5and Perſians, f Which is a fierce, grim, ravenous The cry eſpecially thoſe inhabiting the moun- - 113 Parts, as Of Caucaſus, Armenia and Media by the Caſpian Sea _—_— Tartars, and thoſe which border pon the Mgul, the Usbe- near nd the Sasbuts ; read Iſt. 13+ 17, 18. Fer. 51. 48. 50. Called ane See Ver. 11, &c. Thus God ſent in the Northern Bears up- Pp gow to devour Fleſh. See how God calls them againſt B1bylon, on Þ4") 20. 21, 22,23,27,28. he reckons Ararat, Minnti, and Aſhlemas, F ws po "Medes "+. Armenia, Parthia, Hyrcania, &c. the rough Nor- Ls and l "Sor ry Bears. £ The North Side ; for the Mede firſt aroſe wot _ _ ” Cyrus the Perſian to come in and aſſiſt him againſt the pas: ptr and made him General. b Several of the Babylonian Subjetts 77 covolted from the Babylonian ( and all theſe made the three Ribs ) as * the Hyrcanians, and Goorim. | ; _ 5 After this 1 beheld, and 1o, another like a leopard z, © hich had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl, the | © beaſt had alſo four heads k ; and dominion was given to 1t }. ; This Leopard was the Grecian Monarchy ; 2 Leopard is leſs than a Lion, ſo was this Monarchy at firſt, but yet durft fight with a Lion ſo did Alexander encounter Darius witha Force very {mall to the other. A Leopard alſo for his Swiftnels 3 therefore deſcribed with four Wings on his Back. & Becauſe thoſe that ſucceeded him were four of his chief Commanders that divided that Empire into four Parts between them ; and theſe were the four Heads to whom Dominion was given, Prolomy, Seleucus , Philippus, Anngonus, or a3 others, Perdiccas and Meleager, Dan. 8. 21, 22+ 1 Alexander did his great Exploits by the mighty Fower of God : elſe how could he conquer Dertus that had 605200 with 20000,and in ſo ſhort a time go Conquerer over 4/2, to the Zaſt- ndies ; 1 mean that part which now the Moenl pofſefſeth, where he fought with Porus and beat him? _ 7 After this I ſaw in the night-viſions, and behold, a fourth beaſt, dreadful and terrible, and ſtrong ex-
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£ ceedingly m; and it had great iron teeth : it devoured hy and brake in pieces, and ſtamped the reſidue with the 4 feet # of it ; and it was diverſe from all the beaſts that < were before it, and it had ten horns o. ;
hot 1 This was the Roman Empire z for that followed the Greczan, and rep was monſtrous as to its Riſe and Progreſs. 7 As to the Variety and d a Cruelty of the Government, it made uſe not only of 7raltans but Spa- he BE 2iards, Gauls, Germans, Britains, which made their Armies hardy, and on: W2& hacd as Tron, which broke in pieces the Gold, Silver and Braſs. But » WS it's plain this is the laſt Kingdom of the four that was to be deftroyed
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their dominion taken away e: yet their lives were longed for a ſeaſon and time.
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proud blaſphemous Horn ; yet did not wholl7 omit to ſpeak of -1:5 © three firſt Empires, and what became of them. He fair, they w-re wholly raten away, that is, ſucceſſively, as Hiſtories t-1i us. The Beaſt. and the #0r7 periſh together, for the Holy Ghoſc t-!1s us, that the Zerz ſhall prevail againtt the Saints till the Antient of Pays come fo tit in Judgment ; and becauſe the Scfſion of [Judgment in Danices Vilion was principally to pluck up by the Roots that wicked Horn. ver, 26, following, Daniel's Expe@ation had failed him, if the Horn had not periſhed with the Beaft. Beſides, the ftate of the Beaſt under the Horn was to be 4 time, rimes, and the dividing of time, yer, 25. of which more when we come to it, 13 I faw in the nighr-viſions, and behold, oze like the ſon of man, came with the clouds of heaven f, and came To the antient of days, and they brought him near before him 5.
F That is, the Meſſiah; this is the ſame with the Stone, Dan. 2. he came wth the Clouds of Heaven, Mat. 24. 30. 1. e. glorioulſly, (wiftly and terribly, Fer, 4.13. g This relates to his Aſcenfion, Affs 7, 9 10, TI. at which time, though X277g before, Mat. 2. 2. yet now and not before he ſeems to receive his Royal Inveftiturefor the Protettion of his Church, and curbing of their Enemies, which he ſays he had be- fore, Mar. 28. 1. 1 Cor. 15. 25. ch. 2. 44.
14 And there was given him dominion and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages ſhould
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h I was tranſported even to Aftoniſhment with the Viſion, it was ſo J#*##Þ» ſtrange, ſarprifing and terrible to me.
16 I came near unto one of them that ſtood by 7, and
asked him the truth of all this & : ſo hetold me, and made
me know the interpretation of the things.
z That is, toan Angel that miniftred, Zech. 3. 4, 7. & That 1 might
learn of him the true and full Meaning of this Viſion, which the
Angel readily told him.
17 Theſe great beaſts, which are four, are four Kings,
which ſhall ariſe out of the earth /.
7 Men of the Earth, of earthly Principles, Idolatrous, Ambitions,
Senſual, Tyrannical;z who, after they have acted their Parts, thall he
driven off the Stage into the Tyring Rooms of Death and Deftrudtion
18 Bur the faints of rhe -| molt High ſhall tate c}2 + Thald, Kingdom m1, and poſſeſs the Kingdom for ever, even jo. *#*
ever and ever. _ m Jeſus Chriſt being their King, they ſhall reign with him, Rev. r.
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there were three of the firſt horns pluck'd up by the roots 7 ; and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes
of a man, and a mouth ſpeaking great things s.
> Daniel canſidere:, and this calls upon us to confider the Matter. a Some will have the 7u4# meant, others before him Antochus Ept- 8 ares, others Fulius Ceſar, others Amichriſt, It's certain the Horn that riſeth out of the He-goat is Antiochus, Dan. 8. g. 10, 11, 12. but the Horn here mentioned riſeth out of the fourth Beaft,or under hin. Therefore he muſt be either the Turk, as ſome will have it, or the Xo- Not the Turk, 1. Becauſe the Horn ſignified only
ea (0! miſh Antichriſt : : | houg one King, ver. 24. 2. He muſt gain all the fourth Kingdom- 3. He