tk, C:p:7and LU Empereur. 5. Others reckon not Days but Sacrifices (at 25 And through his policy alſo he ſhall cauſe craft to the Wir every Day) and reſtrain the time to fewer Years, out of Macca- proſper in his hand m2, and he ſhall magnity himſelf in his ce WE. *cr5, Foſeph. : FR WY” I Daniel heart », and by || peace ſhall deſtroy many 9: he ſhall || Or, pro- L547 AG 0 I Path, When. 7, any ane” | alſo ſtand up againſt the prince of princes p, but he ſhall /P*9- Net had ſeen the viſion, and ſought for the meaning mr, then ', | un WWc1014, there ſtood before me as the appearance of a | * Proken withont hand g. , | Fs £NO1A, TNETE m He ſhall contrive many Devices, and moft of them ſhall take; he Fig ſys Man 7, : : ; ſhall be a great Maſter of thoſe kind of Artifices ; all to circumvent #4 F { :: Having obtained the Favour of knowing ſomething, he longed for | and deftroy, as Beaſts and Birds of Prey have a kind of Craft to com- BAG FE #2 more clear Diſcovery of thoſe things : and he had his Deſire granted. | paſs, and then devour their Prey. # He ſhall take a Pride in his "Fe il E7 Either the Angel C4v77e! or Michacl,who appeared often i the Shape wicked Devices and Tricks. o Under colour of Kindneſs, and pro- mus « Wot Men, and are the Meſſengers of God in the great things concerning miſing Peace and Amity, ſball lull Men alleep, ſo as to tear nothing + if I F# is Church, Heb. 1. uz, Others will have this Angel to be Chriſt, from him. p All this you find verified of him in the Maccabees and i 2, WE 15 And I heard a mans VOICe 0 between tbe banks of Foſepbus. He fought againſt God in removing the High-Prieſt, affronts £331, ; gg Ulai, which called and ſaid, * Gabriel, make this man to | ing God's Laws, profaning God's Worſhip, Name and Temple, and A741 ſtand the viſion Þ ſetting up the Image and W orſhip of Fupiter there, q By a Diſeaſe 1907 ed, under pg G . i . whereof he died, 1 Macc. 6. 8. 2 Macc. g. 5. '# the: 0 i.e, Of him but now before-mentioned, namely, Chriſt. p Z Ce 26 And h viſion of themmins and the morn3 44. ", By declaring it more plainly to him : this ſhews Chriſt to be God, in : na Tne VHLON c S a p Po 4. . WH commending and ſending his Angel. Gabriel fignifies the Strength of which was told, is true 7; wheretore * ſhut thou up the *Ch, :2.4: & \ 1 WW God. | viſion s, for it ſhall be for many days. l; 14 M8 17 So he came near q where I ſtood: and when he | » i.e. Of the 2200 Days before, ver. 14. This Expoſition of it is F195 wn Yen, 95 afraid, and fell upon my face : bur he ſaid | rv, lain and certain and therore to be believed, and ſeriouſly Fl an x ; : __ inded. s Lay it up i , , c E $1210 E a—pry Underſtand, O ſon of man y - tor at the time of till it be fulfilied. He doth not mean that it ſhou'd be concealed from 2.9308 inc be end /þall be the vilion s. _ ; the People of God that were wiſe in Hearr, for they were concerned in 81% ken! - q He came near that he might ſpeak more familiarly to him, yet Da- | it, and therefore it was revealed ro Daxiel. But he would not have 1 | 48 m1] could not bear the Glory of it, Mat-17.6. ' How much tels can we | jt revealed to the Chaldeans and profane Heathens, and therefore ir = Cl bear the Glory of God, and how graciouſly hath the Lord dealt with | was written in #-brew and not in Chaldee. It was to be fulfilled in 't Ws. 5 to teach us by Men and not by Angels; and how vain are they who | after-times,and therefore to be ſafely laid up,and wiſely to be thovght ING) | his 8 a[pire toa Converſe with Angels here on Earth ? r He calls him Son of on and improved. Therefore it. is added, for ir ſhall be for many Days, i £21 God WS Man, to make him mind his Erailty, and not to be lifted up with Viſt- viz. 200 Years after this, in the time of the Seleucidz ; long atter D.- 7.1 > ant $ 0n5, and thi: great Condeſcenſion and Familiarity of Heaven with him. | y;e/'s Days, and that Generation. See Rev. 22. 10. [Fi "I'f Pev- &* 7.0. In God's appointed time, fs in the latter hae not 27 And * [| Daniel fainted L and was fick certain * Ch. -. v1 bd. Gow 3 An Ws Shoe wich wha I gn > deep days t : afterwards I roſe up and did the kings buſi- - GY. 10, "oF | 2 £ . 4 " _ 0, Is "EF a lkep on my face toward the ground t - but he touched m_ . 0 | was aſconiſhed at the viſion, but none un f 4 me, and + ſet me upright 4, ; z 1. Greatly afi&ed to conſider the fad Calamity that ſhould befa! UT oily; i Being terrified and aſtoniſhed with the Splendor an Grandeur the poor People of God, This he did in Sympathy and Compaſhon 4 Alt) both of th Fl nd Meſſage, by the Sight and by the Voice. & pod P : PF: S fe or the Met COgET © ge, BY TOC SS ) with his People, upon whom theſe Sufferings ſhould fall. 2. Under Of a one Touch only. The Power of Spirits is incomparadly greater | 1. dreadful Apprehenſions of God's Wrath provoked by his Peoples x1- NN" fn firongeft of Men, Carnal, and Fleſh and Blood,in Scripture Sins, which made it an Act of Juſtice in God to puniſh them thus ſe- guty weat, 2 Cor. Lag be 4 , | verely. 2. That Daxtel ſhould not be lifted up with this Vitton and cully” i9 And he laid, Behold, I will make thee know what Revelation. 4. That hereby Daniel might be in a due Frame of 11n- o1gu5 ſhall be in the laſt end of the indignation x ; for at the | miliation and Poſture ſor Prayer. 5. To ſhew the power'ul Opera- Nor ume appointed the end [hall be y. tions and Impreſhons of the Mind upon the Bodies of Men by the God, N !, e, That God will raiſe up Antiochus to execute his Wrath «- Pathons chiefly of Fear and Grief, cauling O:ten Faintings and Con- $0] aſt the Fews for their Sins, and that yet there ſhall be an End of ſternation, which appears moft in thoughtful good Men, whereof are
many Inftances in Scripture, #6, 3. 16. Kom. 9. 1, 2, 3. #4 Having, digefted his Grief, and recovered Strength, he minded his Place, Dury and Truft, and concealed che whole, thar they might not lee it by his Countenance ; though he had deep Thoughts of Heart abour it.
"at lignzrion ; God will have the End of his Intenttor, and the End ' bis Execution, in all his ſevere Providences relating to his People. i115 he ſaith to make ns wait patiently, He that believeth will 00: make haſte,
ther? 20 The ram which thou ſaweft having two horns, are - b, * kings of Media and Perſia =. * | | vt Rungom, Ch. 7+ 17s CHAT.
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