Matthew Poole and continuators on James 5:8

8 Be ye also patient , stablish your hearts , for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh .

Viz. in expectation of your Harvest, and the fruit of your Labours, as the Husband-Man is in looking for his.

Let your hearts be stedfast in Faith, and constant in Holiness, encouraging your selves to both by the coming of the Lord.

As before, his coming to the general Judgment, which is said to be nigh, because of the certainty of its coming, and the uncertainty of the time when it will come, and because it is continually drawing on, and the whole time of the Worlds duration till then, is but short in comparison of the Eternity following, and likewise because the particular Judgment of every Man is nigh at hand. See Phil. 4.5. Heb. 10.37.