Feed GS the laft Day, v<t it is molt prota. they WH be gicater uefore the Day of Judgiaent, than at any tins before ; and tor f22rf#! Sigh-,, and great Signs from Heater, tiey ordina r1!y-g0 betore fome great Judgment of God unzi placcs: 2nd therefore the Obſervation of them by the teatinen, (.s we earn by £11y and others) ſeems but to be 4 piece of XN. il R Rea and Ciriit giving theſe things as Signs of the wn, roms hays firſt of Jeruſalem, then of the Wor'd, will wike winkin Cir; [t14ns Þ.hold them with a Religious Fear, to) nor ro hd re <Ke to expound them particularly, or Fiophoiy upon then, Cer-
tzizly we ought to look upon thoin, a3 prominin, $571 great Worx of God, and utually of Jud me:
9 Bur * take heed to your ſelves : {>> they hall d& 41
liver you up to councils, and in the Iynagoonucy ye ſhall 1 Lu be beaten ; and ye ſhall be brought boiore vilers ang of Kings for my ſake, for a teſtimony againſt then;
This, fo far as concerneth thoſe to whom Clicit? (4, bh ly bea Sign of the Deſtru4ijn of Fernſalem ; but fo fir as wt 090.) cth others, it is alſo a Sign of the End of the Worid + It is ( | Sign he gives them : The Perſecution oi tlie Mi = and the Saints of God, for the Preachin;; aud Urol. or 1 Gotpel. See the Notes on Matth. 24. 5.
10 M And the zoſpel muſt firſt he put! ed 254, all nations. 1 am prone to think that cur Lord pives this
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S1gn of the Deſtru#;on of Feruſalem, but of the End 1 too wor fl, | Is! and the latter principally , for before the FEollruchon ot jrrw * | ' [?m, (which was in lefs than forty years attec Cle i/y's Dy : Goſpel was not Preached to af Natimns, otherwite than
tgmtics very many. And 1 dothink that if rlcvs fat have the , Goſpel preached to thein before the iy 07 Julgnent, at | |
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. —» WOT - 1 2 ' ther manner than either it was poſſible it {hold bu proactued 1 TREE! them within forty years after the Dear of Chritt, or than wn] Rf # | places have had it preached amongſt them to this Ezv. For thu Fr |
the Holy Scriptures, and Eccletiaftic.l Hiſtorians, g1ve us a fonic: thing large Account of the Golpel being Preached in Friar, Agr! "tf |
and 1n Africa yet we have little account from any ef them, v1 \ ; its being Preached in America, 1 am n-t wholly 1snorant of T2008. i what thoſe Writers tcll us of Thomas the Apoſtle tits Preachin: tc 1 Þs the Indzans, and of Trumentizs and his Colleague 3 but they ary ve "3 : F-4 ry few Preachers that any Storics give an account of, puny to ty < Indians, whither I believe the Golpel niuſt go butore that Cliritt : 4.19 comes to Judgment, oi F |
17 * But when they ſhall lead yor , and deliver you * tu 1: f up, take no thought before-hand what ye ſhall ſpeak, *!- 5 < neither do ye premeditate: but whatſoever {hall be gi- -*'* ! 0 j
ven you in that hour, that ſpeak ye :; for it is not ye that ſpeak, but the Holy Ghoſt.
See the Notes on Matth. 10. 19, 20. By tuke no Th#ght, he
(3a z6ainſt the temple, Peter, and James, and John, and by | Andrew, asked him privately :
" W::: 4 * Tellus, When ſhall theſe things be, and what _ b:'- ſz] be the ſign when all theſe things ſhall be ful- ff) filed.
aj: Mattizew puts two Things more into the Queſtion, IWh.:t ſhall ' it be the (gn of thy Coming, and of the End of the World ? The beft of Tre Men have 2 great Curtofity to know futurities, Things that ſhall th hercafter come to pais. All the other part of this *Chapter is!
ſpent by our Saviour 1n an Anſwer to theſe three Queſtions, ( according to St. Matthew, ) or this one Queſtion, according to! Hick and Lube. Some hive attempted curtioutly to diſtinguiſh vxrwixt the Signs intended by our Saviour, as relating to each! ferio): But certainly thoſe Interpreters do judge beſt, that thick our Saviour intended to let them know, That the Deſtru- on of Jeruſalem ſhould be a Type of the DeſiruRtion of the World at the laſt Day ; and that the ſame things ſhould go be-| for> the one, and be Signs of 1t, that ſhould go before the other.; and whoſo readcth the Hiſtory of Joſephizvs, of what happened before the Defiru@tion of Jers/r/0mm, and atter this time, will find! that there Were few or none of thele Signs, that are here men-!
means, take no anxious Thoughts to difquiet your ielves,
12 Now the * brother ſhall betray the brother to .
: SS NMtC. 9.6; | 1b death,and the father the ſon: and children ſhall rite 1s, 21,15 bs up againſt their parents, and ſhall cauſe them to be 2- | Ws put to death. of 4
13 And ye ſhall be hatred of all men for my names Lat ſake : but he that ſhall endure unto the end, the lame * 5ir. xe v4 fi ſhall be ſaved. 2%, moult nl
ly , ; = pt | 4 This is hut an Amplification of the fifth Sign, g.vin vs vr, 0, |. ſth; of Oy 8; 1h A
viz. A furious Perſecution, eminently made goud it the ſ2wwtjh ol!
tied, butcame to paſs, before the dreadful Deſtruction of that | Perſecution, before the Deftruttion of Jeruſalom. in the UV. oy | fo famous Place 3 yet we muſt doubflefs look for many, if not} Perſecution, for Three hundred years after Chriſt, In the #cp, . Wane it” al the fame things to come to paſs betore the general Deftructi- Perſecution at this Day, See the Notes on M:tth, 2.1. 15, , {9 ik 630f the Wor'd in the laſt Day. F. h 4. , 14 But when ye ſhall ſee the abomination ot Ceio- [+ 5 Ard Jeſus anſwering them, began to ſay, * Take| jarion, + ſnoken of by Daniel the prophet, ſtanding *2u2 |
b "ced leſt any man deceive you. 6 For many ſhall come in my name, fa Ciriſ; : and ſhall deceive many.
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_ Sec theNotes on Matth. 24. 4, 8+» This 18 the firft: Sign, fol- n.cdvctore the Deſtruttion of Jeruſa/em in part, and which hath vecn iuihli1og ever fince; and probably before the Day of ſudp- ment, the number of ſuch Impoſtoys will increaſe.
mn 7 *Andwhen ye ſhall hear of wars, and rumours of !1-wars, be ye not troubled : for fc :hings muſt needs be, but the end ſhall not be yer.
$8 Fornation ſhall riſe againſt nation, and kingdom vi. *gainſt kingdom : and there ſhall be earthquakes in di- 1 ers Places, and there ſhall be famines, and || troubles : hi, Lielſe are the beginnings of ſorrows-
_Fatthew adds Peſtilencies. Lube ſaith, . Peſtilencies, and fearful 91yhv's, and great Signs from Heaven, See the Notes on Matth, 24. 0,7, 8, Here are two or three more Signs put together,
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