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and here is the stop and stay that God maketh to the creature, as who should say, as every thing hath a day wherein it was made, so every thing hath a day wherein it works, and the Lord hath limited a certain time to every action, that every creature is able to perform and which God requires of it, so that observe a mans day in general, is nothing but the time of his life• besides this, a day discovereth the passages of Gods providence and that special nick of opportunity that God hath laid out for every particular act; as God hath appointed a day wherein anguish and grief shall come upon us, and that is said to be the day of trouble, •all upon me in the day of trouble ⟨p. 159⟩and I will deliver you saith the Psalmist; there is a day of trial also in the third of Hebr. 8. harden not your hearts as in the day of trial or temptation in the Wilderness, and there is a day of visitation also, as we may see in this Chapter, verse 44. They shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee, and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another, because thou knewest not the day of thy visitation; Jerusalem was like a sick person, as indeed all sinners are sick men; now the Lord Jesus being the great Physician of the world, came to visit Jerusalem. When he sent his balm from Gilead, the glad tidings of grace and salvation, then the Lord did visit Jerusalem for the healing, comforting and saving of her, and this was Jerusalem day: So that then the day of a man is the time of his life, together with that parcel of time that God hath allotted him for every particular wor•e; and the day of a man which belongs to his visitation, is that particular opportunity wherein grace is offered, and salvation tendered unto him; as there is a day of trouble and a day of trial, so in the third place there is a day of salvation and a day of visitation, which is that particular season wherein God sends his faithful messengers to dispense the means of life and salvation unto a people. O that thou hadst known, &. as if Christ should have said, O ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, while the word of life lasteth, and the means of grace and salvation is continued unto you, this is your day, and this is the meaning of the word, every man hath his day ⟨p. 160⟩