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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