>* : Mat-21- Jeſolate d. 5, Mar, My Il _ : ( Cs a ns 214. Luk, * This [ Ze] is not Titus making truce with the Fews, which he did 27. 20, Bot, though he indeavoured to perſwade them that he might ſpare them. 1 ſay then with Graſer, Mede, and others, that this [ Ze] is the Meſſtzh, and the Covenant he confirms is the New Teſtament or Covenant, called ther2'ore the Covenant of the People, J/a.- 42. E. and 49. $. and He 1s called the Angel of the Covenant, Ma. 3. I. and the Surety or the Covenant , Zeb. 7. 22. and the anti- ent Rabbins called the Meſ:45 D'I'A 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. Marth. 28. 2. (2.) Foba Baptiſt. (3.) Of the Wiſe-men, (4.) By the Saints then living, Luk, 1.2, (5+) Moſes and Elias, Mat. 17. 3. (6) PFarijces, as Nicodemus, 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 Relurrection and Aſcenſion. 6. By his Death and Blood ſhed, » V2 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, J/a. 11. 9. and 49. 6. and 53. 11, 12. and 54. 2, 3. Mark. 16. 15. Ad. 13. 45. q. d, With many Fews firſt and laft, 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. 4 Many were con- verted to the Chriſtian Faith, b>th Jews and Gentiles, within the Compatls of this laſt Week. © Zebach and Mzncha, bloody and un- bloody Sacritices, he ſhall caaſe to ceale, 7. e, all the Jewiſh Rites, and Levitical Ccremonious Worſhip, v7z. -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 1s there '7'Y more in it than this, v7. That the Lord Jelus by his Death, and by the 1418 Execution of his W:ath, did abrogate and pur an end to this lahori- C | ous Service, and made it to ceaſe tor ever. c For the Ing (as ſome q | render it) z.e, tor the maniiold and great Abominations, ſtretchizp,or as our Text hath it well, ov-1/preading. This Abomination was the &o- man Army with their tagles, and with their ſuperſtitious Kites in ap- proaching to beſtege, and !ubdue any place. And this Prediction is 409 cxecuted by Chriſt upon them, Matti, 22. 7. when he 1s called a King 141 tending forth his Armics, and deftroying the viurderers, and- burn: ay | ns their City ; and their coming is Chriſt's coming, Mz. 3. 1, 2 be Fob. 21. 22. Fm. 5. 7. theretore it's ſaid here, be fhall make ir {:ſolate. 4 Here al} this is made the i:ftect of God's Decree, and therefore irre- vocable. This Word Shomem notes that this People were bewitched, {ottiſhly Supperſtitious, Wanderers, baniſhed, the Aſtoniſhment an! Scorn of the World, all which di4 juſtly and dreadfully befal them, 'W and they verify it to this Day. They that will curiouſly ſearch fur- L | ther into the ſeventy Weeks and other Numbers in Dani-1, and have F leiſure and skill, let them rcad Graſerus, L' Empereur, Waſmuth, Meds, Wilt, Wichmannus, Sanftins, Runolus, Pererius, Derodon, Broughton,
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in any more obſcure and uncertain way, but plainly. This Chapter he is but a general Preface to what is more particularly declared in the Wor next Chapter. g By this Name Daniel was famous among many Peg. 8 ple, and they took notice of him by his honourable Place, Name an{ c Prophecy. . b Both in the matter, and that which was truly to cone os to paſs; not feigned, nor a bare Conjetture , TAR) jt was Tryj: Fu Z 7.e, For 300 Years ſpace, as was ſaid Dan. 8. 26. 0r to the end 1 Antiochus his Perfecution, or of the World, Dan. 12. 2, k And he 4. { underſtood the thing and the Viſion. This is doubled to beget the i greater Credit, and aſſurance of the Truth of it+ han 2 In thoſe days I Daniel was mourning I three + ful? BY weeks mM. ; 8: 16 1 There are ſeyeral Cauſes of Danie!'s Mourning. 1. Becauſe th © | the Fews-had Liberty to go out of Captivity, yet many of them fil : ſtillin Babylon. 2, Becauſe when they were building the Tcmyle SD Ot
Walls and City, they were greatly hindred and moleſted, Pxr. 4, 3. Becauſe he foreſaw the many Calamities of the Fews that woult befal them for their Sins, eſpecially in deſtroying the Meſſ5ah, ant rejeing his Goſpel, m He faſted and mourncd all that time, both ty declare his deep Senſe of thoſe Calamities enſuing, and to be in abt ter Poſture to receive divine Impreſſions, which uſually God reyes to humble Souls, |
3 I eat no + pleaſant bread, neither came fleſh nxt wine in my mouth «, neither did I anoint my {elf at all; till three whole weeks were fulfilled. |
2 Faſting and Feaſting are very inconſiſtent. D#niel at other tins lived very magnificently according to the Dignity of his Place; te