ 4 ſhould be fo far from hindring and deſtroying Chriſt's Kingdom, per "CMarged thac they ſhould prepare the World for ir, and promove 1c; 19 _—
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az that they might know from theſe Tribulations in ue, char the Kingdom of Grace was at hand, and began; ſo from the fol lowing Tribulations upon the World, they might know that his Kingdom of Glory was alſo haftening. { Yerily I ſay #10 3 Tis Generation ſhall not paſs, till all theſe things be fulfilled. ] THI are ſeveral Notions Men have of that term, 7s Genera;
therefore an mn 2 tha " Our Saviou ls Diſciple vf 1uch a
waether we underſtand che Text of the Deſtruction of Feruſalem, er of his coming to his laſt Judgment; for, as fiſtorians cel! of
ſome by it underſtanding Markind; others, the Generation ©
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