>* "3-24 deſolate d. 5 514.Luk, X This| He] is not Titus making truce with the Fews, which he did 21. 26, Bot, though he indeavoured to perfwade them that he might ſpare them. 1 ſay then with Graſer, Mede, and others, that this [ Ze] is the Meſſich, and the Covenant he confirms is the New Teſtament or Covenant, called ther-'ore the Covenant of the People, J/a. 42. E. and 49. $. and He 1s called the Angel of the Covenant, Mal. 3. I. and the Surety or the Covenant , Zeb. 7. 22. and the anti- ent Rabbins called the Meſ:45 D'VA UN a middle Man, or mid- dle Man between two, Queſt, How did Chrift confirm the Co- venant ? Anſw. 1. By Teſtimony, (1) Of Angels, Luk.2.10. Manh. 25. 2. (2.) Fobn Baptiſt. (3.) Of the Wiſe-men. (4.) By the Saints then living, Luk, 1.2, (5+) Moſes and Elias, Mat. 17. 3. (6.) Pkarijces, as Nicodeinus, Joh. 3.2: (7+) The Devels that conteſt him. 2. By his Preaching. 3. By Signs and Wonders. 4. By his holy Life. 5. By his Returrection and Aſcenſion. 6. By his Death and Blood ſhed, » Va He ſhall corroborate it, as if it began before his coming to fail and be invalid. x Noting hereby the paucity of the Jewiſh Church and Nation, compared with the great Increaſe and En- largement by believing Gentiles throughout all Nations and Ages of the World, Jſa. 11. 9+. aid 49. 6. and 53. Ll, 12. and 54. 2, 3. Mark. 16. 15. Act. 13. 45. q. d, With many Fews firſt and laſt, and with many more of the Nations, yea with the many- whom the Rab- bins and Pharijees deſpile as the Rabble, the common People, 1/2. 42. 2. Matth, 21. 31. Foh. 7. 48, 49. 1 Cor. 1. 26, 27. @ Many were con- verted to the Chriſtian. Faith, b>th Jews and Gentiles, within the Compatls of this laſt Week. 5 Zebach and Mincha, bloody and un- bloody Sacritices, he ſhail cauſe to ceale, 7. e. all the Jewiſh Rites, and Levitical Ccremonious Worſhip, viz. by the burning of the Tem- ple, before the City was taken, for they were only to offer Sacrifice in the Temple, nor had they whecewithal in the Siege. Yet 15 there more in it than this, vzz. That the Lord Jelus by his Death, and by the Execution of his W:ath, did abrogate and pur an en to this lahori- ous Service, and made it to ceaſe tor ever. ©c For the Ig (as ſome render it) z.e, tor the maniiold and great Abominations, ſtretching,or as our Text hath it well, 09-2/preadzng. This Abomination was the &Ko- man Army with their Lagies, and with their ſuperſtitious Kites in ap- proaching, to beſtege, and 'ubdue any place. And this Prediction is cxecuted by Chriſt upoa them, Matti, 22. 7. when he 1s called a King tending forth his Armics, and deſtroying the Murderers, and burn: ns their City ; and their coming is Chriſt's coming, Mu. 3. 1, 2 Foh, 21. 22. Fm. 5. 7. therefore its ſaid here, be fhall make it {-ſolate. 4 Here al} tlis is made the i:ttect of God's Decree, and therefore irre- vocable. This Word Shomem notes that this People were bewitched, lottiſhly Supperſtitious, Wanderers, baniſhed, the Aſtoniſhment an Scorn of the World, all which did juſtly and dreadfully befal them, and they verify it to this Day. They that will curiouſly ſearch fur- ther into the ſeventy Weeks and other Numbers in Dant:1, and have leiſure and $kill, let them rcad Graferus, L' Empereur, Waſmuth, Meds, Wilt, Wichmanaus, Senftins, Runolius, Pererius, Derodon, Broughton, Lt-:ioh's, elvttus, CaioHas, Geiertts, 8&0, Iege Foſs Med. p. $61, &c
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Daniel humbling himſelf before God, ſeeth a viſion, x ——. bers af frizhted, us comforted by an Angel, who foretelleth whar would be{ 1 Li Fews, 10 14. hercat he us again troubled ; and (trengihene4 by the Angel, who foretelleth him, promiſing to ſhew him what 5 11,4 in the (cripture of truth, 15 ———216
L N the third year of Cyrus King of Perſia e, a thing was revealed unto Daniel f,, (whoſe name was calleg Belreſhazzar g) and the thing was true þ, but the ting
had underſtanding of the viſion k. e This fell out in the 318 Year, which was the laſt Year of the
| Kingdom of Perfia, but the third Year after his Seifure and Monzr.
chy of Babylon; indeed it's ſaid Dan, 1. ult. that Dantzel continued tg the firſt Year of Cyrus, i, e. in his Place of Honour, but he lived much longer. f Revealed by an Angel from Heaven, not in a Dream, in any more obſcure and uncertain way, but plainly. This Chapter is but a general Preface to what is more particwarly declared in the next Chapter. g By this Name Daniel was famous among many Peg. ple, and they took notice of him by his honourable Place, Name an Prophecy. b Both in the matter, and that which was truly to come to paſs; not feigned, nor a bare Conjetture ; TR) it was Truh: 7 7, e, For 300 Years ſpace, as was faid Dan. 8. 26. 0r to the end Antiochus his Perfecution, or of the World, Dan. 12. 2. &k And he underſtood the thing and the Viſion. This is doubled to beget the greater Credit, and aſſurance of the Truth of it+
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3 There are ſeveral Cauſes of Danie!'s Mourning, the Fews had Liberty to go out of Captivity, yet many of them ftzid ſtill.in Babylonwe 2, Becauſe when they were building the Tcmylz, Walls and City, they were greatly hindred and moleſted, Pz7.. y.,, 3. Becauſe he foreſaw the many Calamities of the Fews that wu! befal them for their Sins, eſpecially in deſtroying the Meſſiuh, art rejeing his Goſpel, m He faſted and mourncd all that time, bothty declare his deep Senſe of thoſe Calamities enſuing, and to be in a bet ter Poſture to receive divine Impreſſions, which uſually God reveals
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till three whole weeks were fulfilled.
7 Faſting and Feaſting are very inconſiſtent. Dentel at other tins lived very magnificently according to the Dignity of his Place; he had the beſt Bread, Fleſh, Wine, and anointing after the manner the Eaſt, all which he Jaid aſide, that by auſterity he might affiid ti Body, and quicken his Soul ſutably to the time of Facob's Trouble, anl to a true faſting Frame,
4 And in the four and twentieth day of the fir month o, as I was by the ſide of the great River, which * Hiddekel p :