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Tr G Ay Mfr oh _ Law, to ask no Petition of any God or Man but of the King | t00; and alſo thinking hereby they ſhoald have the fairer Blow at 4 2 for one Month, upon pain of Death. They wheedled the King into him. q A Priſoner at Mercy, and yet rebellioully flights the King il he it, and paſſed it into a Law. The King fees the Plot to be againſt | and his Laws, What ? becauſe he choſe to: ol;ey God rather than E & P:niel, and would have ſaved him, bur they held the King to it, they | Men, and ungodly Laws, as this was in the Þeiz11t, Well, that's his W. ks T Kore zealous for executing Laws of their own procuring ; it was a | great Crime; that he prays to his God tht. iimesa day. 7 Which 4 i _ W Net they had privily laid for this Holy Man, and had got him faft, | we account diſhonorable to thy Greatnels, #nd unſufferable from ſuch "Wi ; |. We fee the horridneſs of this Decree againſt God, for it was to | a Muſhroom as heis. What | do all the Native Subjetts of the King 'S ;n+l ungod him for a tine, that Darius might be Deified. 2. It is marvel- | keep his Laws, and muſt this Danzel pretuine to break them, and be in- | tous that Darius ſhould ſuffer himfelf to be periwaded to this Idolatry, | demnified ? Wilt thou tolerate this, O King ? i. _/aph Dh Blaſphemy and Sacrilege, but that we know it was common to the 14 Then the king, when he heard theſe words, * was * So Mark (Hef f gel Kings of TT Rees wo_— to be ſore diſpleaſed with himſelf s, and ſet his heart on Daniel $* 26+ I Che Some give three Realons w arius was periwaded to it. I. . —___. . . [4M 14. # he Carats, and had not —_— Authority, and by this means he would to deliver him : and he laboured till the g01Ng down of Wy
I gain it highly. 2. Becauſe by this the ſuperſtitiousChaldeans newly con- che ſan to deliver him bo 8 Z quered would be the better kept under. 3. Hereby he would ſeem s He was not wroth with Danzel, as Nebuchadnezzar upon the Ac- £2 rot at all to be beholden to Cyrus for the ſhare of his Government. cuſation againft the three young Men, chap. 3+ 19. but he was angry 2 3. The wickedneſs of this Decree appeared allo in this, that it brake with himſelf, that he ſhould be to moved by his Courtiers againſt an PS 21 the Bonds of Nature's Laws, between Superiors and Inferiors, for | 12nocent perion ot !o much Honour and Honeſty. te This made him *& one Month. 4. The Craft of this curſed Cabal is ſeen in this, that they | labour to ſave Dante! till. Sun ſer : Sometimes blaming his own Inad- 2 mind Darius that it was his Honour, Intereft and Duty to ſee this | VETTENcy and Levity in ſo raſh and ſinful a Decree; tometimes conſi- a Law executed, ſezing it was the Cuſtom and Conftitution of the dering the great Reverence of ſo Holy a Man ; then the Cruelty and S Mcdes and Perfians, and he himſelf was a Mede. The Babylonians had Craft in laying Snares by Laws made on purpole againſt the beſt G, WS co ſuch Law and Cuſtom, but the others had of old, ſth, 1. 15, 19. | Feople in his Court and Kingdom. Then withal how hard it was to and chap. $8.3. «, The Courage, Zeal and Sincerity of Daniel in not break or elude a Law that was by Cuſtom unalterable, and how un- balking the courſe of his Devotion for fear of the King's Edi& z but | ſafe to rejelt his Princes when they pleaded for the King and his Ired a3 if he had not been concerned at all in it, being overawed by the Laws: hole car of God, who was ſuperior to all the Gods and Princes of the 15 Then theſe men aſſembled unto the King, and faid Vorld, he made the Command and Inſtitution ef God alone, the Rule unto the king. know, O king 4, that the law of the
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'P : = Medes and Perſians, is that no decree nor ſtatute which =_ «] Now when Daniel knew that the writing was | the king eſtabliſheth, may be changed x. lzned, he went into his Houſe 3 and his Windows being | Theſe were bold Men, they were reſolv'd to follow their Blows, thil open in his Chamber towards Jeruſalem h, he kneeled up- | and would have their Will rather than the King ſhould have his in br on his Knees # three times a day k and prayed, and gave this caſe, which on the King's part was honorable, and royal to retrieve
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reſi hich doubtlels all the devout Jews in this Captivity did obſerve. To- | yjead was fundamental to make all Laws and Decreees immutable, was 2a 10 v1ds Feruſalem, not towards the Eaſt which was the manner of the | abſurd and impolitick z for Laws ſhould be effentially changeable by what Gentiles, nor towards the King's Palace, left that in compliance with | the Law-makers, becaule they often lee greater cauſe to change a Law the King's Edit, he ſhould ſeem to worſhip him, but towards the Weſt | yhen it grows obſolete and burdenſome, tho before thought neceffary,