OF A METONYMY OF THE ADJUNCT. Book L Wherefore the Lord reward thee Cood for this Day, which thou hajl doni unto me, (fo the Original) that is, t0r the Benefit anol Good I received from thee this Day, Mark xiii. '9· * 'fhofe Days jhall be fucb an AJfliflion, as ':Vas not from the Beginning, th~t is·, what {hall come to pafs in thole Da~s or in r!Jar Time. This denotes fuch prodigious Calamities, as if that Time were even Mifery itfelf. i Cor. iv. 3· But with meit is a very final/ 'I'hing, that I Jbould be judged ofyou, or of r Mans Day] ~ V7if0' a>9ew*""' "1''1";, that is, as we trannate it, Man's 'judgment, becaufe there are certain Days allotted fo'r 'judgments. Eph. v. 16. Redeeming the 'I'imt becaufe the Day are c':Jil, that is, very many Evils, Scandals, :tnd Sins, are perpetrated in thefe Times: The Books of Chrdmcles are called the Words of Dayst, that is, a Repetiti<ln, Narrattve, or Rehearfal of the Deeds and TranfaC\ions of thofe Times. '!'he DAYS of any One in Seriptore Phrafe is called that Time wherein any fignal ThiJlg fer Good or Evil, happens to him. For Good, as Hof i. 11. L uke xix. 42, 44· For Evil, as 'job xvlii. 20. Pjal. txxxvii. 6, 7· Eccl. v. 19. Jer. xvii. 16. with Jon, i. 3· a.n!liii. 10. and iv. 1,5,9, 10, 11. ]er;xiv. 7,20,2I,&c. Eztk.xxi. 19. andxxii.4. Obad. 12. Mitah vii 4· Pfal. xitxvii. 12, '3· With refpeCt to the EjjtB, Calamities and Misfortunes, are called the Days of the Lord, becaufe he juO:Iy punHhes Men for their Malignity and Wickednefs, 'job xxiv. 1. !fa. xiii. 6. Joel i. 15. and ii. 1, 2. Amos v. 20. Zeph. ii. 2. and i. 14, '15, 16, 18. Ry 'vVay of Eminency ""1 '~'X"'• the !aft Judgment, when God null reward every Man according to his Works, is calltd the Day 6j the Lord, 'joel ii. ;,z, Afh ii. 20. r Cor; i. 7· 1 'J'bejf. v. 2, &c. 'I'h~ Day of the Son of Man, Luke xvii. 24, 26. is expounded Verfe 30. to be the Day wherein the Son of Man fhall be revealed. That Appellation (by an Antanac!ajis) is taken otherwife, Verfe 22. '!'he Days will come, 'when ye}hall dejire to fee one of tbc'Days of the Sou of Mm>, and ye jhall not fee it. Brmtius upOJl the Place fays-" '!'he Senfe " is, becaule Things are now in Tranquil-ity, the Son of Man is defpifed and rejected_: " But fo great Calami<ies !hall come upon Jude'a, that Men fhall defire bur for one Day " to fee me, and enjoy my Help, but 01all not compafs their Defires." l ii)'Ticus fays, Te jhatl dejire to fee, that is, enjoy for d final! Seafait thofe good Things, and that good State you are i11 whiljl I a111 prefent with yo11, but, &c. See Verfe 23. and Matth. xxiv. 21, 23, &c. C!;rifl calls his Day the Seafon of his Coming into the Flefh, in the Fulnefs of 'l'imc, 'John viii. 56. Your Father Abraham: tejoiced to fee my Day, and he jaw it, and was glad, that ·is, he faw it by a peculiar Appearance, and believed; upon which D. Franzius fays, "None may doubt but a Profpea of the Fau and Perjo11 of Chrifl was jhewn and ex– l!ibited flo Abraham ilt bis Divine Vijion, viz. As be was born of a Virgin, come of Abra– ham's Seed, beginning with miraculous Miniflrations, exalted from his Pajjion to the right– Hand of the Jiather, and to come in the lajl JDay, and crown bim in andther Lfe.":j: '!'he DAYof the EJOhibition ofCbrifl in the Flefh i• called, Mal. iv. 5· '!'he great and terrible Day of the Lord, or as others render it, bonorablc and fearful, as Jacob adorned the Place where the heavenly Manifeftation was made with the f.me Epithet. Gen. xxviii. 17. llow dreadful is this Place? '!'his is 110 otber but the Houfe of God, and the Gate of He-aven. '!'his Day (viz. the Manifeftation of the Me.ffreh) is dreadful or terrible to Devils, be– caufe by his Power their Kingdom is eeftroyed, John xii. 3 1. 1 John iii. 8. As alfo ta the impious and rebellious Enemies of Cl\rift, See Nfal. iii. 2, and Matth. ii. 3· An HOUR, Mark xiv. ~5· He (that is, Chrijl) prayed; that if it were po.flib!e rht Hour might pafs from him, that is, that moft bitter Paffion, the Thoughts of which, at that Time troubkd and opprelfed him, Johnxii. 27. Father fave me from this Hour, that is, from the Anxiety agd Agony, wbtch I !hall !'ul!"er in the Time of my Paffion. Chrifl fpoke of the Time of his PaOion a 1d Dt-a;h, at the Thoughts of which (as a uue and real Man) he feemed to be in a great Trembling and Confternation. ~Dt illltrJr!l. Script. Orae. 47· '!'he
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