Daniel 7

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…

Dan. 7:15, 16. I Daniel was grieved in my spirit, in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me. I came near to one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this: so he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.

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…