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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12347	The fall of King Nabuchadnezzer Dan.4.28.29.30. By Henrie Smith.	Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591.	1591 (1591)	STC 22662; ESTC S110705	9,720	37

what the voice spake from earth now you shall heare what the voice sounds from heauen These three verses following declare this Kinges fall when and how and from whome it was While the wordes were yet c. there is the time A voice c. there is the iudge O king c. there is the arraignment Thy kingdome c. there is the iudgement He was driuen from men liued with beasts in the wildernes till his haires were growen like Eagles feathers There is the execution and maner of his punishment First of time While c. As Daniel obserued the time when Nabuchadnezzer sinned so he obserueth the time when Nabuchadnezzer is punished as if God had lien in wait to catch him in his words take him at the trip euen as hee watched Lots wife when she looked backe and transformed her into a piller of Salte so soone as shee looked behinde So now the Lord laie as it were in the scout to watch when Nabuchadnezzer spake treason and to apprehend him vpon it O Nabuchadnezzer thou hast vaunted these twelue moneths since I warned thee and I made as though I heard not but suffered thee to doe and speake thy pleasure and vauntest thou still Surely thou shalt scape me no longer I will not heare a worde more against mine honour so hee cut cut him off while the wordes were in his mouth and propundeth the wordes of iudgement against him If you marke the time when the voice spake from heauen you may see three wisedomes of God first God takes him in his fault that hee might see his falt as Ieroboam was stroken when hee stroke the Prophet that he might knowe why he was stroken Then he takes him sodenly because hee contemneth his warning as the fire came vpon Sodome while they contemned Lots warning Thirdly God takes him where he is pleasantest lustiest safest in his pallace which was lyke a castle as hee tooke Herod when his gard stod by him that he might see that nothing can garde him from God but God must garde him from danger or else Princes be not safer than subiects so thogh a man sin often and steale his sins as it were without punishment yet at the last he is took napping while the wickednes is in his hand as the Iewes were while the quailes were in their mouthes and his day is set when he shall pay for al whether it be after twelue moneths or twelue yeares whensoeuer it commeth it will seeme to soone Vengeance doth stay till sinne be ripe watch the time when they are most occupied then iudgement steps foorth like the Angell to stoppe Balaam in his way Because the punishment is more terrible and greeuous when they looke not for it for the worst that is wish like Balaam to die the death of the righteous therefore God will crosse them in that though they prosper alwaies before yet their endes shall bee a kinde of iudgement vpon all theyr lyfe and a prophesie of torment for all men to see what becomes of the wicked after death that they may feare to bee lyke vnto them As when we see some striken dead while they forsweare themselues at the barre some fall downe vnder the table while they sit swilling at the wine some striken dumbe in the pulpit while they preache vntruths euen as the Philistines were slaine while they feasted and as Herod was shamed while he vaunted and as Ieroboam was striken while he stroke What doeth this teach vs but that our sinnes depart from vs so soone as they are done vnto the iudge and there they accuse vs as Cains murther cried out against him so soone as hee slewe his brother I know thy words saith God hee may saie I knowe thy wordes and thy thoughts too For Iudas coulde not goe so closely about his trecherie but that Christ did knowe when his thought entered into his heart and hearde when hee conferred also with the Scribes and sawe likewise when he tooke the bribe though he kept a time to punish him as hee sayth in the seuen and thirtie Psalme the second verse When I see a conuenient time then will I execute iudgement Now the time was come when this king should be made an example vnto all other kinges after him to amend their liues and reforme their realme When the Prophet commeth from God vnto them to tell them what they should doo when dreame Daniel had done what they could nowe God calles foorth his iudgementes and bids them see what they can do commands them to chase Nabuchadnezzer vntil he haue lost his kingdom vntill hee be driuen out of his pallace vntill hee be fled into the wildernes vntil he be degenerat like a beast vntill his subiects seruants and pages make their sport gaze and wonder at him like a foole which goeth vnto the stockes or a trespasser which is gazed at vppon the pillorie So this king was debased when God heard him but vaunt of his buildings Therefore let vs take heede and be carefull after what sorte wee speake and what wordes slip from vs least God take vs in our lies or othes or slanders or ribauldrie as he took Nabuchadnezzer when his toong walked without a bitt for if he had supposed that God had bin so neare and that hee would haue aunswered him as hee did hee would haue held his peace and laid his hand vppon his mouth rather then pay so deare fo● a vaine word which did him no good when it was spoken The second note is of the iudge A voyce came downe from heauen the controuling voice came downe from heauē God is most offended with our sinne for Nabuchadnezzer might haue spoken more than this before any other man and no man could controll him because he was a king and kings delight in greater vanities than buildings yet no man saith why doest thou so because Salomon sayth He which repeateth a matter separateth the Prince that is he which tells Princes their faulte maketh them his enemies therefore since Iohn Baptist died onelie God is lefte to reproue almost all that sinne by authoritie yet one is in heauen hath an eare a tongue and cheeketh the king as boldly as euer the king checketh his subiects When the voice from earth spake vainely the voice from heauen spake iudgement Heere is the king of heauen against the king of earth the voice of God against the voice of man a diuine wrath warring with a humane pride the fire is kindled woe to the stubble The Lord of hosts is in arms against the Lord of Babel and begins to laie hands on him and to thrust him out of his throane First hee rattles him like a thunder O king Nubuchadnezzer as if he shuld saie for all thou art a king thou shalt see whether another be aboue thee Now garde thy person now defend thy honor for he whom thou hast despised

threatneth to take thy kingdome from thee go now walke in thy gallery fetch one turne more before thou be turned out of dore and walke with the beastes in the forrest Now hee comes to the arraignment cals him to the bar O king Nab. to thee be it spoken he was neuer called king with lesse reuerence nor had such pay for sinne in all his raigne God giues him his title but he tells him his lot he calles him king but without a kingdom as if he said late king of Babel hold vp thy hand here a king is araigned in his own kingdom no euidēce giuen against him but as though he had witnessed against himselfe as all sinners do God condemneth him out of his own mouth and to open his eares hee calleth him by his owne name O king Nabuchadnezzer as the prisoner is called whē he holdes vp his hand at the barre Then hee pronounceth the iudgement To thee be it spoken to thee which aduancest thy self like God to thee which wouldest not take heed by the dreame to thee which wouldst not be warned by the prophet to thee which didst all for thine own honor Now hearken to thy iudgement Thy kingdome is departed from thee thou shalt be driuē out of thy pallace they which shoulde honour thee shall expulse thee thou shalt raigne with the beasts in the desart there shal be thy dwelling seuen yeares go now and stalke in the woods as thou didst in thy pallaces and when thou art among the lions and wolues and Beares looke vnto Babell which thou hast built Howe doth this speech differ from Nabuchadnezzers speeche his wordes were but words but Gods wordes were He spake and it was done For in the same houre that which was spoken was done saith Daniel and whatsoeuer the same voyce threatneth vnto our sinnes or vnto the sinner shall be done at first or at last To Nabuchadnezzer it was sayd Thy kingdome shal be taken from thee to vs it is said Thy life shal be taken from thee to him it was said Thou shalt be thrust forth into the desart to vs it is said Thou shalt be thrown forth into darkenesse to him it was said Thou shalt be like beastes to vs it is saide Thou shalt be like the damned Shall not the voice spoken to vs be remembred with God aswell as the threatning menaced to him This voyce came from heauen and therefore it spake home not like them which glide by the faults of Princes and whisper behinde their backs as though they would reproue them if they durst but for feare least the Prince or Councellour or Iudge or Magistrate should take it as hee meanes it and think that he aimes at them which makes them speake in parables as though they woulde cast a vaile ouer their reproofe and eate their message before they haue spoken it The holy ghost teacheth vs here to reproue so that whosoeuer sinneth may know that thou speakest to him Hee which speaketh from heauen as this voyce did must speake like Iohn Baptist among the Publicanes and harlottes and soldiers as though he went from one to another and saide this is spoken to thee this is spoken to thee this is spoken to thee For vnlesse wee come neere this mortall Gods and proude Nabuchadnezzers as neere as Elias came to Achab when hee said It is thou that troublest Israel they will post it ouer and thinke that thou speakest not to them vntill thou speakest plainly as the voyce spake from heauen To thee be it spoken And then they will reforme the matter or else God shewe some iudgement vppon them as hee did heere vpon this great King Nabuchadnezzer Nowe the decree goeth foorth that Nabuchadnezzer shall be king no more Thy kingdom is departed from thee This is such a saying as if Nabuchadnezzer had thought of it before hee woulde haue wept when hee vaunted to thinke that his honour was going from him when he thought it was comming to him yet his kingdom was not departed from him yet God sayth Thy kingdome is departed from thee because thy decree was past which shoulde as surely come to passe as if it were past alreadie Therefore because we care not so long as the Prophet saith we shall die we shall suffer we shal answer he leaueth Shall and sayth Now as God sayd to Abimelec Thou art a dead man not thou shalt die but thou art dead which roused him more then if hee had threatned him an hūdred deaths because he thought that he should die presently so the holy Ghost is forced as it were to exceede and speake more than we thinke hee shoulde speake for the hardnes of our hearts which heare like stones and go like snails If we haue but a weeke to repent we will defer it to the last day that we may sinne all the rest Therefore it was meete to say Thy kingdome is departed from thee That seeing his iudgement should not stay hee should not stay his repentance If this voice had saide Thy Babell shall sinck as Nemrods Babel did it seemeth hee woulde haue thought his honour buried but when he was stript not only of his pallace but also of his kingdome what heauy newes was this vnto him which thought himselfe equal with God and now may not be a king But when hee was thrust among beasts to eat grasse with oxen what a downfull was this to be brought vnder all his subiectes which spake euen nowe as though there none but he and now his seruauntes seruant would not be like vnto him So the king of kings wil be honoured of kinges as they are of their subiects or els he wil tread vpon their crownes and they shall heare the same at last Thy kingdome shall depart from thee Now followeth the execution of this iudgement for Daniel saith The same houre all this was fulfilled So he sheweth the order of it as a prisoner is brought to the barre and lead to gybbet so this king was drawne from his throne and turned into the wildernesse where hee abode among wilde beastes so long Till his haires were growne like Eagles feathers and his nayles like Birdes clawes When God began hee made haste it was long before hee spoke but when he spoke hee did it and effected in an houre all that the dreame and the Prophet had foretold Then was fulfilled The pride of man shall bring him low Euen in that houre that Nabuchadnezzer aduanced himselfe more then before in the same houre hee was brought vnder al his subiects al his seruantes and pages so hee which setteth vp can pull down he which gaue can take he which made can destroy Therefore let no man vaunt though he were a king of his house or land or farme or children but knowe that he shoulde haue nothing if God did not regarde him more than other and thinke when thou doest reade this storie whether thou be not as proude of thy welth as Nabuchad was of