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Poole, Matthew, 1624-1679 • SECTION 418

Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 2 — Section 418

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and the Temple in Feruſulem, where the Holy of Holies ftood in the | than to make it at firſt: whereof we have ſufficient Inſtances in all

Doi Weſt-end, and becauſe the Temple was the place where the Lord pla- | Nations in all Ages» Will any Legiſlative Power in the World fo Rey) Bced his Name and Worſhip, and promiſed to appear, and aceept his | hjnd their own Hands, as to entail a Yoke upon themſelves and Na-

= 3+ cople and their Sacr ifices, all being a Type of Chriſt, through whom tion, which they and Poſterity could not remedy ? the Intent of the nm, | only the Saints are accepted. Which doubtleſs Dauet by Faith had | Law-giver is the Law, the Equity of it is the Obligation of ir, which 7 ft > a Eye to, "_ allo that God in his own time win __ alſo is the true meaſure of its Duration. AK WHT oem out is Captivity | in tnt .

| out of this Captivity, and bring them back again, and that he 16 Then the King commanded, and they brought

ovito! WWWaithfully minded theſe things in the midſt of his Honours, and Riches, | «-» ro pr! MW Fand Imploymenrs, 3 This Poſture was always uſed in times of mourn- | Dantel y, and caſt him into the den of Lions = : »ow the .

e mul ing and danger, Not that we are ticd to this Geſture, but it is a | King ſpeak and faid unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou nindel comely Poſture before the great God, noting our Guilt at the Bar of | ſeryeſt continually, he will deliver thee a

that 6 WY God 5 Tribuual, and begging for our Lives by humble Conteſſhon and | , 146 þ4q a £00a mind to do Daniel a Kindneſs, but he could not

| —_— and craving Pardon, and blethng God for his METCIES. | ftem the Tide of his Flatterers, who being croſt might machinate

o find _ David, Pſal- 55.17. Their three times were, one at nine 1 | ſome Miſchief againſt him ; having this plaubible pretence for it, they

4. bit is o_ orning, which was their third hour of the Day, As 2.15. ano-] gggg for the Fundamental Laws of the Land, which the King endea-

i ter at the fixth Hour, which was at Twelve a Clock ; then Peter pray- | ygured ro null by his 1 rerogative for the ſake of one Perſon, his pure

45 £ . . : - o = . . — Found - Ads 10. g. Another at the ninth Hour, which was our Three in the | yagay, peing an Alien and of another Religion, which was contra- Ol ernoon, which was the time of the Evening-Sacrifice, 1 A?ngs 18. | ry og that which was by Law eftabliſh'd. 7 Yhus the beſt Man in the

*8, it . ? ?, I S , q Ss «6 p . 30 ACT 3.1, If is called the /7our of Prayer, and at that Hour Our | no qom becomes a Sacrifice to the Malice of the vileſt Men, the King

' Savio . A . bl % OR ® 0 . - FX A - = g: - , Wa "10VT C69ft offered up himſelf a Sacrifice for us, Mar. 27+ 46, 5C- | contenting and commanding it againſt his Conſcience, but for Rez

1 0 nr . ins (; - . . : : « Courts Wing —_ ordered his Afffairs ſo, tho great, that they ſhould not | g,, gf State, being inexculable, for aſſuming the Honour and \Vor- rel A F Mat is ſolemn Divotions to God, I By which we ſee he was a H0- | (4; of 4 God, exclutive to all other Gods and Worſhip; -and for all Princts "86g alſo that he did not abate his Prayers ſor the King S COM- | that be was convinced of the true God, would net worſhip him, nor r oth "yy , nor did he raſhly break the Law by doing it purpoiely, decaute | 5, for gthers to Go it upon pain of Death. 4 No thanks to him ; 's Butte oy In 7 more than he was wont to do in ſerving his God. Doe why then did lc caſt tlie Servant of God to the Lions to try Experi- h a5 bt wn i much Jeſs fintully in this Action. L. Becaute it he ments upon him ? no, to excule himſelf, and to comfort Daniel, but | SD _ _ to God, he would have declared by it that he pre- | +, lirtle purpoſe either. ; Treat Man be = : i NJ ich * " 2 fy . occal ——_— 6 7 And a ſtone was bronghr, and laid upon the mouth

cnmmands God to be worſhipped. 3. againſt the Dittates and Feace x -—_ n m c0l- BW © iis own Conſcience. 4. Nanak the Togle of God, whom he would of the den, and the king ſealed it with his own tigner,

8ere and ſtumble by this forbearance. 5. Againſt his Enemies, by | and with the f{ignet of his Lords : that the purpoſe » is th ores. them in their evil Way, and giving tnem occaſion of [ri- might not be changed concerning Daniel b. faulty * pang and blaſpheming. 6 They are reſolved to make all faſt and ſure. So did the Enemies

grl; [il Then theſe men aſſembled, and found Daniel mn three young _ Dy __ Heat = in very Frag 50 Y1y . = . . - SI . j . g of s = ? . \» « ; f _ (4. MayIng, and making ſupplication before his God m. - eos an _ of i. og _ ſerve | his ine 1a; - | ; » Abi3 12. 4, XC. 409 ana 26 ©, A is Tx" too. - They ITO - A N_ —_ —_ m__ 16. 23, 24. Thus the Heathen Perſecutors, that thought by variety, of = hagy <A Nc Pen. - be | tel; d nniverſality of Perſecutions and Torments we tne * O27. 002, he prevented their breaking open Doors, and ruſhing in, or pod er nnormo nn Py meg wank Proinr ow

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Power from the King of delivering D1te!, becauſe they knew he fa- vour'd him. By which the Power and Providence of God for his Preſervation and Deliverance was the more fignalized, Aits 4. 26,27, 28. Thus the Lord gratifies the Enemies or his People o:rentimes, as if they had a Commitiion from him to do their worft, and they g» a great way in it, as far as they have Rope, F/. Ic. 6, 7: 11ke 22.53.

18 Tocarhe King went to his palace, and patled the neither were || inſtruments of mulick brought before him, and his fleep went from him.

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