Now this being deferred longer than was expected, the scoffers or mockers take upon them to charge the Lord with slackness in the fulfilment of his promise:Īs if he had either changed his purpose, or had prolonged it beyond the appointed time, or was unmindful of his promise, and would never fulfil it whereas he is in one mind, and none can turn him, nor will he delay the fulfilment of his promise beyond the set time he has fixed a day for his coming, in which he will judge the world in righteousness, and he will keep it: he is not dilatory, The Syriac version reads in the plural, "his promises", any of his promises though the words seem rather to regard the particular promise of Christ's coming, either to take vengeance on the Jewish nation, of which coming there was a promise made, and is often referred to by Christ, and his apostles see ( Mark 9:1 ) ( John 21:22 ) ( Hebrews 10:37 ) and it now being upwards of thirty years since it was given out, some men began to charge God with slackness and dilatoriness whereas the true reason of the delay of it was, that there might be time for the gathering in of his elect among them by his angels, or apostles and ministers, sent into the several parts of Judea, that so none of them might perish, but be brought to faith and repentance and thus as the time of Christ's coming was prolonged more than was thought it would, so when the days of afflictions were come, they were shortened also for these elect's sake: or this promise regards the second coming of Christ, to judge the quick and dead at the last day, of which the former was a prelude, presage, and pledge that Christ would come again, and appear a second time in person, was promised by himself, and often spoken of by his apostles and many of the primitive Christians thought it would be very soon, and which might be occasioned by the hints that were given of his coming in the other sense. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise
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