( 893 ) itt sx, x2 ti "t axz s:z "x To the friendly Deader. 'Lthough the revealing of the Revelation, and the Song oSongs, do yeelddeer andnotable arguments,fufficiently to make known the happy,and longed-for vocation ofthe Iews,yet thedue regard of filch a divine myftery, doth require that we brimg forth, and lay to e- very little (park, taken from the Altar of God, which may yeeld more deer and evident proofofthat truth, which mortali men do not yet fuf- ficiently conceive, and fee into. Behold therefore, how this truth is con- firmed, not ofone or two, but of three filch witneífes, as are beyond all Dan.> t: exception. Domicils added to lohn and Salomon, who among the vifions r. Z. ofGod Almighty, do plainly teffifie,that this deliverance ofhis nation, W th ro. , to be performed in the lati times was allo revealed;what fpeciall account i4. -'the good and great God, made of all thefe, do thofe fngular commen- dations teffifie, which the Scriptures have honoured them withal!. Iohn Ih. he is the difciple whom Iefns loved, Salomon was the King beloved of o r ; . his God, whom his name was called ledediah;-2Sam. r 2. 2 . 'ìsniel alfo INeh. r;. is a manofdefres, becaufe in his time, he was molt accepted and belo- 2.6. vedof God. It mutt not therefore feeme firange, if God made known D. xo.. his fecrets unto them after a fpeciall manner, for the fecret of theLord r r 9 is prefent to them that feare him. United Forces do alwayes beff pre- ' r al.-zq. vaile, and the more helps they affociate and joyne together, the ffrongcr Ecc.4.tz. they are, Athreefold cord is not eafily broken. Although therefore thou doe fometime doubtingly read over the Re- velation ofJohn, and the Songof Salomon, for the newneffe and ftrange- neffe of the matter,yet,when by Daniels comming in, fuch an admirable content ofScripture, giveth Inch deer light to confirme the matter in hand,-feare not to embrace the truth, with thankfulnetfe unto God: for here all thefe, not by mutuall confpiration, but by divine infpiration, do p roclaime one and the fame thing. Howmuch alto Danielstefiimony is to be accounted of in this matter, thou Cnalt far better perceive by his own words,well underftcod,then by tnine,as the enfuing expofition plainly fheweth. That truly is ofgreat weight, that Daniels prophecie is deputed, and appointed for the lewes, to whomnotwithfianding,he bringeth nocom- fórt, if that re.furreftion fpoken ofChap. i 2.2. be underftood of the !aft. Aaaaaa a and
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