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c1400 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Lamb. 25) (1850) Dan. vii. 1 Gloss. This visioun..perteynen to the secounde comynge of Crist, that is to the general doom.

1502 Higden's Polycronycon (new ed.) iv. sig. c v^v He ordeyned the feest of Lenton afore Eester, & Aduent, & the Emerynge dayes to be fasted of all crysten people, in to the myrrour of the fyrste & seconde comynge of oure lorde Ihesu.

1587 J. Harmar tr. T. de Bèze Serm. xiii. 170 God is not yet all in all, nor shal be vntil the second comming.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xxxviii. 248 [Christ] did make that Sacrifice, and Oblation of himself, at his first coming, which God was pleased to require, for the Salvation at his second coming, of such as in the mean time should repent, and beleeve in him.

1785 Gentleman's Mag. 55 392 Those Millennarians, believing the certainty of Christ's second coming, and his Millennarian Kingdom, lived not the holy life enjoined them.

1838 H. H. Milman tr. F. Guizot in E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xv. 299 They say, that Jesus Christ, after having proclaimed the ruin of Jerusalem and of the Temple, speaks of his second coming, and the signs which were to precede it.

1850 E. C. Gaskell Heart John Middleton in Househ. Words 28 Dec. 330/2 I longed and yearned for the second coming of Christ, of which Nelly had told me. The world seemed cruel, and hard.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 235/1 With the view of directing the thoughts of Christians to the first coming of Christ as Saviour, and to his second coming as Judge, special lessons are prescribed for the four Sundays in Advent.

1997 Skeptical Inquirer Jan. 32/2 The American Baptist preacher William Miller, who proclaimed that the Second Coming would occur between March 21, 1843, and March 21, 1844.