(939 ) fÿ therefore that Tome of the Iewes will hold fo obrtinately their legali rires, and inftitutions , that neither with the famous delive- ranceof their nation, nor with that exceeding glory wherewith the truth fhall then flourifh, will they fuffer themfelves to be feparated from their fuperftition. Verfe 2. And many ofthem that Peep in the drift of the earah.(ball egt7akf. I Suchhath been the troublous rf}ate whence they (ball be. delivered ; The condition into the which they (hail fhift and pare, is waking out of the duff of the earth,which is afterward laid,dowia by a diftribution of faints and reprobates , in this verfe ; 'and again, of faints alone, in the next verfe. As concerning the waking, all our expofitours that I could fee, do refer it to the hfl: refyrreftion of the bodies. Some Iewes contrariwifedo apply it to the reftoring ofthe Church,which they fay fhall be in this world. We mull freely 4nd diligently fearch on which fide the truth is, all perjudice laid alide. It maketh againft ours, that all thefe things, namely, the end ofthe former Chap.and firft verfe cf this, are fo linked together, in a continall courfe, and order among themfelves, for that is meant by the band of time, in the, beginningof thechapter. At that time frail Michael the Prince Band up ; as if he (hould fay, At what time the kingof theNorth fhall pitch his tents in the landof tfebi. Judea it felt, then (hall that great trouble oppreife them, then fhall happen this admirable deliverance, then (hall this refurrec`tion be accom- plifhed therefore, howfoever in other places, paffage may be made from thebirth of Chrift. ro his fecond appearing, yet in this place it cannot, where filch a band Both come in between. And tìnleffe we do allowof this connexion , what a huge heap .would there be in the prophecie , what a guile to let fcape and skip a thoufand fixhundred yeers and more, I knownot howmany, efpe- dally, whiçh bathgone fo leifurely, and orderly to this very place, andwas chieflyordained for the Iewes, to whoni he affordeth no comfort at all, if he paffe , and flie prefently fromChrift, firft ex- hibited unto the latter end cf all things. This one thing may feeme fiuticient to refute the expoution, not onefy of this verfe, but alto of all which , ours do bring upon he ten laft verfes of the former chapter, "which they will not have reach beyond the firft coniming of Chrift, when as yet the Angel hath gone fep by ftep through all ages from thence as wehave made it plain, I hope. Seeing therefore, all thefe things are neceffarily coupled , and .joyned together among, then:felves,if that voyage' of- the King of the G g 'g g North
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