C A P. 9. touching Antichrií}. 69t ming of the Lord yet tocome, one Spirituall, and that in an excel- lencie, at the callingofthe Jewes, another corporal), at the gene- ral! judgement. Now that corning fpokenof in. Matthew feemeth to be fpiritii- all, 'which yet is defcribed to be mod glorious and powerful' with a bodily fetting forth, both becatife it alai' be a moil evident refem- blance thereofand a ceitaine pledge as it were; as alto there (hall no change come afterwards between thefe two comming, that lhall make the bodily to appeare like a new one in refped of the for- mer. And we (hall ,ably perceive that the matter is fo as I fay, if we lhall confider that the Difciples did inquire in the beginning cf. the Chapter touching the end of the Temple, the ceminingof the Lord, and the end of the world. Out of all doubt they comprehended the reftoringof their nation under the comming of Chrift, and there- fore thinking that this comming of which he had put them in hope was at the refurredionof the Lord, they aske him a Fred), Lord, Wilt thou reflore'the Kingdom to, . Ifrael at this time, Acct. I. 6. BLi Chrift anfwering them, and handling things that were to come in a continued order,firft teacheth them about the deftrudion of Jert:- falem, and the fcatteringof the Jewifti people : and then he goeth on to informe them about the rest of the courfe of the matters; nei- ther doth he make mention of any restoring in any place, befo: e this glorious comming of his. Therefore either it muft be contai- nedin this apparition of his, or theremuft be none at all; which opinion had the Difciplesconcaved in theirmindes, and gathered it out of this anfwer of Chrift, certaineiy they would not have . nourished in their mindes any expectation of a Kingdome after- wards. Bcfides a tribulation goeth next before his. comming, for fo he faith,flrai ht sifter the tribulationof thole dares, the fun (hall be darkened, and-then!ball the fgneof the Son of man appeare, &e. But there fhall no fuchTribulation as this go immediatly before the cor- porali comming : For after the Jewes are called, andanew Church ismade, God will wipe away all teares from their eyes,.and there Oral' be no more death, nor mourning; nor crying, nor griefe, be- eaufe the things that went before are gone away, Beret. 21. 4. Wherefore that comming is not corporall. Perhaps a)fo thofe words have Tome force in them to-prove this, .where he faith, that thefire ofthe Sonne ofman(hall appeare, as if he woulddiflingui(h between this fpirituall tommingof his, and that other thatwas to foilow To
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