Day of Salvation.] For the more full understanding of the Reason of the first word Day, we may enquire the nature and rise of it: In the beginning when the Lord made All, and amongst the rest the living Creatures, he furnished them with powers, and abilities for the performance of their work, he seated and set every one of them in his proper place, as upon a stage for the acting of his part: He set also bounds, and laid forth several periods and distances of time for each purpose: Now the Distinctions of time, i. e. the separation of Light and Darkness, made so many stops as it were in some or which there must be stayed: Thus in Creating every Particular; that is added, The Evening and the Morning were the first and second Day, &c. They had their Day of Creation, and their Day of Operation, so long as they continue that is their Day; for the Day and Night are the Distinction of all this Time here below, and serve as so many stops and stays, in which each thing is stinted for its being and Working: And hence it may be it is, There is no Day nor Night in Heaven, Rev. 10. 6. neither shall there be any more Time there; that is, Distinction or Measure of Time by Day or Night after the last Judgement, (for that must needs be the meaning of the Text) because in Heaven and Hell, the state of things and so their times are unchangeable: Hence to man His day is his life, […] long as he breaths in the […] and […] this Sun, that's the Time allotted to him to act his part in, to trade for his everlasting State and Condition: Hence again (to descend yet lower) there is a special period, ⟨p. 227⟩a stinted time, for every part of this life, and so many courses (as I may term them) and frames of occasions which belong to any; so many seasons and several limits of time hath he allotted to each particular: Thus the wise man, There is a time to gather, and a time to scatter, a time to plant, and a time to pluck up, Eccles. 3. 1. And these […] are called Days in Scripture: Thus there are Troubles, and Trials, Visitation, and Grace, which the Lord in the dispensation of his Providence allots to men, and there is a day for each of these, A day of trouble, Psal. 50. 15. A day of Trial, Heb. 3. 8. A day of Visitation, Luke 19. 42. and a day of Salvation in this sense, as here in the Text.
Day of Salvation.] For the more full understanding of the Reason of the first word Day, we may enquire the nature and rise of it: In the beginning when the Lord made All, and amongst the rest the living Creatures, he furnished them with powers, and abilities for the performance of their work, he seated and set every one of them in his proper place, as upon a stage for the acting of his part: He set also bounds, and laid forth several periods and distances of time for each purpose: Now the Distinctions of time, i. e. the separation of Light and Darkness, made so many stops as it were in some or which there must be stayed: Thus in Creating every Particular; that is added, The Evening and the Morning were the first and second Day, &c. They had their Day of Creation, and their Day of Operation, so long as they continue that is their Day; for the Day and Night are the Distinction of all this Time here below, and serve as so many stops and stayes, in which each thing is stinted for its being and VVorking: And hence it may be it is, There is no Day nor Night in Heaven, Rev. 10. 6. neither shall there be any more Time there; that is, Distinction or Measure of Time by Day or Night after the last Judgement, (for that must needs be the meaning of the Text) because in Heaven and Hell, the state of things and so their times are unchangable: Hence to man His day is his life, 〈…〉 long as he breaths in the 〈…〉 and 〈…〉 this Sun, thats the Time allotted to him to act his part in, to trade for his everlasting State and Condition: Hence again (to descend yet lower) there is a special period, ⟨p. 227⟩a stinted time, for every part of this life, and so many courses (as I may term them) and srames of occasions which belong to any; so many seasons and several limits of time hath he allotted to each particular: Thus the wise man, There is a time to gather, and a time to scatter, a time to plant, and a time to pluck up, Eccles. 3. 1. And these 〈…〉 are called Days in Scripture: Thus there are Troubles, and Tryals, Visitation, and Grace, which the Lord in the dispensation of his Providence allots to men, and there is a day for each of these, A day of trouble, Psal. 50. 15. A day of Tryal, Heb. 3. 8. A day of Visitation,
