Not forsaking] Here is propounded one means or help, whereby they might incite one another to good works. Romans 1:12. assembling] That is, the publike congregation of the faithfull, wherein the Word of God is taught, the Sacraments administred, and common prayer and thanksgiving made, unto which God hath promised a blessing. Matthew 18:20. See Psa. 27. 4. & 122. 1. manner] Either out of fear, or negligence, or pride, selfe-conceit and singularitie, or out of what causelesse reason else. exhort] Chap. 3. 13. Luke 19:17. Ephesians 5:11. Whereby understand not onely exhortation properly so called, but also admonition, consolation, reproof, example, and the like. It may be a metaphor taken from sharpning tools. Deuteronomy 6:7. Proverbs 27:17. and so much] Romans 13:11. see] That is, by plain and evident foretold tokens and signes of the times. See Matthew 24:33. day] Some understand it of the second or last coming of our Saviour Christ, or of his coming to judgement; whereof see 2 Peter 3:9, &c. but it is not improbable that here we are to understand it of the time of the utter destruction of Jerusalem, and the temple; at which time there should be so great affliction, that by reason thereof many should fall from the faith. See Marke 13. 19.