Sec the Notes on Matth. 24. 23, 27. You will (faith our $a- v1our) have a great many falſe Chriſts, and falſe Prophets ariſe, and foolith credulous People will be deceived by them, and come and tell you, £9 yonder 15 the Meſſteh, or Lo he is in another place, but
But (ſaith he) make uſe of that time, for it will not hold! ,,s ſhe became a Pillar of Salt. long, there will come a time when you ſhall defire to ſee one of the.
believe them nor. $0 it is in Mark 13. 21. Follw them not, ſaith fube. The Son of Man ſhall have hjs Day, a Day when he will COMe 11 a glorious 3naance to Judge the Quick and the Dead ; but
it will come upon the world like Lightning, that ſuddenly ſhineth taken, and the other left.
irom one part of Heaven to another, ſo as no Man can foretel it, or obſerve the motion of it, Some do think that by the Day of the Son ef Man here, was mcant the ſpreading of his Goſpe!, but certainl,, :
ſpec the day of Judgment, and that dreadful ſepara be in that day betwixt the Sheep and the Goats.
32 Remember Lots wife. |
We have the Story, Gen. Ig. 26. She looked back from behind fim, Lot and his Family leaving S:4om, ſhe either looked back, as not believing what the Angel had ſaid, or as moved with the miſerable condition of the place, or as [oth to leave her Eſtate, and Goods ; however in diſobcdierce to the coin- mand of God, v. 17. Eſcape for thy Life, look not back, neither ſta thou in all the plain, eſcape to the Mountain ; leſt thou be conſumed. G turned her into a Pillar of Salt. It is a dreadtul caution againſt as- belief, diſobedience, worldly mindedneſs, contempt of Gods threatrings, and keeping a love for the forbidden Society of lewd and wicked Pet-
ſons,
33 Whoſoever ſhall ſeek. to fave his life, ſha!) loic it - and whoſoever ſhall loſe his life, ſhall preſerve It.
That is, whoſoever in diſobedience to my command ſhall uſe arts to preſerve his Life, ſhall loſe it, and whoſoever at my comman ſhall be ready to loſe it, ſhall preſerve it ; or if he loſeth his Be” he ſhall preſerve his Soul. See the Notes on Matth. 1c. 35: and 15. 25. Mark 8. 35.
34 *1I tell you, In that night there ſhall in one bed ; the one ſhall be taken, and the be left.
35 Two women ſhall be grinding together ; the one ſhall be taken, and the other left.
36 || Iwo men ſhall be in the field ;
See the Notes on Matth. 24. 40, 41.
it is a ſtrained ſenſe, nor was the ſpreading of that a thing ſo ſudden, , Ch1;'s day in the Preaching of the Goſpel, but that ſeemeth not t9
but more gradualiy, and obſervably accompliſhed. 25 But firſt *muſt he ſuffer many things, and be re-
5 31. & jetted of this generation-
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- thither will the eagles be gathered together. _ , 1c2rning the ſenſe of this Proverb;al Expreffion,and the various nr of it by Interpreters, Sce the Notes on Matth. 24. 28.
me Evangelist (where it 15 owug 00t 7]awe (as in Matthew) the
- — there properly {ſignifying a dead Body, the word here a living
m_ it ſeems to be applied to Chriſt's glorious coming to Fudg-
Body) where I ſhall be, who am to be tie Judge both of the Quick
me he Dead , thither ſhall all the World be gathered before me,but
_ ints eſpecially, who have Eagles Eyes, Senſes exerciſed to diſ-
*Y : hetwixt Good and Evil, to diſcern me as their Redeemer, and a ne Meſſiah, according to that, P/al. 50. 5,6. Gather my Saints
ana ris unto me, thoſe that have made a Covenant with me by Sacrifice.
_—_ the Heavens ſhall declare his Righteouſneſs : for God is Fudge him-
elf. CHAP. XVII.
brit exhorteth them to hold on in Prayer, by a ſimilitude of an importu-
_ Widow, 1——8. Telleth that God heareth and juſtifieth peni-
_ ſinners, by a ſimilitude of a Phariſee and a Publican, 9 I4
Little Children brought to Chriſt, 15 17. Heteacheththe Ruler
what he mu$Þ do to inherit eternal Life, 18 23. and that the rich
| are ſearcely ſaved, 24q—27. Promiſeth great recompence to thoſe that
\} forſake all and fellow him, 28—30. Foretelleth his ſuffering and
Reſurretion, 3I—34- and near Jericho, openeth the Eyes of a blind man, 3543» :
I A N D he ſpake a parable unto them, 70 thrs end,
ey * that men ought always to pray, and not to