328 izT1413* Ejeratna. C H A p + 4n Expo ition upon the firff V u.15. S. Thereme ;,and much toyles he himfelfe to find out a fo- ltìtion , reieCting in truth better expofitions of others then hitn {élfe brings any. Our later Interpreters thinke, the Apoftle being vn-! certaine of the time of Ch rifts comming, would cxprefie' here in his pracîicc our duty, that is, to fland in continu all expeetarion o, Chrills fecond comming to Iudgemenri. and fo ro o: der curry day, as if it were the lafl day of the world. A duty it is needful!, too watch continually. But that the Apoftle fhould vpon thisground performe ir, be- caufe he knew not whether it might fall into his lifetime, is vnlikely, by that cauear giuen, 2 Thef z. VnletTe perhaps wee may thinke, that as yet it was not reuealcd to the Apofile, that the Lords comming Ihould be longer deferred. This once is a truth, The Lord did not at once reaeale all things to his feruants the Pro- phets ; but, as the Author to the Hebirewet fpeakes,. aehvçoeTQ -, by pareils, as youwould fay, acquainted them with his fecreas. lnílance we haue in e.Ahraham: that heir Mould haue a feed of blef ng,was firfl reuealed ; whether F by generation, oradeptiou, it feemes was not till after ope- ned. When it is farther made knowne that it fhould be of his body bygenera:iom; yet whether by Sarah; or femeo- ther, feernes not yet to haue beene reuealed, which was in lik lihood the o.ccaiiion of their q errew' in ,agar; 'Sa perbapr in this particular; That there Mould bee afecond corrhning of Chrifl;to imrdg,emenr,and that this comming 'boatel be fudd,en, in a time when it was leaf& expceled, was reuealed when Paul wrote this Epifile: Thar it fhould not be till the r departing from the faith, the reetealitrs of Antichrifi, and hie ccrfaption, by the breath of the Lords, mewl', it may be was an after- rcue'ation. And this is a fialution of the doubt not improbable. Another expofztion there is extant in S. Hie,-ame,vn- der the name of Dioderus, hawfoeucr reiec ed by Hie- rove, yet more probable then any hirmèïe brings. The fiimme
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