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I suppose that it is possible that the lack of confessional eschatological statements could have been due to a fear of error. However, I think that perhaps a more feasible reason is that eschatological discussions were not common at the time the Confessions were written. As you well know, the main reason the Confessions came to be was due to assaults upon the doctrines held by the churches and it seemed good to them that they put into writing what they believed the Scriptures to teach on various subjects. Some wrote a confession to distinguish themselves from others (we won't mention any group in particular here, although many of us know who they were/are ).

Doctrine has a "history" which most generally is the result of conflict. For example, the doctrine of justification wasn't nearly as definitively stated until the Protestant Reformation. The sovereignty of God in salvation hadn't been nearly as developed until the Remonstrants in 1617 issued their gravamen against the Church which resulted in the "Canons of Dordtrect" (1618-19). And from my readings, eschatology wasn't put on the proverbial hot-seat until John Nelson Darby came along and later C.I. Scofield with their infamous Dispensationalism.

Just my