Daniel

Esau had the venison, but Jacob got the blessing: while the wicked have their meat sauced with God's wrath (Psalm 78:30-31), believers have their comforts seasoned with a blessing. It was a secret blessing from God made Daniel's pulse nourish him more, and make him look fairer,…

A blessing put sweetness into the least morsel of bread; it is like sugar in wine (Psalm 132:15): I will bless her provision. Daniel and the three children ate pulse (which was a coarse fare) yet they looked fairer than those who did eat of the king's meat (Daniel 1:15). From wh…

The Lord gave Joseph favor in the eyes of Potiphar, (Genesis 39:21). God brought Daniel in favor and tender love with the Prince of the Eunuchs, (Daniel 1:9). The Lord made his people to be pitied of all those that carried them captives, (Psalm 106:46).

2. God does nothing in the election of Peter, more than of Judas; nor can grace and mercy have place in the choosing of the one, rather than the other; but as free will is foreseen to play the game ill, or well, so go the eternal decrees of election and reprobation, and there ca…

If a physician for his fee will be faithful, although he be a stranger; much more will he be so if he be father to the patient, (so as his own life and comfort are bound up in that of the child's) or when much of his estate and comings in are from the life of the party to whom h…

He can make a little means go far. As he blessed the pulse to the captive children (Daniel 1:15), and made the widow's barrel of meal, and cruse of oil to hold out (1 Kings 17:14), and his filling and feeding five thousand with a few barley loaves, and a few fishes (Matthew 14:2…

If this be your case, learn to abhor yourself for it, and to be ashamed: for all is nothing, till we come to a constant and unchangeable resolution: so that we come to set it down with ourselves as an inviolable law: this is a duty, and I will do it, whatever it cost me; this is…

Persecution propagates the Church: the scattering of the Apostles up and down, was like scattering of seed, it did tend much to the spreading of the Gospel, Acts 8:1.4. 6. If the Lord of Hosts be on our side, he can alter the scene and turn the ballance of affairs when he please…

While we are thinking and deliberating what to do, we lie open to temptations; the Devil has some hope of us: but when the bent of our hearts is set another way, and the Devil sees we are firmly resolved, and have holy purposes, he is discouraged. This was that which made Daniel…

Indeed further, of the alterations of the weather in general; but all this makes nothing to ratify divination of particular events in things contingent, which are to fall out in the state of kingdoms, families, and persons: for they are not causes, but signs, and that of some ge…

3 Uprightness and righteousness in the discharge of that high place whereunto he was advanced. For the first, the Holy Ghost bears ample testimony thereunto (Daniel 1:17, 20): As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom, and Daniel ha…

2. Christ is a King in reference to his enemies, in subduing and conquering them: he pulls down their pride, befools their policy, restrains their malice. That stone cut out of the mountains without hands, which struck the image (Daniel 2:34), was an emblem, says Augustine, of C…

First, his infinite intelligence. He knows the most profound, abstruse secrets (Daniel 2:28). He knows the thoughts, which are the most intricate, subtle things (Amos 4:13).

It is counted great policy to be on the strongest side; if we belong to the King of Heaven we are sure to be on the strongest side: The King of Glory can with ease destroy his adversaries; he can pull down their pride, befool their policy, restrain their malice. That stone cut o…

If a man has a dream with any strong impression, he is apt to give heed to it and think there is something in it. What made Nebuchadnezzar think there must be something in his dream (Daniel 2 and 4) — when he had actually forgotten what it was — was that it made him afraid and h…

And Zechariah 12.3, there is a prophecy of the Church in the new Testament: the Lord says, He will make Jerusalem (that is his Church) an heavy stone; for all people that lift it up shall be torn, though all the people of the earth be gathered against it: where the Prophet sets…

These words contain a reason of all the former petitions: whereby we are moved to crave things needful at God's hand. Yours is] Earthly kings have kingdom, power, and glory (Daniel 2:37). Yet not from themselves, but from God, whose vicegerents they are on earth.

3. Take heed of letting love degenerate into compliance, there is the bond of the Spirit, and there is an unequal yoke, there are wards of love, and the chain of Antichristian interests, and you must be careful to make distinction (Isaiah 54:15). "They shall gather together, but…

The whole church comes together in one place [cleaving together in faith and love] so (Acts 4:32). If they differ, namely, in opinion, or in their affection, and should join in this Covenant, breaches, factions, rents, and schisms, would be like to be the issue of such joining:…

These words contain a reason of all the former petitions: whereby we are moved to crave things needful at God's hand. [Your is] Earthly kings have kingdom power, and glory (Daniel 2:37), yet not from themselves, but from God, whose vice-gerents they are on earth. Therefore, to m…

'Tis reasonable to suppose, that his dominion should be far the largest, and his conquests vastly the greatest and most extensive. And thus the Scriptures represent the matter, in Nebuchadnezzar's vision, and the prophet's interpretation (Daniel 2). There the four great monarchi…

From hence cometh it, that we fear not in greatest dangers (2 Kings 6:16; Psalm 3:7; Psalm 27:3); that in the time of affliction, we are patient (Proverbs 20:22; Hebrews 10:33); without all murmuring to hold our peace (Psalm 39:10); receiving them as from a father (Job 1:21; Psa…

Therefore that power that Satan has is not given but permitted; not absolute but limited. It is a lie, that Satan can give these things at pleasure, see these Scriptures, (Psalm 24:1) The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof; the world and they that dwell therein, (Dani…

Witchcraft: The word [illegible] properly signifies poisoning: but here it is fitly translated witchcraft: because all poisoning is comprehended under murder which follows. And the Magicians of Egypt (Exodus 7) are called [illegible] in the translation of the Seventy: as also th…

In steadfastness.] The word Emeth signifies all steadfastness whatever; and truth. Here the Prophet means that the kingdom of Christ shall be firm and stable, as Daniel also has witnessed (Daniel 2:44 and 7:14). Likewise the Evangelist Luke: Of his kingdom (says he) shall be non…

He now comes to a specialty then, and promises that Cyrus shall come with haste, however it seem impossible in the eyes of flesh and blood. Where I have translated the word Aait, thought, almost all the interpreters translate Bird, which is the true signification of the word: bu…

Such is the cause and object of the changes which is assigned by David, "He pours contempt upon princes," (Psalm 107:39;) and by Daniel, "He changes the times and the seasons: he removes kings, and sets up kings," (Daniel 2:21.) We see, indeed, how the princes of the world grow…

So Isaiah 9:7, of the increase of his government there shall be no end, upon the throne of David and his Kingdom, to order it, and to establish it, with judgement and justice, from henceforth even for ever. His Kingdom shall not be destroyed, but stand for ever (Daniel 2:24); it…

1. His Godhead, which is the most eminent nature of Christ's person, sustaining the other, and furnishing it for its offices; Thus, (1 Corinthians 11:3) as the head of the woman is the man, in respect of his dignity; so the head of Christ is God, as the Godhead dwells in him bod…

John the Baptist preached, that the kingdom of heaven was at hand; and so did Christ, and his disciples after him; referring to something that the Jews in those days expected, and very much talked of, which they called by that name. They seem to have taken their expectation and…

These mighty empires were suffered thus to overthrow the world, and might destroy one another: and though their power was so great, yet they could not uphold themselves, but fell one after another, and came to nothing, even the last of them, that was the strongest, and had swall…

Doubtless one nation shall be enlightened and converted after another, one false religion and false way of worship exploded after another. By the representation in Daniel 2:3-4, the stone cut out of the mountains without hands gradually grows. So Christ teaches us, that the king…

Fourthly, no communion, no society in which there is so much profit and benefit, as to be amongst these. As Abigail said to David, The Lord shall binde up the soul of my Lord in the bundle of life: to be amongst Gods people, is to be bound up in the bundle of life; much good we…

Two things are eminent in gold; splendor or glory, and duration; this is that which the spouse speaks of the head of Christ: his head, is his government, authority, and kingdom; hence it is said a crown of pure gold was on his head (Psalm 21:3), and his head is here said to be g…

The exercise of the outward senses is from God, who gives the seeing eye, the hearing ear; much more the right exercise of the internal faculties; an understanding heart is much more from the Lord: (Proverbs 2:6) The Lord gives wisdom, out of his mouth comes knowledge and unders…

When the scepter was gone from Judah (Genesis 49:10), when the crown was possessed by Herod a tributary and foreigner, during the Roman Monarchy, which at length Christ should utterly destroy. Daniel 2:35. Nebuchadnezzar had a vision of an image of four different metals, the hea…

To redeem the time was a proverbial phrase of old, signifying, to keep out of trouble as long as one can. Thus the Chaldean soothsayers were told in their distress (Daniel 2:8), I know that you would gain the time. This was the counsel of the Apostle: by a prudent, holy, careful…

Endless are the delusions that Satan fastens upon souls, for want of this self-search. It is necessary therefore, that we try our state, lest we take the shadow for the substance, and embrace a cloud instead of Juno (Daniel 2:32-33). 4. Satan will try us at one time or other; he…

But this is not to be found on earth; we must go to heaven for it. Third, there is an evangelical purity, when grace is mingled with some sin — like gold in the ore, like air in the twilight, like wine with a dash in it, like fine cloth with a coarse edge, like Nebuchadnezzar's…

That it is to be numbered among the rest expressed in the prohibition, may further appear by other places of Scripture, as in Isaiah 47:13-14, where the Lord threatens the same judgments against diviners by the stars, that he does against soothsayers and magicians. Again, in Dan…

In the Old Testament we read of Balaam (Numbers 23), who though he be called a Prophet, because he was so reputed of men, yet indeed he was a notorious Witch, both by profession and practice, and would have shown his cunning in that kind upon the Israelites, if God had not [reco…

4. In true confession a man does particularize sin. A wicked man acknowledgs he is a sinner in general; he confesss sin by whole-sale; his confession of sin is much like Nebuchadnezzars dream, (Daniel 2:3). I have dream'd a dream; but he could not tell what it was, verse 5.

There is a dying principle in all; the frame and contexture of their body is earthly, and tends to a dissolution. Nebuchadnezzar's image, though it had a head of gold, yet feet of clay, Daniel 2. 23. Take the strongest man, let him be Samson or Hercules, of whom we may say as th…

Wicked men will tell you that their sins do make a noyse within them, but they can tell you nothing distinctly, and nothing particularly, but only go at randome. Wicked men in confessing sin are like Nebuchadnezzar, Dan. 2.He dreamt something but he could not tell what it was: W…

Answer 1. It does not appear, that [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩] in the Septuagint always signifies a limited duration; nor is it used in this sense in all the instances, which Dr. C. produces to prove, that it always means a limited duration: as (Psalm 145:13) Your kingdom is an…

For the first, the things that cannot be shaken (v. 24) are called a kingdom that cannot be removed (v. 28), a kingdom subject to none of those shakings and alterations, which other dominions have been tossed to and fro with all. Daniel calls it, a not giving of the kingdom to a…

It was not a universal mourning of all the Jews in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, but of Shushan the Palace, and yet they prevailed with God for the safety of the whole land (Esther 4:16-17), by which was cut asunder all the snares of the Jews, so as before they in the cou…

The feet thereof were smitten, and so all broken together. Such is likely to be the end of all monstrous Christians (Daniel 2:32). But is it possible that any one Christian should have all sanctifying graces?

Did not Saint James exhort to this, when he says, Is any sick among you? Let him call for the Elders of the Church, and let them pray for him (Philippians, verse 22; 2 Kings 19:4; Esther 4:16; Daniel 2:18; Genesis 20:7; Job 42:8; James 5:14). §. 145. Of motives to desire others'…

And Antiochus Epiphanes is condemned by the Holy Ghost, because he took upon him to alter times (Daniel 7:25). Besides that, Daniel says, that it is God alone that changes times and seasons (Daniel 2:21). Now if it be proper to God, as to create, so to determine and dispose of t…

Thus the King is honoured, because in his majesty and state, he carries a resemblance of the power and glory of God: so as that which is said of God, may be also spoken of him. Hence it was, that Daniel said to Nebuchadnezzar: O King, you are a King of Kings, and why? for the Go…

Q. 3. Wherein chiefly consists the outward providence of God towards his Church? A. In three things, first, in (a) causing all things to work together for their good; secondly, in (b) ruling and disposing of kingdoms, nations, and persons, for their benefit; thirdly, (c) in aven…

Q. 3. Wherein chiefly consists the outward providence of God towards his Church? A. In three things, first, in (a) causing all things to work together for their good, secondly, in (b) ruling and disposing of kingdoms, nations, and persons, for their benefit; thirdly, (c) in aven…

It is a great honor we do to a man when we trust him with all we have, we put our lives and estates into his hand; a sign we have a good opinion of him. The three children glorified God by believing, The God whom we serve is able to deliver us, and will deliver us (Daniel 3:17).…

Ay, but the fear of God will make you avoid those sins which can neither be heard nor seen by men. 2. Where the fear of God is, it destroys the fear of man: The three children feared God, therefore they feared not the king's wrath (Daniel 3:16). The greater noise drowns the less…

The intent of making images and pictures, is to worship them. No sooner was Nebuchadnezzar's golden image set up, but all the people fell down and worshipped it (Daniel 3:7). Therefore God forbids the prostrating ourselves before an idol: so then the thing prohibited in this Com…

The three children were humble; they gave the king his title of honor; but they were not sordidly timorous. Daniel 3:18: "Be it known to you, O King, we will not serve your gods." Though they showed reverence to the king's person, yet no reverence to the image he set up.

How can that be, when they oft take away their lives? (1.) They conquer by not complying with them: The three children would not fall down to the golden image (Daniel 3:18), they would rather burn than bow; here they were conquerors. He who complies with another's lust is a capt…

(1 Thessalonians 1:10). Jesus has delivered us from wrath to come. Nebuchadnezzar's fiery furnace was a type of God's wrath, and that furnace did not singe the garments of the three children, nor was the smell of fire upon them (Daniel 3:27). Jesus Christ went into the furnace o…

Whether it be right to hearken to you more than to God, judge you. God says, you shall not make a graven image; King Nebuchadnezzar set up a golden image to be worshipped; but the three children (or rather champions) resolve God's will shall take place, and they would obey him,…

And the midwives of Egypt are commended of the Holy Ghost, (Exodus 1.17.) for saving the young children alive, against the King's commandment. And the three men of the Jews, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, are renowned with all posterity, for disobeying the commandment of Nebuc…

When Daniel was cast into the Lions' den, God was there with him, and shut their mouths, Daniel 6:22. When the three children were cast into the fiery furnace, God was with them, and took away the natural force from the fire: Daniel 3:27. When the Israelites were to pass through…

But, Daniel even then believed in the Lord, and put all his trust in God; and for this cause, the Lord by his angel stopped the mouths of the Lions, and (as it were) sealed up their paws, that they could not hurt him. The fifth effect, in quenching the violence of the fire, must…

We say usually, that water and fire be unmerciful creatures; and therefore the natural man fears them both: but the Israelites' faith, makes them not to fear the water; but it makes them bold, even to pass through the sea. The like we may see for fire, in the 3 children, Daniel…

If we frequent devised forms of worship in prayer or praise, we shall offend our consciences; (even so many of us as are Saints enlightened, to behold the beauty of his spiritual worship, performed, or offered in his spiritual house, the congregation of the faithful united;) now…

I answer, some alleged were before Moses' Law, as that of Abraham and Jacob's commanding his family to put away their idols (Genesis 35:2). And the injunctions in the Old Testament were built upon reasons of immutable equity, as God's glory, the danger of infection, etc., and so…

Others, as was said above, trifle by saying that Haran died before his father as a punishment, because he was a maker of idols. Everyone can see that the lying Jews seized upon the story of Nebuchadnezzar casting the three holy men into the furnace of fire for refusing to worshi…

When Hagar and Ishmael were in the wilderness, and the bottle spent, then God comforted her from heaven (Genesis 21:17). When the three children were in the fiery furnace, then God sent an Angel to be their deliverer (Daniel 3:28). But now in wantonness to desire extraordinary p…

Command deliverances for Jacob; angels, devils, men, the hearts of the greatest men are all at his command. He has might and strength (Daniel 3:17). Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us, and what then can hinder?

He that would be wise, must deny his own wisdom, and become a fool (1 Corinthians 3:18). The three children would not consult, touching the worshipping of the image, but said: "Be it known to you, O king, that we will not worship your gods" (Daniel 3). When the judge gave Cypria…

For God's name may in no wise be abused, and trampled underfoot: and therefore blasphemers piercing God are to be cut off. This is the very law of Nature, as appears by Nebuchadnezzar, who gave in commandment to his people, that whoever blasphemed the name of the true God, shoul…

Section 13. The Apostle also tells us that as God is a sovereign Lawgiver in his commands, so he is able to kill and keep alive — that is, his commanding authority is accompanied with power whereby he is able absolutely and eternally to reward the obedient and to return to the d…

Yet so it has often been seen, where Gods interest has been immediately concerned in the danger and evil of the event. The Sea divided it self in its own Channel, and made a wall of water, on each side, to give Gods distressed Israel a safe passage, and that not in a calm, but w…

The Word assures us, that the best expedient for a man to settle his own interest in the consciences and affections of men, is to direct his ways, so as to please the Lord, Proverbs 16:7 and does not Providence confirm it? This the three Jews found by experience, Daniel 3. 28, 2…

When the Egyptian magicians see real miracles, beyond all their juggling pretences, they cry out this is the finger of God (Exodus 8:19). Profane Nebuchadnezzar beholding the deliverance of those three worthies, from the fiery furnace, he owns them for the servants of the most h…

For, to forsake the true God of heaven, is to fall into all such evils upon the face of the earth, as men either destitute of divine grace may commit, or unprotected from above, endure. In zeal to the glory of God Babylon has excelled Zion (Daniel 3:29). We want that Decree of N…

But 1. Free goodness, and not natural necessity, made the world; and that same freedom intervenes, in continuing, being and acting in creatures, which act by nature. Fire casts heat, the Sun light and influences, the Sea ebbs and flows by nature; yet there must also be a free ne…

We are created anew to be his holy frame and workmanship, and then hardly can we but consent; nor bought we his love-influences. Yes, nor is the Lord obliged to give the Sun-influences for shining and moving, nor the fire for casting out heat: he has interposed his sovereignty i…

There is no creature but may be hindered: for in the best of the creatures, to wit, in the Angels, there is an essence, and an executive power by which they work: Even as you see it in the fire, there is the substance of fire, and the quality of heat by which it works: now where…

As when the leper could go to Christ, and say, Lord, you can make me clean if you will, then the Lord did so. It was a great matter for those three children in Daniel 3 to be able to say, when the fire was ready prepared, and the king was wroth, and there was no resistance, yet…

For the first, when our cross comes, we must be willing to take it up freely, and readily to submit unto it. It was the honor of the three children in Daniel, that they yielded their bodies to those fiery flames they were cast into, Dan. 3:28 Let us not seek to put off suffering…

If I pray, I shall be accused, might Daniel think, but yet pray I must, come of it what will; so if I worship God in my prayer, they will mock me, I shall pass for a fool — no matter for that, it must be done, I must call on God and strive to walk with him. This puts the mind at…

Was not Christ with the Three Children? did not he go with them into the fire? Daniel 3:25. I see four men in the fire, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.

Such as revere the divine Majesty dare not go near the borders of Sin. Those who went near the Fiery Furnace, though they did not go into it, were burned, Daniel 3:22. A wise Christian should in all his transactions put those three questions of Bernard to himself; Whether is thi…

And so in the story of Joseph, we shall not finde it expresly said that God was with him, till he was in prison, and there you shall find these very words. Not to name all passages to this purpose, in Dan. 3. Those three children, as they are called, they never had the familiar…

Now not to speak of Cain, who seems to me, to have laid the foundation of that cruelty, which was afterward inserted into the churches' orthodoxies, by the name of Haereticidium, we find the four famous empires of the world to have drunk in this persuasion to the utmost, of supp…

Theodoret, Book 4, Chapter 30. 2. If summoned before them in a judiciary way, as the three children were before Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 3:13): Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and they brought these men before the king:…

1. Committing ourselves to his power is trust and dependence. Our God is able to deliver us from the fiery furnace (Daniel 3:17; Romans 4:21), being fully persuaded that what he had promised, he was able also to perform. Now this is abundantly seen in his judgments of old (Isaia…

In your greatest wants he is all-sufficient, and can supply you (Genesis 17:1). I am the Almighty God, walk before me, and be perfect. In your greatest dangers he can deliver you (Daniel 3:17). Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he wi…

We dare not offend God to please men; the good Levites are commended (2 Chronicles 11:14). So it was pride in Nebuchadnezzar to command all men to bow before his image (Daniel 3:15-16). God's prerogative must not be encroached upon, there is a superior sovereign: partly in vexin…

Indeed, David himself was guilty of this great sin, and therefore it is spoken of as his only sin (1 Kings 15:5). Some have made laws to command men to sin, as if they should sin cum privilegio and with authority, as (Daniel 3:10) and chapters 6, 7, 8, 9. And how many masters co…

As precious a thing as life is, a godly man would not willingly sin to save his life. Though the mouth of a fiery furnace (heated sevenfold) were open to devour the three children (as we use to call them) yet they would not sin (Daniel 3:18), and Daniel would rather venture into…

But now affliction, though not chosen for itself, yet for an end (a good end and effect of it) may be chosen, indeed, and rather than sin; it may be chosen, though no other good thing should follow than this, that one did no evil. Instances we have of this, as the three young Wo…

Sometimes the people of God are brought to such straits by temptation, that either they must sin much to avoid suffering, or suffer much to avoid sinning: their own carnal advantage and outward safety lies through sin, but the glory of God lies through suffering. Such a dilemma…

So Peter's advice here following the text: save yourselves from this crooked generation. Indeed, were [illegible] the loss of a man's life, [illegible] also comes within this necessity; there is no necessity to hinder to part with this life, there is a necessity he should part w…

It is dangerous to go near a hornets' nest. The men who went near the furnace were burned (Daniel 3:22). Second reason: because the appearance of evil may eclipse his good name.

Courage is a Christian's armor of proof, it steels and animates him. The three children (or rather the three champions) were of brave heroic spirits; they do not say to the king we ought not serve your gods, but we will not (Daniel 3:18). Neither Nebuchadnezzar's music, nor his…

Grace teaches us to mortify our sins, to love our enemies, to prefer the glory of Christ before our own lives. Thus the three children by the power of grace marched in the face of death: neither the sound of the music could allure them nor the heat of the furnace affright them (…

And to put it past question, Ezra 10:7, 8 relates, this decree of the King was accordingly put in execution by Ezra and the princes and elders, proclamations being made throughout Judah and Jerusalem, to all the children of the captivity that they should gather themselves togeth…

Ezra 2:63, Nehemiah 7:65, some Priests being put from the Priesthood and forbidden by the Governor to eat of the most holy things till there stood up a Priest with Urim and with Thummim, that is for want of Urim and Thummim by which God might be consulted with and his mind known…

The ox and the donkey being more knowing to their owner, and the swallow and the crane being more discerning of their times, than men are. 2. They so keep their line, that there is more self-denial in their actings, than in man's way: as if fire were not fire, and nature in it d…

For it is above the power of natural generation, that the substance of one creature should be really turned into the substance of another, as the substance of a rod into the substance of a serpent. Of the like kind, were the standing of the sun in the firmament without moving in…

He sits amongst those Judges though they acknowledge him not; He rules over them at his pleasure; He knows the cause of the Oppressed, and justifies them whenever the world condemns; and can deliver them when he pleass. With the Thoughts hereof did those holy Souls support thems…

Superbos sequitur ultor à Tergo Deus — the proud man is the mark which God shoots at, and he never misses the mark. He threw proud Lucifer out of Heaven; he thrust proud Nebuchadnezzar out of his throne, and turned him to grass (Daniel 4:29). O then be like Christ in humility.

Who shall dispute with God? Who shall ask him a reason of his doings (Daniel 4:35)? He does according to his will in the army of Heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth, and none can stay his hand, or say to him, what do you do?

There are two nations in the womb. Original sin is like that tree (Daniel 4:23): though the branches of it were hewn down, and the main body of it, yet the stumps and root of the tree were left. Though the Spirit is still weakening and hewing down sin in the godly, yet the stump…

And this change of life has two things in it. 1. The terminus a quo, a breaking off sin (Daniel 4:27): "Break off your sin by righteousness." And this breaking off sin must have three qualifications.

7. Aggravation of the loss of this kingdom: it will be an eternal irreparable loss; heaven once lost can never be recovered. Worldly losses may be made up again; if a man lose his health he may have it repaired by physic, if a man be driven out of his kingdom he may be restored…

This must teach us to pray earnestly, in our daily prayers, for the good estate of this kingdom, wherein we live; and of that worthy Prince and Queen, under whose government, we have been so long, and so liberally blessed. For, the welfare and prosperity, the certainty and secur…

In Abraham's family, his bond-men and servants were circumcised, and made members of the Church of GOD. And in Moses' days Jethro Moses' father in Law, a Priest of Midian, obtained this at Gods hands, to be joined unto Gods Church: and so was Ruth the Moabite, Ruth 1.16: and Naa…

Again, his power and authority are also intended herein. The most High rules over all (Daniel 4:17). God over all in power and authority disposing of all things, is the most High God.

Again some others think, that men's souls after this life do pass from one man's body to another: and Herod may seem to have been of this opinion: for when news was brought him of Christ, he said, that John the Baptist being beheaded was risen again, thinking that the soul of Jo…

Hence compared to wolves for their cruelty, dogs for their filthiness; to horses and mules for the rage of lust; to a wild ass's colt for wildness and dullness of understanding (see Jeremiah 5:8; Ezekiel 20:23; Job 11:12; Revelation 22:15). You may see here, to what sin will bri…

Objection 5. (Daniel 4:27) Daniel gives this counsel to Nebuchadnezzar, redeem your sins by justice and your iniquities by alms deeds. Behold (say they) alms deeds are made a means to satisfy for man's iniquities.

Before I come particularly to explain the providence of God, I shall lay down some propositions as the foundations of this doctrine. 1. God has an indisputable and peculiar right to the government of the world: None ever questioned God's right, no nor his act, but those that wer…

The angels were called by the ancients egregori (Watchers). They seized their occasion from Daniel 4:10, where an "ir," that is, a "watcher," is said to have looked down from heaven. The common manuscripts of the Greek text retain the Hebrew word; but a certain manuscript reads…

Of this sort, are those, that thinke themselues to be wolues, and practise wolvish behavior. Thus we read, Dan. 4. 30. that Nebuchad-nezzar lived, behaued himselfe, and fed as a beast. Some say, that he loss his soul, and had the soul of a beast.

Their eyes and hearts are not but for covetousness (Jeremiah 22:17). For the glory of their own name (Daniel 4:30). For the continuance of their houses to many generations (Psalm 49:11).

Now such a hope as Arminians allow to Heathen and Indians, to Reprobates, who believe that Christ died for all and every one, and such as perish eternally, we gladly leave to themselves; and if our doctrine of particular redemption furnishes ground of despair as opposed to this…

Thus far in the general we may be confident of. 3. To preserve his people from many dangers and casualties, which fall not within the foresight of man, God employs the watchers, as they are called in the book of Daniel (Daniel 4:13, 17), for he is tender of his people, and does…

Therefore again I admonish you, that such sentences as the adversaries do allege out of the Scriptures concerning works and rewards thereof, must be spiritually expounded. As if they allege this sentence out of (Daniel 4): Redeem your sins by alms deeds, you must not here expoun…

He that steals, according to the quality of his theft, must restore either twofold, or fourfold (Exodus 22:7); he that maims a man must pay for his healing, and for his resting, that is, for the loss of his labor (Exodus 21:19). Daniel says to Nebuchadnezzar, "O King, break off…

Matth. 5. 16. Here we see what glorying is Vnlawfull; namely, when men ascribe to themselues either that which they have not, or more then they have, or as proceeding from themselues, their wisdome, strength, industrie, in sacrificing to their own netts, and burning incense to t…

And yet this Work in it self is of the same kind with what God sometimes employs holy Angels about, because it is the Execution of his Righteous Judgments. So it was a watcher and an Holy One that in such a Case smote Nebuchadnezzar with a sudden madness and frenzy, Dan. 4. 13,…

They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. It's a sign that prosperity is not sanctified tomen, when it swells the heart with pride and self-conceitedness, Daniel 4. 29, 30. At the end of twelve moneths he walked in the Palace of the kingdom of Babylo…

There you have all the armor of Senacheribs mighty host with the rest of their spoyles, hung up to shew (2 Chronicles 32:21). There you have the glory and throne and dominion of Nebuchadnezzar himselfe being turned into a Beast (Daniel 4:33). There you shall have the carcasses o…

So that when Job says, I was not in safety, he means, I did not think myself safe, or beyond the reach of danger, I was not taken up in outward contentments: I did not look upon my possessions as perpetuities, or upon my house, as that which should endure forever, or my dwelling…

I was made wiser th[]n the ancient, by keeping your cōmandement: first Dauid reformed himself, and then hee became exceeding wise. As it is said of Manasses, that when hee repented and humbled himselfe, he knew that the Lord was God: and after Nabuchadnezzer was humbled, his un…

The third and great argument, is, for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night: Very shame might prevail with the wife, when the Husband uses such an argument as this: It's even as if a husband, standing long without doors in a tempestuous night, shou…

REFLECTION. HOw often have I passed by such barren trees, with a more barren heart? as little thinking such a tree to be the emblem of my self, as Nebuchadnezz[•]r did, when he saw that tree in a dream which represented himself, and shadowed forth to him his ensuing misery, Dan.…

He has a hand in the bird-nests building (Psalm 104:17, 18). 4. The actings of the Lord are in great things, as the translation of kingdoms, dominions, and thrones (Daniel 4:32; Jeremiah 27:5, 6, 7). In all the rises and fallings of Princes, the stars of whatever magnitude (Isai…

And Jeremiah who mourned so, for sin as he desired his head were waters, and his eyes a fountain of tears, that he might both be humbled for the judgements and the sins of the people (Jeremiah 9:1, 2), has said much in the book of the Lamentations for justifying God (Lamentation…

It degrades a man from the honor of his Creation, and equalizeth him to the beast that perishes. Wine is said to take away the heart, Hosea 4:11. (i. e.) the wisdom and ingenuity of a man, and so brutifies him; as Nebuchadnezzar, who lost the heart of a man, and had the heart of…

1. God has in general instituted civil government for the good of human society, and still there is good in it, tyranny is better than anarchy. 2. It is by his providence that men are advanced to places of authority (Psalm 75:6-7; Daniel 4:25; John 19:11). Third, it is his comma…

This was the means to bury them in perpetual oblivion. Nebuchadnezzar, when he rebuilt the city (Daniel 4:30): Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom, by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty? How does God disappoint him and tur…

Proud men are full of musings. Is not this great Babylon that I have built, for the house of the kingdom, by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty (Daniel 4:30)? Proud men please themselves with the suppositions of applause, and the echoes of praise in their min…

David resolves so to do, I will delight, or solace or recreate myself in your statutes; this should be his refreshment after business. David had many things to delight in, the splendor and magnificence of his kingdom, as Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 4:30): Is not this great Babylon th…

But the saints have a reverence for their Father's anger. Search the Scriptures, and you shall find that the godly are more troubled at God's judgments, than the wicked themselves who are to feel them; (Daniel 4:19) Daniel was astonished for an hour, and his thoughts troubled hi…

God who is arbitrary in his gifts, is not arbitrary in his judgments: there is a rule of commerce between him and his creatures stated, and set forth, and allowed and appointed by him, and consented to by us: the directive and counseling part is the rule of our obedience, and th…

O you fools, when will you be wise? Brutish and foolish are synonymous and parallel expressions, as was hinted before; a heart void of understanding, is the heart of a beast, as is clear (Daniel 4:16, 34-36). 2 Sinful man is like the beast in sensuality, as if he were only belly…

3 Times when sinners have confessed their sin. In a day of affliction, when the plagues of God have taken hold of them, and the judgments of God have been heavy upon them: The story of Pharaoh is too long to rehearse, and that of Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 4). Oh how did God stoop t…

Thus the woman of Samaria when our Savior came home to the quick and met with the secrets of her heart, she then fell from her taunting and slighting of our Savior to admiring of him — Come, says she, behold the man that told me all that ever I did, is not he the Christ (John 4:…

There you have the spoil of Pharaoh, and all his host, gathered on the shore of the Red Sea, and dedicated in this house (Exodus 15). There you have the robes of Nebuchadnezzar here referred when himself was turned into a beast (Daniel 4). There you have the imperial ornaments o…

As to the first, the less of the creature and self, and the more of God in the end, so much the more denied and spiritual is the doer, when purely for God [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩] we do (1 Corinthians 10:13; Colossians 3:23), we are sick for God, and in health for God, and wake…

God made the sea and all the rivers. There be three pronouns in the mouth of another proud monarch, (Daniel 4:30) And the king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom, by the might of my power and the honor of my majesty? So soon…

And often men judge themselves mortified, because they are dead, it may be to riches, but alive to ambition and desire of honor. As Nebuchadnezzar spared no charges for his gods, his pleasure, but he was alive to honor (Daniel 4:30): Is not this great Babylon, that I have built…

Answer: It is true, but that was done by the mighty power of God, neither can it be proved that any creature, angel, or other, was ever able to do the like. But it is further said, that king Nebuchadnezzar was turned into a beast, and did eat grass with the beasts of the field (…

If then 'all' here is to be understood of all men universally, one of these two things must of necessity follow: either that God fails of his purpose and intention, or else that all men universally shall be saved. He does whatsoever he pleases in heaven and earth (Psalm 115), an…

14. That a man may be rightly called his own Redeemer and savior, which he endeavours to prove from Daniel 4. And some of his church affirms that the saints may be called the Redeemers of others, though improperly.

The Lords voice cries to the City, Hear ye the Rod, and who has appointed it. This is the language of the Rod, that we should humble our selves under Gods mighty hand, and break off our iniquities by righteousness, (Daniel 4:27). Manassehs affliction ushered in Repentance, 2 (Ch…

A proud man is the Herald of his own good deeds, he blazes his own fame, and therein is his vice, to paint his own virtue. 5. Are not they proud who take the glory due to God, to themselves, Daniel 4:30. Is not this great Babylon I have built?

All is wasted effort unless a divorce is made from your sins. Well therefore might Daniel say to Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 4:27): 'Break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquity by showing mercy to the poor.' Daniel does not exhort Nebuchadnezzar only to prayer — though th…

Now this is a mistake: mortification does not extend so farre, but it extends to an abolition of the dominion of sin; not of the being of sin: before we dye we shall never be absolutely rid of the being of sin; sin will be in the heart. As the tree in Daniel 4:14. He cryed aloud…

Use 1. Here is thunder and lightning to the wicked; God is eternal, therefore the torments of the wicked are eternal. God lives forever, and as long as God lives, he will be punishing the damned — this, one would think, should be as that handwriting on the wall (Daniel 5:5), it…

Moses, a man learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians (Acts 7:22) — there was the wisdom of the serpent: and the meekest man alive (Numbers 12:3): Now the man Moses was very meek above all the men upon the face of the earth — there was the innocency of the dove. Daniel was an…

The Lord struck Jehoram in his bowels with an incurable disease. God can raise an army against a man out of his own bowels: He can set one humor of the body against another, the heat to dry up the moisture, and the moisture to drown the heat; the Lord needs not go far for instru…

God registers the speeches of his people that they may not be lost. 7. A righteous man is of a more excellent spirit (Daniel 5:12). An excellent spirit was found in Daniel.

Thus was the foolish boasting of the Assyrian (Isaiah 10:13-14): By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, for I am prudent, for I have removed the bounds of the people, etc. Belshazzar's offence also (Daniel 5:23): you have lifted up yourself against the Lo…

And therefore undoubtedly, when it is said, The sixth Angel poured out his Vial on the River Euphrates, and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the East might be prepared; by the River Euphrates is meant something some way appertaining to this mystical B…

Quest. Some may demand whether this defeat was so cruel as Isaiah here describes it, for histories witness otherwise: and Daniel himself (who was there present) says, that the city was taken only (Daniel 5:30). This is the cause why some expositors have been driven to refer ever…

So as they shall not know in the morning, what shall befall them before night. Now it appears sufficiently out of (Daniel 5:30) how certainly these things came to pass. Vers. 12. Stand now among your enchanters, and in the multitude of your soothsayers (with whom you have wearie…

He had before asserted, that he had of one blood made all nations (v. 26), that is, all men of one, whom he first created; to which he adds, that we may know that he has not so left us, to stand by ourselves on that first foundation, or that we have any power or ability being ma…

So David expresses it (Psalm 66:9), "You hold my soul in life"; though the soul continue, life may not continue, there is the soul, when there is not life, life is that which is the union of soul and body, "You hold my soul in life," that is, you hold soul and body together. So…

3. The next particular I would mention is, the destruction of Babylon, and the overthrow of the Chaldean empire by Cyrus. The destruction of Babylon was in that night in which Belshazzar the king, and the city in general, was drowned in a drunken festival, which they kept to the…

REFLECTIONS. THis Meditation may be to me what the hand-writing upon the wall was to that profane Prince,Dan. 5. 5, 6. and a like effect it should have upon me; for if all the actions of this life be seed sown for the next, Lord, what a crop, what a dreadful harvest am I like to…

I say, to observe what the Lord says to us in all these, this is a part of our walking with him. Lastly, so consider what he does, and what the mercies are, which he shows to you: what corrections, what judgments, what turnings of his providence, what he does to those that are n…

And another prophet found it so, whose serious word of the necessity, of precept upon precept was turned into an idle song (as Grotius understands it, Isaiah 28:13): the word of the Lord was to them precept upon precept — very likely it was done by the drunkards of Ephraim, spok…

Consid. 1. An Heathen will do more for a dung-hil-Deity, than you, that callest your self a Christian, will do for the true God, that made Heaven and Earth, Daniel 5:4. They praised the Gods of Silver, and of Gold, and of Brass, of Iron, Wood, and Stone. When the Philistines wer…

Indeed, Lord, and if ever my Conscience, which by rebellion is now grown silent, should be in judgment awakened in this life, Oh what an Hell should I have within me! how would it thunder and roar upon me, and surround me with terrors! Your word assures me, that no length of tim…

They consider not in their Heart, that I remember all their wickedness. King Belshazzer was carousing and drinking wine in bowls, and praising his Gods of Gold and Silver; but while he was sinning, God was writing, Daniel 5:6. In the same hour came forth fingers of a mans hand,…

All that is in the world it is but a semblance, and an appearance, that which tickles the senses, it does not go to the heart. You would have thought Belshazzar was merry at the heart when he was quaffing and carousing in the cups of the Temple, but how soon is the edge of his b…

- 3 Without intermission. 1 They will be exceeding great and terrible, such as will make the stoutest hearts to quake and tremble: If the writing of Mene, Mene, Tekel, etc. made a change in Belshazzar's countenance, and trouble in his thoughts, so that the joints of his loins we…

If the ravens of the valley shall pick out the eyes of them that curse father and mother (Proverbs 30:17), what is likely to come on them that make nothing of cursing God himself! It is against God in whose hand our breath is, and whose are all our ways, on which account we shou…

God gives our lives, God keeps our lives, and this is His revealed, His preceptive will concerning our lives; Man, I suffer your life, yes, I support your life, that I may be praised, loved, admired by you as long as you live. It was a heavy dismal charge against Belshazzar, in…

Or like Jonah's gourd, that springs up in a night and withers in a night, they have no root in the heart, and therefore quickly perish; now then if a man may desire grace but not for grace's sake, if desires may be without endeavors; if a man may desire grace when it is too late…

While the sinner is fearing the evil that is deserved, behold the feet of the officer now approaching to see present execution, and therefore the Lord in the third place puts a commission into the hand of Conscience, really to attach and arrest the soul of a sinner, to fasten al…

Ezekiel 7:19: They shall cast their silver in the streets; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. King Belshazzar was carousing; he drank wine in the golden vessels of the temple (Daniel 5:3), but when the fingers of a…

And the like do we see in Laish (Judges 18:27): they were a people at quiet, and secure, and now were the Danites at hand, to smite with the edge of the sword, and to burn the city with fire. So in Babylon; we read (Daniel 5:1) that Belshazzar the King made a great feast to a th…

If we neglect his dealings, he takes it badly and gives us over to our lusts more and more. Daniel 5:22: a judgment had been brought upon Nebuchadnezzar in the sight of his son Belshazzar, which should have been a means to turn him. But God says: 'You, Belshazzar his son, have n…

The guilty conscience makes a man like him who lies on a bed that is too narrow and the covering too short, who would with all his heart sleep but cannot. Belshazzar, when he was in the midst of his mirth, seeing the handwriting on the wall, was struck with great fear, so that h…

It is sin to another man that does not know it; but to him that knows it, it is a greater sin; this Christ refers to and speaks of Judas that would betray him; and yet knew that he was the Son of God: What, my Disciples to betray me! his sin was the greater, Conscience is Gods O…

Section 3: The Second Act of Christ's Power, in Working Compunction or Sense of Sin. Compunction — pricking at the heart or sense and feeling of sin — is different from conviction of sin; the latter is the work of the understanding, and seated in that principally; the other is i…

2. Vanity is taken for lightness. Lighter than vanity is a phrase used, Psalm 62:9 — and of whom is it spoken? of men, and if anything in them be lighter than other, it is their thoughts which swim in the uppermost parts, float at the top, is as the scum of the heart; when all t…

My times are in your hands (Psalm 31:5). (Daniel 5:23) You have not honored your God, in whose hand your breath is, and all your ways, it was the sin of the profane King not to regard it; All his ways and turnings, his sickness and health, and all his changes, they are all in Go…

Many stout victorious monarchs have been overthrown, because after a conquest they feared no fresh assault, and so have been suddenly surprised. It should seem that Belshazzar was so overtaken, because the same day that he made his royal feast, himself was slain, and his kingdom…

As for such as think to repent at their death, how know they what warning they shall have of their death? May they not suddenly be taken away as Belshazzar (Daniel 5:30), and the rich fool (Luke 12:20)? But what if some sickness come before as death's harbinger?

If the heart of a King who has an inward natural liberty equal with others, and an outward liberty belonging to his state and condition above them, be yet so in the hand of the Lord, as that he always turns it, to what he pleases in particular, then certainly other men, are not…

Moses, a man learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians (Acts 7:22) — there was the wisdom of the serpent: and the meekest man alive (Numbers 12:3): Now the man Moses was very meek above all the men upon the face of the earth — there was the innocency of the dove. Daniel was an…

Romans 1:30: Inventors of evil things. Some invent new oaths, others new snares: such were those presidents that invented a decree against Daniel, and got the king to sign it (Daniel 6:9). (4.) Those sins are greater which proceed from a spirit of malignity.

My foot has held his steps: though the way of religion has flints and thorns in it, yet my foot has held his steps, I have not fainted in the way, nor turned out of the way. Daniel held on his religion, and would not intermit prayer, though he knew the writing was signed against…

And as God overlooks all his children always: so principally his providence shows itself, when they are in the deepest dangers, or in the greatest want of natural helps. When Daniel was cast into the Lions' den, God was there with him, and shut their mouths, Daniel 6:22. When th…

The like we may see for fire, in the 3 children, Daniel 3:16, 23; who were not afraid of the hot burning oven, but were as bold in it, as out of it. Ravenous and wild beasts are terrible unto men; but faith makes a man not to fear them: and therefore Daniel fears not the Lions,…

The Angel did comfort the Virgin Mary, Luke 1.28. The Angel did stop the mouths of the Lions that they could not hurt Daniel, Daniel 6.22. A Christian has an invisible Guard about him, the Tutelage, and Guardian-ship of Angels, Psalm 91.11.

Question 4: What is the time appointed for prayer? Answer: Pray continually (1 Thessalonians 5:17), that is, upon all occasions: or when a man begins any business, whether it be in word or deed (Colossians 3:17): or as Daniel, who prayed three times every day (Daniel 6:11): or a…

How should the righteous cut off occasion from them that seek occasion (2 Corinthians 11:12)? Daniel's piety sealed up the lips of his enemies (Daniel 6:4). Martin Bucer was Tantae Sanctimoniae vir, so unblameable in his life, that those who did most malign him had nothing justl…

I begin with the matter, or blessings prayed for: it will not be altogether unuseful to observe that diversity which is used in salutations. In the Old Testament peace was usually wished without any mention of grace; as (Psalms 122:8) For my brethrens and companions sake I will…

The fire is restrained in the operation of its nature, even while it retains its burning quality; when the lives of the three valiant believing children are in danger. The mouths of lions are muzzled, when the safety of his beloved Daniel is concerned (Daniel 6:22). And the shad…

All the oppositions the godly meet with, are for standing up in the defence of Truth; if they would desist from Religion, and throw off Christs colours, they would have none to oppose them; but because they espouse Christs quarrel, and fight under the Banner of his Gospel, there…

Quest. 4. What is the time appointed for prayer? Pray continually (1 Thessalonians 5:17), that is, upon all occasions, or when a man begins any business, whether it be in word, or deed (Colossians 3:17), or as Daniel, who prayed three times every day (Daniel 6:11), or as David,…

Of the first sort, are, ordinary, which are several actions of our body, Christianly, according to the custom of the Church, commanded in the word of God, and orderly and reverently ordered in his service. Special, the fruit of the lips, in prayer, and thanksgiving (Hebrews 13:1…

It is true, the word, the works of God, are not the principal object of faith, nor objectum quod; faith rests only on God, and the Lord Jesus (John 14:1; 1 Thessalonians 1:8). Your faith toward God (1 Peter 1:21; Deuteronomy 1:32; John 3:12; Genesis 15:6; Daniel 6:23; Romans 4:3…

8. Daniel is a famous pattern of the resolute and courageous performance of this duty, against all opposition: although he might have pleaded, (if ever any) there's a lion in the way, I shall be slain in the streets or den, for my work in my chamber; yet he feared nothing, he ve…

Think of this rule. 3. For the season, the Apostle says: Pray continually, or without ceasing, yet there are some (as it were) canonical hours of prayer, wherein a Christian's discretion must interpose: only in this case, take the fittest seasons for secret prayer, as when you a…

Profane Nebuchadnezzar beholding the deliverance of those three worthies, from the fiery furnace, he owns them for the servants of the most high God (Daniel 3:26). Daniel being preserved in the lions' den, Darius acknowledges the power and kingdom of the living God (Daniel 6:26)…

3. A care she has to keep them pure from carnal passions, or fruits of her own spirit, that would muddy all. The third comparison is on the matter the same, but adds a further degree to the former; she is (says he) a fountain sealed: a fountain may signify waters springing in gr…

We may well think that Ahaz who set himself so violently to deface the holy things of God, to profane his ordinances, and to shut up the doors of God's house, gave strict charge to his son that he should not repair them again; yet Hezekiah as soon as he had power did repair all…

As light bodies are moving upward, so the saints are looking upward to God, and praying alone to him. Daniel was three times a day with God, and would not omit his hours of prayer, though his life was in danger (Daniel 6:10). And David, seven times a day do I praise you (Psalm 1…

Cornelius prayed to God always, every day he had his times of familiarity with God (Acts 10:2). Daniel, though with the hazard of his life, would not omit praying three times a day (Daniel 6:10). And David speaks of morning, evening, and noon (Psalm 55:17).

In the Old Testament Pharaoh and his nobles (Exodus 1:10): Come on, [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that when there falls out any war, they join also to our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out…

The Church of God is out of repair sometimes in one point, sometimes in another; the orthodoxy of the generality of men is usually an age too short, in things now [reconstructed: afoot]; they go wrong, or forbear to give help to the Church, because the God of this world has blin…

Kill you, as well as cast you out of the synagogue. (Daniel 6:4) The Persian noblemen sought to find occasion against Daniel because of the kingdom, though they find none. 4. To make way for errors and falsehoods, so many pits do the wicked dig, to beguile unwary and unstable so…

As precious a thing as life is, a godly man would not willingly sin to save his life. Though the mouth of a fiery furnace (heated sevenfold) were open to devour the three children (as we use to call them) yet they would not sin (Daniel 3:18), and Daniel would rather venture into…

Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 3:28, 29, 30) as soon as he knew God upon that great work of God's power in delivering the three children out of the fiery furnace, made a decree that whoever should speak anything amiss against him, should be cut in pieces and their houses made a dunghill…

This was the trap laid for the three children; they must dance after Nebuchadnezzars pipe, or burne. This was the plot laid to ensnare Daniel, who walk't so unblameably, that his very enemies gave him this testimony, that he had no fault, but his singularity in his Religion, Dan…

The ox and the donkey being more knowing to their owner, and the swallow and the crane being more discerning of their times, than men are. 2. They so keep their line, that there is more self-denial in their actings, than in man's way: as if fire were not fire, and nature in it d…

For it is above the power of natural generation, that the substance of one creature should be really turned into the substance of another, as the substance of a rod into the substance of a serpent. Of the like kind, were the standing of the sun in the firmament without moving in…

Use 2. As you would evidence the New-birth, cry Abba Father; be men of prayer; pray at least twice a day: In the Temple there was the Morning and Evening Sacrifice: Daniel prayed three times a day; nay, so did he love prayer, that he would not neglect prayer to save his life, Da…

Satan came to Christ, and found nothing in him, John 14. 30. What a confounding thing will it be to the wicked, when they shall have nothing to fasten as a crime upon the godly, but their holiness, Daniel 6. 5. We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, unless we find i…

There was also an act made in the days of Nebuchadnezzar the Great, another of his servants, that whoever would not fall down and worship his golden image, should be thrown into a fiery furnace (Daniel 3:6). There was also an act made in the days of Darius, that whoever for some…

That is said of the general example in 1 Corinthians 10: they are written for our learning. When it is said that David prayed often, and Daniel expressly in Daniel 6:3 prayed three times a day — that was his constant course. I say, we may think we are bound to do it at the least…

But the oppositions found in unrenewed souls against sin are not from their nature, for sin is suitable enough to that, but from the light that is in their minds and consciences, which scares and terrifies them. Such was that in Darius (Daniel 6:14): he was sore displeased with…

If he loses company and is left alone, yet Paul will not flinch from his duty (2 Timothy 4:16). If hazard surrounds duty on every side, yet Daniel will not quit it (Daniel 6:10). For they considered these things at first and counted the cost.

Afterwards a temple was built, which because it was the place of public worship, was by a propriety called, the house of prayer. To this place if the people could not come, they would at least pray towards it: for which they had their warrant from Solomon's prayer (Genesis 4:26;…

Of David, who in his exile, desired greatly to have recourse to the temple. And of Daniel, who is said to look out at the window, toward the temple, and pray (Daniel 6:10). Answer: These places are abused by the Popish church.

(1) Because it is foretold by the prophet Isaiah that in the days of the gospel, kings shall be nursing fathers and queens nursing mothers to the Church of God. (Isaiah 49:23.) (2) Because Artaxerxes, who was but a heathen king, was very careful to make a decree that whatever wa…

6. God is an eternal good. He is the ancient of days (Daniel 7:9), yet never decays, or waxes old. The joy he gives is eternal, the crown he gives fades not away (1 Peter 5:4).

God is his God, and heaven is his haven. 2. If God be our God, then our soul is safe: The soul is the jewel, it is a blossom of eternity (Daniel 7:15). I was grieved in the midst of my body.

Thus sinners are in the house of bondage, but God takes his elect out of this house of bondage: He beats off the chains and fetters of sin: He rescues them from their slavery: He makes them free, by bringing them into the glorious liberty of the children of God (Romans 8). The l…

For he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. The reduplication denotes the certainty (Daniel 7:9). I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of Days did sit, whose garment was white as snow.

[illegible], Thales. There is a figurative description of God (Daniel 7:9): The Ancient of Days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool. His white garment with which he was clothed signified his majesty, his hair like the pure wool,…

Quest. 5. Wherein does it appear that God is the best Father? Resp. 1. In that he is most ancient; (Daniel 7:9) The Ancient of Days did sit: A figurative representation of God who was before all time. This may cause veneration.

Q. What is the number of Angels? A. Though they be not infinite, yet their number is very great, and to us they are innumerable (Daniel 7:10; Psalms 68:17; Matthew 26:53; Hebrews 12:22). Q. What end and office were they created for?

Of him the whole Family of them in Heaven and Earth is named (Ephesians 3:15). They are the Family of God, or household of God (chap. 2:19), the Saints of the most high (Daniel 7:27). The name of God is upon them, and therefore what is done to them is done towards the name of Go…

Abraham represented his presence in the church, or the church, as his body. I will neither approve of nor reject that conjecture of some, that these four kings were types of the four great monarchs of the world which the church of God was to conflict withal, and at length to pre…

But he holds his office in subordination to God, being faithful to him that appointed him. So the Angels are said to minister to God (Daniel 7:10), that is, to do all things according to his will, and at his command. So had the Lord Christ a Ministry.

But there is no ground to conceit or fancy such distinct places in heaven above; yes, it is contrary to the Scripture so to do: for the residence of the holy angels is before and about the throne of God. So are they always placed in the Scripture (Daniel 7:10; Matthew 18:10; Rev…

And therefore is it often said that God shall judge the world (Deuteronomy 32:35, 36, Ecclesiastes 12:14), God the Judge of all (Hebrews 12:23). But the actual administration of it is committed to Jesus Christ alone to be exercised visibly in his human nature (Romans 14:11, Dani…

Some come with the fury of a storm, as if they would bear down all before them; such were the primitive persecutions, and that at this day in many places under the Papal Power. Others by their long duration in wasting, vexing, consuming troubles, are designed gradually to wear o…

Now what this throne is, and how Christ sits in the same, the scripture has not revealed, and therefore I will not stand to search. Yet here must we further mark, that this appearance of his in endless glory and majesty shall be most terrible and dreadful to the ungodly, and the…

Oh what an infinite honor is it to be regenerated by the Spirit, and enrolled among the first born of heaven! The righteous man derives his pedigree from the Ancient of Days (Daniel 7:9). He gives the fairest scutcheon, the eagle, and [reconstructed: the] lion; he is near a kin…

So in Revelation 11:2 the Church is called the Temple, and the World the Court, and sometimes by the Celestial state, and so the Church is called Heaven and the World Earth; but however there is a plain allusion to Sathans first fall from Heaven, as the ground of these expressio…

Objection 2. God appeared in the form of a man to Abraham (Genesis 18) and to Daniel, who saw the Ancient of Days sitting on a throne (Daniel 7). Now as God appeared, so may he be resembled — therefore it is lawful to resemble God in the form of a man or any like image in which…

If we consider what is commonly intended by such-like phrases in the Scripture, I think we shall be naturally, and as it were necessarily led to understand those words thus; Their policy, by which heretofore they have prevailed, shall now fail them; their authority shall be weak…

Christ after death lived and can die no more, and is strong and omnipotent; now death did all it could against Christ in that he died; then he must be the Victor, and death the vanquished party; death was Christ's land-port, his shore after sad sea-sailing, his last stage in whi…

Now in regard it is a usual thing in the Scripture to appropriate the descriptions which are made of God, to the signs, the use of which was ordinary, and the knowledge of which was familiar among the faithful; it may be the Prophet saw such a figure. In the meantime I so contin…

Verse 7. The increase of his government and peace shall have no end: he shall sit on the throne of David, and on his kingdom, to order it and to establish it with judgment and with justice, from now on even for ever: the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this. He here begin…

Rehoboam, the third successor, hardly retained a tribe and a half. The angel now declares that, when it has been established in the person of Christ, it will not be liable to destruction, and, to prove this, employs the words of Daniel 7:14, of his kingdom there shall be no end.…

There is no small consolation also in the phrase, half a time, (Daniel 12:7) for though the tribulations be of long continuance, yet the Spirit shows that they will not be perpetual. And, indeed, he had formerly used this form of expression: The calamity of the Church shall last…

I saw the Lord sitting on his Throne[[original in non-Latin script]], and all the Host of Heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left. That is all the Holy angels; as Dan. 7. 10. 2 Chron. 18. 18. And the Host of God, Gen. 32. 1, 2.

Whether ever he spake to them immediately, or only by the Ministry of Angels, is not so certain. It is also granted, that there was in Vision sometimes signs or representations of the Person of the Father, as (Daniel 7). But that the Son of God did mostly appear to the Fathers u…

Moreover it is declared, that he shall sit upon his throne for ever, and reign, while his enemies are made his footstool (Isaiah 9:7; Psalm 2:7, 8; Psalm 45:6, 7), and yet, that he shall be cut off (Daniel 9:26), that he shall be pierced in his hands and feet (Psalm 22:16), slai…

Besides they observe the number of the verses at the end of every book: as also that [in non-Latin alphabet] in [in non-Latin alphabet] Leviticus 11:42 is the middle letter of the Law; [in non-Latin alphabet], Leviticus 10:16 the middle word; Leviticus 13:33 the middle verse; th…

Secondly, their several employments also did greatly differ. The work of Angels was immediately to attend the Throne of God, to minister before him, and to give glory to him, and to execute the commands of his Providence in the government of the works of his hands (Psalm 68:17;…

So does the Midrash Tehillim on Psalm 2. v. 7. and also on this Psalm, v. 1. though there be an endeavour therein foolishly to wrest it to Abraham. Ra. Saadias Gaon, on Daniel 7:13. whose words are reported by Solomon Jarchi on Genesis 35:8. Ra. Arama on Genesis 15. as he is at…

When the Angels sinned the whole race or kind did not prevaricate. Thousand thousands of them, and ten thousand times ten thousands continued in their obedience, Daniel 7:10. But here, all and every individual of mankind (he only excepted which was not then in Adam) were imbarke…

They will quickly find it their wisdom to become as weaned children before him, and content themselves with what he shall guide unto them, which is to wait for him. This fiery holiness streams from his throne, Daniel 7:10. and would quickly consume the whole creation, as now und…

1. They are used to signify the nature and disposition of a person, as good or evil; hence evil men are said to have lions' teeth, and that their teeth are as spears (Psalm 57:4). And that beast (Daniel 7:5, 7) is said to have three ribs in his teeth, pointing out its cruel disp…

3. It may signify the qualifications, with which he, as head to the body, is furnished for its benefit and good: So he is an excellent head, for contriving of what is for the good of the body, and for furnishing life and motion to all his members; Thus (Ephesians 4:16), he is th…

"You shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear your God." God has put a signal honor upon it, by styling himself the Ancient of Days (Daniel 7:9), and he threatens it as a great judgment upon a people (Isaiah 3:5), that the children shall b…

3. I would observe, that each of those four great dispensations which are represented as Christ's coming in his kingdom, are but so many steps and degrees of the accomplishment of one event. They are not the setting up of so many distinct kingdoms of Christ; they are all of them…

"And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaks in pieces, and subdues all things: and as iron that breaks all these, shall it break in pieces, and bruise." So also Daniel 7:7, 19, 23. The time that the Romans first conquered and brought under the land…

Though some parts of God's church sometimes have had rest, yet to this day, for the most part, the true church is very much kept under by its enemies, and some parts of it under grievous persecution; and so we may expect it will continue till the fall of Antichrist; and then wil…

Not that Christ should cease to reign or have a kingdom after this; for it is said, Luke 1:33, "He shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever, and of his kingdom there shall be no end." So in Daniel 7:14, "That his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away…

Ungoverned anger inflames the natural heat, and so begets acute diseases, dries up the radical moisture, and so hastens chronical decays. The body is called the sheath or scabbard of the soul (Daniel 7:15, margin). How often does an envious fretful soul, like a sharp knife, cut…

Much has been said, but more may be said, to show that there is a mighty power in it to enable the heart to suffer any thing for God; it is that which has mightily wrought upon the Saints of God heretofore: That is an observable place that we have concerning Christs Transfigurat…

2. It is durable: yea eternal; solid gold, his throne is for ever and ever (Psalm 45:6), of the increase of his government there is no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom to order and establish it with judgment, and justice from henceforth even for ever (Isaiah 9…

His teeth are white with milk, and his eyes are red with wine (Genesis 49:12). Whiteness (if I may so say) is the complexion of glory; in that appearance of the most high, the Ancient of Days (Daniel 7:9), it is said, his garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head as pu…

We cannot hope for an extinction of sin, but only that it shall not have dominion. As the beasts in (Daniel 7:12), though their dominion was taken away, yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time. The reign, power, and dominion of sin is taken down, yet it continues, f…

Though Believers are not freed from the In-being of sin, nor from the Combate with it, yet they are freed from its Imperious command. As it is said of those beasts in Daniel, they had their Dominion taken away, yet their Lives were prolonged for a season, Daniel 7:12. So sin Liv…

2. Consider David a prophet, a teacher, a penman of Scripture. There was some knowledge which the prophets got by ordinary means, and some by immediate revelation, as Daniel by vision, and Daniel by reading of books (Daniel 7), [illegible]; either by a new revelation, or by the…

What an infinite honor it is to be the children of the High God, to be of the blood-royal of heaven! The saints are of an ancient family; they are sprung from the Ancient of Days (Daniel 7:9). That is the best pedigree which is fetched from heaven.

How richly and gloriously is the soul embroidered — divinely inlaid and enameled! The body is but the sheath (Daniel 7:15): I was grieved in the midst of my body — in the Chaldean, in the midst of my sheath. The most beautiful body is but like a velvet sheath; the soul is the bl…

5. There's not only a seed, but a rich conquest, the heathen promised, and the ends of the earth (Psalm 2:8-9). Dominion from sea to sea (Zechariah 9:10) (Psalm 72:8) (Daniel 7:14), and both this and the former satisfies Christ. There is not a sight so desirable to the eye of Ch…

But the question shall remain whether he be not for ever and ever a Mediatory King, and does retain his headship over the Church; so as the Angel say (Luke 1:33), He shall reign, and of his Kingdom there shall be no end. And as (Daniel 7:14) Cameron, and others say, the meaning…

Luke 1:33, and he shall reign over the house of Jacob, and of his Kingdom there shall be no end. Daniel 7:14, and there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all nations and languages should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass…

We have many in this age like the serpent for craftiness. Daniel 8:25: "Through policy he shall cause craft to prosper." Men have the head-piece of subtlety, but want the breast-plate of honesty; they are wise to contrive sin, to forge plots, to study compliance, rather than con…

Revealed, which God makes manifest to them in process of time, whereas before they knew it not. Thus God revealed to Gabriel the mystery of the 70 weeks (Daniel 8 and 9). And in the Revelation many things are revealed to the angels that they might reveal them to us.

The Scripture takes notice of the great policy and subtilty of the powers that support this kingdom (Daniel 7:8): And behold, in this Horn were eyes like the eyes of a man. So it is said of Antiochus Epiphanes, that great type of Antichrist (Daniel 8:23): A king of fierce counte…

5. Mortify therefore your members, that are on earth, fornication, uncleanness, etc. Beza, Piscator, and others think it probable that Christ uttered this prayer to his Father, in the Syriac tongue, because the Evangelist uses the word [illegible], to be lifted up from the earth…

Or it was with watching, for they tarried there all night, and Christ continued long in prayer, and possibly being a little withdrawn from them, as in his agonies, he was transfigured before them. 2. The special cause of this sleep was the extraordinary apparition, as the prophe…

And so chapter 8:1-2. So Christ appeared to the prophet Daniel, Daniel 8:15-16: "There stood before me as the appearance of a man." "And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision."

We know when Moses had been but forty days on the Mount with God, when he came down among the Israelites, his face did so shine, that they were not able to behold it: surely the glorified bodies of the Saints, being eternally present with God, shall shine far more gloriously the…

Nebuchadnezzar's dreams were full of obscurity, and many matters were contained in them, so as his spirit was troubled, and he forgot them; but God stirred up Daniel and revealed to him the secret, so as he remembered it to the king, and declared the true meaning thereof (Daniel…

Quest. Why did Christ suffer? Resp. Surely not for any desert of his own, (Daniel 9:26) The Messiah shall be cut off, but not for himself; it was for us, (Isaiah 53:6) Unus peccat alius plectitor; He suffered that he might satisfy God's justice for us. We by our sins had infinit…

Answer: He does it like a God, in wisdom. 1. He does it sometimes suddenly, as the Angel was caused to fly swiftly (Daniel 9:21). So God sometimes makes a deliverance fly swiftly upon the wing, and on a sudden he turns the shadow of death into the light of the morning.

And how nimble are they? The angel Gabriel in a short time came from heaven to the earth (Daniel 9:21). As the helm turns the ship instantly wherever the steersman will; so the body in an instant will move whichever way the soul will.

4. That the Scripture is the Word of God is evident by its predictions; it prophesies of things to come. This shows the voice of God speaking in it; it was foretold by the prophet, a virgin shall conceive (Isaiah 7:14), and the Messiah shall be cut off (Daniel 9:26). The Scriptu…

If one angel slew so many, what would an army of angels have done? 3. The angels are a swift guard; they are ready in an instant to help God's children; therefore they are described with wings to show their swiftness, they fly to our help, (Daniel 9:21, 23). At the beginning of…

Mercy goes by favor, punishment by desert. To us belongs confusion of face (Daniel 9:8). Wrath is that which belongs to us as we are sinners; it is as due to us as any wages that is paid.

He who can foretell things which shall surely come to pass, is the true God. God foretold that a virgin should conceive, he prefixed the time when the Messiah should be cut off (Daniel 9:26), he foretold the captivity of the Jews in Babylon, and who should be their deliverer (Is…

Domitian would not have his image carved in wood or iron, but in gold: God will have the best we have, golden services. 6. We do God's Will as the Angels in Heaven, when we do it readily and swiftly; the Angels do not dispute or reason the case, but as soon as they have their ch…

Atonement was made for sin (Romans 5:11): By whom we have now received the atonement; and peace was made with God (Ephesians 2:14): For he is our peace, who has made both one, that he might reconcile both to God in one body by the Cross, having slain the enmity thereby. Made an…

Imputation alone is that which makes it his, and that [illegible] God's act; and he did never by any thing that he has done lay any the least obligation upon God to do it; and that must needs be most free, to the earning and procuring which, we have never done any thing, [illegi…

And this he did virtually in the sacrifice of himself, or the blood of his Cross, fulfilling and finishing of them all (John 19:30), breaking down the middle wall of partition, abolishing in his flesh the enmity, even the Law of Commandments contained in ordinances, blotting out…

'All fullness dwells in him who is our righteousness' (Colossians 1:19) and has dwelt in him longer than sin has dwelt in you. And the righteousness of our Messiah is 'everlasting righteousness' (Daniel 9:24), the merit of which an eternity of sinning could not expend or make vo…

Not for himself. For as the Messiah was not slain for himself, Daniel 9:26 so he obeyed not the Law for himself. For whom then?

No doubt, the Author of this Epistle was an Apostle, and had most notable gifts by virtue of his calling, and yet he bestowed pains in viewing the particular words of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, recorded by Moses in the book of Genesis. Daniel also was an extraordinary Prophet: y…

For by him are all that believe justified from all things, from which they could not be justified by the Law of Moses (Acts 13:39). To this end he brought in everlasting righteousness (Daniel 9:24). Not a temporary righteousness suited to the age of the Church under the Old Cove…

As to the particular precise times or seasons of them, while they are future, he has reserved them to himself, unless where he has seen good to make some especial revelation of them. So he did of the times of the sojourning of the children of Israel in Egypt, of the Babylonish C…

And Holy in the Hebrew is of the singular number; Holies of the plural; but in the Greek both are of the plural number. And what is thus called was most eminently typical of Christ who is called by this name (Daniel 9:24), to anoint the most Holy. The place in the Tabernacle whi…

Then had the Law its crown and glory when it was fulfilled in Christ. This the Church of Israel ought to have learned and believed, and did so while they continued to pray for mercy for the Lord's sake, as Daniel 9:17. But afterwards when they rejected the knowledge hereof, and…

Yours is the glory] This third property of God arises from the two former, for seeing the title and interest in all things, and the power whereby they are disposed and governed, is of God: therefore it follows that all glory is his: indeed in him is fullness of glory, and the gl…

It is called the house of God (Ephesians 2:19). They that believe are said to be of the household of God: secondly, the parts of the Catholic church are noted, namely, the saints in heaven departed, and saints living on earth: thirdly, it is said to be named of the father of Chr…

A good scribe indeed must bring forth out of his treasury things both new and old, represent common things in a fresh savory way; yet 'tis not altogether unlawful to make use of the words of others, where they are poignant and emphatical, not lazily to go on in the tract, but as…

The souls of the elect are as it were put out to the angels to nurse, and when they die, these angels carry them home again to their Father's house. If an angel was caused to fly swiftly to bring a saint the answer to his prayer — Daniel 9:21 — how much more will the angels come…

And in Hezekiah's time, when the burnt-offering began, the song of the Lord began also, with the trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel (2 Chronicles 29:27, 28). But seeing Christ is come, and has caused the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and t…

Your prayers may be answered, though the thing prayed for be withheld, yes, or though it should be given for a little while and then taken from you again. There are four ways God answers prayers: by giving the thing prayed for immediately (Daniel 9:23); by suspending the answer…

Moses had the greatest manifestation of God's love after he had prayed for the Israelites though in a case of sin (Exodus 32:32), and presently after in (Exodus 33:11) God speaks with him face to face as a man speaks to his friend, and in the same chapter and the beginning of (E…

It's an excellent emblem for the expression of the vanity of many preachers that care for nothing but to satisfy their lusts, and shew their wit and parts, but care not for any fruit at all, care not for begetting any children to God; like harlots they desire not the fruit of th…

Secondly, the parts of the Catholic Church are noted, namely, the Saints in heaven departed, and saints living on earth. Thirdly, it is said to be named of the Father of Christ, because as the Father of Christ, is the Father of this family; so also this family is called by him (…

[Your is the glory.] This third property of God arises from the two former, for seeing the title and interest in all things, and the power whereby they are disposed and governed, is of God: therefore it follows, that all glory is his: yes, in him is fullness of glory, and the gl…

It was in answer to prayer, that God delivered his Church from the mighty host of the Assyrians, in Hezekiah's time; which dispensation is abundantly made use of, as a type of the great things God will do for the Christian Church in the latter days, in the prophecies of Isaiah.…

And since Satan was intent on pursuing and exercising the victory he had recently won over the human race to bring about the eternal destruction of all, God promises that that seed will not only wrest victory from his hands and divide the spoils with that strong one (Isaiah 53:1…

tions this people dwelt alone and was not reckoned among them. They contracted no marriages with the Chaldeans, no family alliances; moreover, they had without doubt carried with them very many copies of the sacred books — copies which the prophet Daniel used (Daniel 9:2). No on…

Ezra 9. Dan. 9. Luk. 15.

Againe, the Prophet Daniel was accepted of God onely for the doing of these things. Dan. 9. And in like manner was Paul, and the rest of the Apostles.

And thanksgiving for a benefit received, does greatly confirm our faith in requests, as Jacob's example does show (Genesis 32:10, 11, &c.). The form of requests, is set down in a copulative axiom, which numbers up six several petitions, where the bond or couple of the axiom is l…

2. If we look to the description of his person, it can agree to no other, for it is said, There was no guile found in his mouth, he was brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before the shearer is dumb, so he opened not his mouth, etc.; he had no sin of his own, whic…

To be cut off out of the land of the living, is to have an end put to the natural life, which is ordinarily done by death; but cutting off here signifies to be taken away not in an ordinary but in an extraordinary way, to be removed by a violent death by the stroke of justice. W…

And this guards against both the failings before mentioned, to wit, against anxiety on the one hand, [reconstructed: and] presumption on the other; against anxiety and fainting, when as there is not only a proposing of our desire, but a waiting for, and expectation of a hearing…

1. That a person pray to God, that he be called on, and worshipped. 2. That our addresses be not founded on anything in ourselves, but that there be a renouncing of our own righteousness, as it was with Daniel (Daniel 9:18): We do not present our supplications to you for our own…

James commands not such a confession. Daniel's, Ezra's, Peter's confession were some other thing (John 1:20; Acts 19:18; Hebrews 11:13; Proverbs 28:13; 1 John 4:2; Mark 3:6; Joshua 7:19; Daniel 9:4; Romans 10:10; 1 Timothy 6:13; Psalm 32:5; James 5:16; Leviticus 5:5; Leviticus 1…

Even they that make a covenant with God, they often break covenant with him; and so often as you entertain any thought in your mind, wherein you have not consulted with God, and do anything further than you have warrant from God, so often have you broken covenant; so often as th…

This has been the course of God's dealing with the prayer makers all along; Abel (Genesis 4:4) God had respect to; it is [reconstructed: in the original], set his offering on fire. Daniel prays, and he says (Daniel 9:21), While I was speaking in prayer the Angel Gabriel was sent…

So the predictions of the prophets (Isaiah 53:10): yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him, he has put him to grief; when you shall make your soul an offering for sin, etc. And (Daniel 9:26): the Messiah shall be cut off but not for himself. In short, that Christ should die for th…

The point being a matter of sense, and evident by natural light, needs not to be proved so much as improved. 1. Scripture represents him as such (Daniel 9:4): he is called the great and dreadful God, so (Deuteronomy 7:21): a mighty God and terrible, and (Nahum 1:5): a great and…

This is the third direction; let your prayers be warranted by the Word. 4. Improve your advocate (John 14:13). Whatever you ask in my name, that will I do: To ask anything in his name is not, rudely, customarily, or perfunctorily to conclude with these words, Through Jesus Chris…

Isa 53:11. Dan 9:25. He brings euerlasting righteousnes.

God promised deliverance after 70 years captivity to the Israelites in Babylon. When this time was expired, Daniel prayed, and at the very beginning of his supplications, the decree of God for deliverance came forth (Daniel 9:23). The vision of God (says the Prophet) is for an a…

It has bin the fashion of all holy men to acquaint themselues with this one lesson, that they were by nature under the law, specially then when they were to humble themselues in the presence of God. Daniel in his prayer, ascribes shame and confusion to himselfe, Dan. 9. accordin…

And this has been always the help of the godly in their distress. Read 2 Chronicles 33:12; Ezra 9; Daniel 9; Psalm 32; 31; 130; 143. Consider the example of the Publican, and the Prodigal son, who condemn themselves, and make their appeal to the court of mercy and grace.

For he takes the midst of the earth for the heart of it, that is to say, for the places most strong and best fortified. Many think the word Consumption should be an adjective: but I had rather affirm that it is a substantive, according to which sense it is taken in Daniel (Danie…

Nor can it be doubted, that this divine intimation, which he received in his individual and private capacity, was intended generally for the confirmation of all the godly. Jesus is called the Lord's Christ, because he was anointed It is scarcely necessary to remind the reader, t…

Quest. 3. The next question is, who is meant by Michael the Arch-Angel. Michael is the name of his person, and Arch-Angel of his office; Michael signifies, he is strong God, or who is like the strong God; and therefore some apply it to Jesus Christ, who in many places of Scriptu…

Joel 2:15-16: Sanctify a fast — let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her bridal chamber. Daniel 10:3: I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine within my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, until three weeks of days were fulfilled. 1…

Moses had the greatest manifestation of God's love after he had prayed for the Israelites though in a case of sin (Exodus 32:32), and presently after in (Exodus 33:11) God speaks with him face to face as a man speaks to his friend, and in the same chapter and the beginning of (E…

And the same word that is here for desires, and translated beloved, it is likewise in other Scriptures translated beloved, that in (Daniel 9:23) Oh man, greatly beloved — Oh man of desires. And so in Daniel 10, where the Angel says, great beloved, it is a man of desire. And so i…

And he is so certain of his enemies being made his footstool, that he is waiting till he see it done; he must reign till then, despite all the malice and might of devils, and men. 3. It's a difficulty to the Church and people of God, to think on such great confusions as are in t…

As the Angel Gabriel was speaking to me, I fell into a deep sleep, with my face towards the ground. Again (Daniel 10:9), when I heard his voice, then was I in a deep sleep. So the Prophet Zechariah in the midst of his visions (Zechariah 4:1), the Angel of the Lord wakened me as…

So (Isaiah 6:5) Then I said, woe is me, for I am undone. So Daniel (Daniel 10:8-9) when I saw this great vision, there was no strength in me; for my comeliness was turned into corruption, and I retained no strength, yet I heard the voice of his words, then was I in a deep sleep…

Such Instances we have in the Prophet Daniel, and the Apostle John. Daniel giving an Account of an external Representation of the Glory of Christ, says, Daniel 10:8. And there remained no Strength in me, for my Comeliness was turned into Corruption, and I retained no Strength.

2. All other Prophets, they say, received their visions either in their sleep, or presently after their sleep, but Moses in the day time standing between the Cherubims (Exodus 29:52). 3. That when other Prophets received their visions or revelations, although it was by the media…

We read of Nehemiah (Nehemiah 1:4), when he heard the report of Jerusalem's desolation, though himself was far off at Babylon, though himself was rich and full, and preferred in the Court of that Persian Monarch, yet he mourned many days. And Daniel (Daniel 10:2) mourned three f…

Againe, a religious fast may be distinguished otherwaies, in respect of the time of continuance, and manner of abstinence therin: for sometime a religious fast is onely from one meale for one day, as Iudg. 20. 26. sometime it is from one meale for many daies together, as 1. Sam.…

And what his soul desires, that he does (Job 23:13). Yet not only are his feet or legs of brass (which shows severity against enemies, in his treading on them (Daniel 10:6)) but the sockets are of gold, as his head was, verse 11. All is of gold that is in him, he is a golden Med…

S. 72. 45. Daniel 10:2-3. When men fasted it was not always after one and the same sort, but either by depriving themselves wholly of all food during the time that their fasts continued, or by abating both the quantity and kind of diet. We have of the one a plain example in the…

2. Sometimes he hears the dumb man's signs, and his breathing, instead of his praying (Isaiah 38:14, 20; Lamentations 3:56; Psalm 6:8; Psalm 102:19, 20). 3. Sometimes the Lord hears, and sends the message of deliverance, but we hear not, nor do we know or feel that he hears (Psa…

And Jeremiah who mourned so, for sin as he desired his head were waters, and his eyes a fountain of tears, that he might both be humbled for the judgements and the sins of the people (Jeremiah 9:1, 2), has said much in the book of the Lamentations for justifying God (Lamentation…

They encamp round about them that fear the Lord (Psalm 34:7). And when wicked men or devils would hurt this their charge, they rise up in their might (Daniel 10:20). Gabriel and Michael join against the Prince of Persia (Revelation 12:7); Michael and his Angels fought against th…

Answer. First that Tract of time can neither interrupt the accomplishment of a promise, nor the comfort of a promise, it is comfortable that what is promised shall sooner or later come to passe, Daniel 10. 1. In the third year of Cyrus King of Persia, a thing was revealed to Dan…

Now that first day being the beginning of the three weeks, and the Angel coming at the end of the three weeks, it is likely he continued his extraordinary prayers so long. David indefinitely says, that he cried till he was weary, till his throat was dry, till his eyes failed (Ge…

The second cause of fasting is, when we are to sue, and seek by prayer to God, for some special blessing, or for the supply of some great want. Thus, when Daniel desired to obtain the deliverance of the children of Israel, out of captivity in Babylon, he gave himself to fasting…

No wonder therefore that it is said, no man can see me and live, and flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. That external glory and majesty of Christ which Daniel saw, when there remained no strength in him, and his comeliness was turned in him into corruption (Danie…

Before Adam sinned he was like a herald that has his coat of arms upon him, all reverence him because he carries the king's coat of arms; but let this coat be pulled off, and he is despised, no man regards him. Sin has done this, it has plucked off our coat of innocence, and now…

Sin defiles all the faculties, the mind, memory, affections, as if the whole mass of blood were corrupted, sin pollutes and fly-blows our holy things: the leper in the law if he had touched the altar, the altar had not cleansed him, but he had polluted the altar; an emblem of si…

After the reign of good king Josiah, came the captivity into Babylon: and, seventy years expired, the Lord by King Cyrus returned them again. After their return, they were one while in peace, and another while in distress; as we may see in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah: but, ab…

And this kind of asseveration is common in the Hebrew (Genesis 2:17): [in non-Latin alphabet] In the day you eat thereof dying you shall die; you shall assuredly die; be certainly obnoxious to Death; it may be also that the double Death temporal and eternal is included therein.…

In Enoch's prophesie not only ungodly deeds are noted, but hard speeches; these Gnostics were faulty both ways, both in word and deed: that which is charged here, is a fault in their speech. It is said (Daniel 11:36) the King shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods…

You are in heaviness through manifold temptations, that the trial of your faith being much more precious then of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found to praise, &c. Affliction is also the fullers sope to purify and make white (Daniel 11:35 and 12:10)…

Certainly this notes that God aimed at more by the land of Canaan than merely to possess them of so much ground. Further, yet there are divers titles that are given to this land; it is called a holy land in (Zechariah 2:12), and it is called a good land in (Numbers 14:7), that w…

For the first part of this verse, Who has believed our report? To open it a little, you shall take these four or five considerations before we come to the doctrines: Consider 1. The matter of this report in reference to its scope; it's not every report, but a report of Christ, a…

Look as it was with the tyrants of Syria and Egypt, that made waste of God's people. It is a notable speech, that in (Daniel 11:35-36). It is to purge them, and to cleanse them, and make them white.

God long ago foretold us, that they should be a sect living without wives. And Daniel also prophesying of the kingdom of the Pope, foretold long ago, that their lust should be upon women (Daniel 11), because he foresaw that they would be such, as could not abide to be linked in…

To the same purpose is that place, Psalm 119:67 Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept your word. These afflictions have the same use and end to our souls, that frosty weather has upon those clothes that are laid a bleaching; they alter the hue, and make it wh…

Sanctified afflictions are cleansers, they pull down the pride, refine the earthliness, and purge out the vanity of the Spirit. So you read, Daniel 11:35 it purifies and makes their souls white: Hence it's compar'd to a furnace which separates the dross from the pure metal, Isai…

It is true, that the ministry of angels is not always absolutely restrained to the Church or family of God; they are employed also in the government of the world. So the angel that was sent to Daniel affirms, that in the first year of Darius he stood to confirm and strengthen hi…

Thus he — O sirs, if you had a treasure, you would hear sermons with profit, endure troubles after another manner than you ordinarily do. 3. This divine treasure enables the saints for noble enterprises: the people that know their God shall be strong, and do exploits (Daniel 11:…

They once came against the people with a mighty army, and with a design of killing all, except the women and children, and of selling these for slaves; and they were so confident of obtaining their purpose, and others of purchasing, that above a thousand merchants came with the…

The principal thing in which the peculiar glory of Israel consisted was this, that to them was committed the oracles of God. On that account it was called the glorious Land (Daniel 11:16). This made them greater than all the nations round about them (Deuteronomy 4:7-8).

GOd having to do in a way of correction with divers sorts of offenders, does not use the like severity with them all, but proportions his correction to their abilities and strength, Ier. 30. 11. I will not make a full end of you, but will [correct you in measure] and will not le…

HEnce we see what a difference is between the men of the world, and Gods people: The men of the world are such, as in all their outward pomp and bravery, are base and wretched, and Gods people in all their baseness and meanness, are precious and honorable: The wicked men are so…

Eliah was persecuted, and must flie for his life, while four hundred false Prophets were fed at Iezabels table: Micaiah must be fed with the bread of affliction, and the water of adversity. Histories tell us, that Isaiah was sawn asunder with a wooden saw; Ieremy was put into a…

But because some might say that amongst the Heathens there have been most famous Captains, who have done great things, as Themistocles and Pericles: If you compare, says he, what they have done, with what has been done by these poor fishermen, all their bravest acts will appear…

Until we are brought to this frame, we do not in good earnest say, Your Kingdom come. An earthly king will do according to his will, (Daniel 11:3). So Christ stands upon his will in his law.

God has an aim in all things that befall you. The general aim of all afflictions, it is to try, purge, and make white (Daniel 11:35), or as it is in (Deuteronomy 8:13), To humble you, prove you, and do you good at the latter end; your enemies, they may intend harm, but God means…

Now what is God's aim and end in afflictions? In general, to try, purge, and make white (Daniel 11:35), or as it is (Deuteronomy 8:10): "To humble you, and prove you, and do you good at the latter end." Let us take that method — here is God's end.

If they be adorned with grace in their souls, then are they excellent indeed: but if not, God in His Word calls them vile persons (Psalm 15:4). That Antiochus whose admirers gave him the name of Epiphanes, as if he had been an illustrious and excellent person, the Angel calls hi…

Againe, you have neede that afflictions should continue long, because sinne is very naturall; some are hidden, and long a breeding, and cannot easily be removed. Therefore what though your afflictions be so, as is is said Dan. 11:7. They shall fall by the Sword, by the Famine, b…

Blinde zeale is soon put to a shameful retreat, while holy resolution, built on fast principles, lifts up its head, like a rock in the midst of the waves. Those that know their God shall be strong, and do exploits, Daniel 11:32. The Angel told Daniel who were the men that would…

This Leviathan, while he thinks to swallow them up, is but sent of God, (as the whale to Jonah) to waft them safe to land. Some of them of understanding shall fall to try them, and to purge them, and to make them white, Daniel 11:35. This God intends when he lets his children fa…

Upon the prediction of the Oracle, Alexander wages war with Darius, and invades Asia, and having conquered him, translated the Empire from Persia to Greece, according as the Oracle had said. Now if question be made, how the devil knew the event of this war, and consequently made…

That which is said of ministers — 'fullers of men's souls' — that is, every man now to be himself: to wash out the stains of his heart, and to make his soul whiter. As it is in Daniel 11. And that will move God either not to bring afflictions, or to remove them.

His compassion is shown in sustaining them in their afflictions, and in helping them in the midst of them. Daniel 11:33-34: when his people should fall by the sword and by the flame, etc., it is said they should be helped with a little help — that is, so much as would sustain th…

1. Sin brings a man low in God's esteem. The sinner sets an high price upon himself, Proverbs 26:16 but God has low thoughts of him, and looks upon him with a despicable eye, Daniel 11:21. And in his estate, shall stand up a vile person.

They told him that they were poor pilgrims going to Zion, but were led out of their way by a black man clothed in white, who told us, said they, follow him, for he was going there too. Then said he with the whip, It is Flatterer, a false apostle, that has transformed himself int…

(13) Because the adoration is founded upon the corporal presence of Christ's body in the sacrament, which is blasphemous, seeing Christ now is at the right hand of God (Hebrews 1:3). (14) Because this Popish adoration of the elements, is a worshipping of the creature together wi…

Q. 7. What are the chief attributes of his being? A. (a) Eternity, (b) infiniteness, (c) simplicity, or purity, (d) all-sufficiency, (e) perfectness, (f) immutability, (g) life, (h) will, and (i) understanding. (a) Deuteronomy 33:37; Psalm 93:2; Isaiah 57:15; Revelation 1:11. (b…

Q. 7. What are the chief attributes of his being? A. (a) Eternity, (b) infiniteness, (c) simplicity, or purity, (d) all-sufficiency, (e) perfectness, (f) immutability, (g) life, (h) will, and (i) understanding. (a) Deuteronomy 33:37, Psalm 93:2, Isaiah 57:15, Revelation 1:11. (b…

We must not only cast ourselves into Christ's arms to be saved by him, but we must cast ourselves at his feet to serve him. Second title, Christ is exalted to be a Prince (Daniel 12:1). There shall stand up Michael the great prince.

2. Christ is a King to defend his people, as Christ has a scepter to rule them, so a shield to defend them (Psalm 3:3), You, O Lord, are a shield for me. When Antiochus did rage furiously against the Jews, he took away the vessels of the Lord's House, set up an idol in the Templ…

He has decreed troubles in the Church, His fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem (Isaiah 31:9). The wheels in a watch move cross one to another, but they all carry on the motion of the watch: So the wheels of providence often move cross to our desires, but still they car…

To see sin break forth in them, who have a face of religion, is most to be abominated. The sins of the wicked are not so much wondered at (Daniel 12:10). The wicked shall do wickedly.

We have a promise of salvation, Whosoever believeth in Christ, shall not perish, but have life everlasting. Of our resurrection, Daniel 12. They that sleep in the dust, shall rise again.

Reserve the unjust against the day of judgement to be punished (2 Peter 2:9). And both these are put together (Daniel 12:2): And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. This truth being o…

He it was that spake and swore by himself. For when a mere Angel swears, he swears always by one greater than himself according to the rule of our Apostle in this place (Daniel 12:17; Revelation 10:5, 6). Secondly, it may be enquired when God did thus swear: [⟨in non-Latin alpha…

1. That we are all made for an eternal state and condition in blessedness or woe. Men may live like beasts, and therefore wish that they might die like them also; but we are all made with another design, and must all of us stand in our eternal lot at the end of the days (Daniel…

Though they are earthen vessels, yet they have heavenly treasure in them; they are filled with the wine of the Spirit (Ephesians 5:18). Though they are scoured with affliction, yet it is to make them brighter (Daniel 12:10). 5. God calls them the apple of his eye (Zechariah 2:8).

Quest. 3. The next question is, who is meant by Michael the Arch-Angel. Michael is the name of his person, and Arch-Angel of his office; Michael signifies, he is strong God, or who is like the strong God; and therefore some apply it to Jesus Christ, who in many places of Scriptu…

Who can be assured that that hour of greatest darkness, the killing of the witnesses is past, and all that sad prophecy (Revelation 11) fulfilled. And if some be not much mistaken, it is told (Daniel 12:1) that there shall be greater tribulation about the time of the Jews' conve…

God makes use of the wicked for the good of his Church. He sometimes suffers his people to be cast out in the open field, and lets the wicked pour waters of affliction upon them, but he is all this while laying his people a whitening, Dan. 12. 10. Many shall be tried, and made w…

For us to delay, supposing that we know the time to be far off, is not agreeable to the language of God's people in my Text, Come, let us go SPEEDILY, and pray before the Lord, and seek the Lord of Hosts. Ans. 2. I acknowledge that Mr. Lowman's Exposition of the Revelation is, o…

Theology as a complex of spiritual gifts — Extraordinary or ordinary gifts — Ordinary gifts peculiar to the ministry or common to all — Christ the bestower of all gifts (Psalm 68:19; Acts 2:33; Ephesians 4:8) — The Hebrew word signifies both to receive and to give — Christ the a…

Although this acceptance of the word, is the great rise of the Popish error, in that controversy concerning justification. Secondly, others take it for God's revealing, manifesting, or declaring the way, how a guilty person comes to be just; and so to justify, is for ministers t…

And so Christ was not free of shame passively, as it is a punishment of sin; for it is a penal evil of the creature. (Daniel 12:2) "Many that sleep in the dust shall awake, some to shame and everlasting contempt." (Ezekiel 32:24) "Elam and all her multitude are slain — they have…

Why, this and that I have prayed for, but my faith is faint within me for want of the thing I desire; why, but be not discouraged, heaven and earth shall fail, but the word of God shall never fail, do but consider what it is you have asked, and know there is no prayer of yours,…

And our imitating Christ in our Ministry, will be the way for us to be Partakers with him in his Glory; the way for us in like manner to be approved, and openly honoured and rewarded by God; the way to be brought to sit with Christ on his Throne, as he is set down with the Fathe…

Secondly, that there are sundrie degrees of glorie and felicitie in heauen, proportionall to mens works: for all men doe not sow alike, neither are their workes equall; but have sund[••]e degrees of goodnes in them, and therefore there are answerable degrees of glorie wherewith…

The passage here referred to, and from which CALVIN thinks that the quotation is not made, is Daniel 9:27, And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week; and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifices and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading or…

Their lusts yet have a reigning power in their hearts; and therefore to these masters they will bow down again. Daniel 12:10. Many shall be purified and made white and tried: But the Wicked will do wickedly: And none of the Wicked shall understand.

Neither shall I at present farther insist on the ensuing Observations, because I will not longer detain the Reader from the Context, namely, that All that serve God in the work of building the Church, according to his appointment, are anointed by his Spirit, and shall be rewarde…

It is not a bare going about, but it is a going about as a spy, to search, to inquire, to observe and consider diligently all things as one passes along. The same word is used (Daniel 12:4) for discoursing; we translate it thus, Many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall be i…

The scope is to show, that she acknowledged Christ's care in providing watchmen and ordinances to her, and as they were not [illegible] to her, but were blessed for her good; so he should have honor, and their pains taken on her, by her fruitfulness, should redound to their comm…

And we are told, that "white robes were given to every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow servants also, and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled." So, Daniel 12:6, "How lon…

Now we have received this light of faith and grace, whereby we discern spiritual things, and behold the glory of Christ in the imperfect manner before described. But in Heaven there shall be a superadded light of glory, which shall make the mind itself shine as the firmament (Da…

And besides, the reason that is given why the Heavens are incorruptible, may be given why the bodies of the Saints shall be incorruptible: the Heavens are of so excellent a form, that the capacity of the matter is fully filled up; and there may be truth in that reason: so the bo…

And you shall then appear in exceeding different circumstances: While you stand with devils, in the image and deformity of devils and in ineffable horror and amazement, they shall appear in glory, sitting on thrones, as assessors with Christ, and as such passing judgment upon yo…

(Romans 5:5) Hope makes not ashamed, because it is not frustrated. 3. By the contempt and dishonor God puts upon them, banishing them out of his presence; they become the scorn of saints and angels (Daniel 12:2). And many of them that sleep in the dust shall arise, some to everl…

And in another place, says he, "He that rebukes a man, afterwards shall find more favor than he that flatters with his tongue" (Proverbs 28:23). Secondly, you will hereby entitle yourself to that great and precious promise, that they that be wise, shall shine as the brightness o…

'Twill be a marvelous miraculous kind of death, a living death, a death that never dies, an immortal mortality; they will live whose portion this death is, and death will be their portion all their life. 4 It's a state of shame and contempt; there is scarce any thing in the worl…

Look as the searcher at the sea-port, or custom-house, or ships, satisfies himself not to overlook carelessly in a [illegible] view, but unlocks every chest, rummages every corner, takes a light to discover the darkest passages. So is it with meditation, it observes the woof and…

Certainly if the angels in heaven rejoice at the conversion of a sinner (Luke 15), how shall that minister rejoice in heaven over every soul that he has been instrumental to convert? Every convert gained, as it shall add a member to Christ's body, so a jewel to a minister's crow…

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold. Fiery trials make golden Christians; afflictions are purifying (Daniel 12:10). Many shall be tried, and made white.

2. God's design; God has a two-fold design in the persecutions of his children. 1. Trial (Daniel 12:10). Many shall be tried: persecution is the touchstone of sincerity; it discovers true saints from hypocrites; unsound hearts pretend fair in prosperity, but in a time of persecu…

Of this opinion were Hymenaeus and Philetus (2 Timothy 2:18). But the rising from sin is called the first resurrection (Revelation 1:6), which implies that there is a second resurrection; and that second I shall prove out of (Daniel 12:2): And many of them that sleep in the dust…

Fiery trials make golden Christians. Afflictions are purifying (Daniel 12:10). Many shall be tried, and made white.

Since man was turned out of Paradise he can do nothing without labor, except sin (this follows his hand indeed) but this treasure of knowledge calls for spade and Mattock. We are bid search the Scripture, and Daniel 12:4. Many shall runne to and fro, and knowledge shall be encre…

Some arguments let us here take notice of, which seem to speak as if a day of trouble were near to us, yes, and not the sounding again of the mountains. 1. (To begin with that which is most general) There is a day of trouble coming upon all the World; and such trouble too, as th…

But let us see what this respondent worthy of such a great opening will bring forth, and hear him speak in his own language, he says then First, this reason is weak and of no force, for the word 'many,' is often so used, that it both signifies all and every man, and also amplifi…

Once the Participle is used to denote the outward instrumental cause of the justification of others, in which place alone there is any doubt of its sense. Daniel 12:3. ; And they that justify many; namely, in the same sense that the Preachers of the gospel are said to save thems…

Now we have received this light of faith and grace, by which we discern spiritual things and behold the glory of Christ in the imperfect manner before described. But in heaven there shall be an added light of glory which shall make the mind itself shine as the firmament (Daniel…

Dan. 12. 13. But go you your way till the end be, for you shall rest, and stand in the lot at the end of the days. The words of my text having no dependance (as to their sense & meaning, but only as to the occasion of them) on the verses foregoing, I shall not at all look backwa…

V. 9. And the Kings of the Earth (being some of them shaken out of their dominion for refusing to close with the Lamb) who have committed fornication, and lived deliciously with her (learning and practising false worship of her institution) shall bewail her, and lament for her,…

4. It is needful for to keep a good conscience by walking in obedience to the truth and will of God, so far as a man does know already: for to such there is a promise that they shall know what doctrine is of God and what is otherwise (John 7:17). Whereas they that take pleasure…

(4) Because, according to Enoch's prophecy, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his saints to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them (Jude verses 14-15). (5) Because many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everla…

(8) Because, the wicked will be carried into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels (Matthew 25:46). And the same wicked, are to rise again to shame, and everlasting contempt (Daniel 12:2). And to suffer the vengeance of everlasting fire (Jude verse 7).

By what reasons are they confuted? (1) Because, there are promises extant in the Old Testament of life eternal (Isaiah 45:17), where it is said, Israel shall be saved with an everlasting salvation; see also (Daniel 12:2). (2) Because, the fathers under the Old Testament, believe…

Q. 1. What is the resurrection of the flesh? A. An act of the mighty power of God's holy Spirit, applying to us the virtue of Christ's resurrection, whereby at the last day, he will raise our whole bodies from the dust to be united again into our souls in everlasting happiness (…