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A16852	A most comfortable exposition of the last and most difficult part of the prophecie of Daniel from the 26. verse of the 11. chap, to the end of the 12. chapter. Wherin the restoring of the Iewes and their callinge to the faith of Christ, after the utter overthrow of their three last enemies, is set forth in livelie coulours, by the labour and studie of that bright and worthie man of God, Thomas Brightman Englishman & once fellowe of Queenes College in Cambridge.	Brightman, Thomas, 1562-1607.	1635 (1635)	STC 3753; ESTC S117062	70,294	116

ends in other places The text of the whole 12. CHAP. 1 And at that time shall Michael stand vp the great Prince which standeth for the children of thy people and there shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time and at that time thy people shall be delivered every one that shall bee found written in the booke 2 And many of them that sleepe in the dust of the earth shall awake some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt 3 And they that bee wise shall shine as the brightnesse of the firmament and they that turne many to rightousnesse as the starres for ever and ever 4 But thou O Daniel shut vp the words and seale the booke even to the time of the end many shall runne to and fro and knowledge shall be increased 5 Then I Daniel looked and behold there stood other two the one on this side of the banke of the river and the other on that side of the banke of the river 6. And one said to the man clothed in linnen which was upon the waters of the river How long shall it bee to the end of these wonders 7. And I heard the man cloathed in linnen which was upon the waters of the river when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shal bee for a time times and an halfe and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people all these things shal be finished 8. And I heard but I vnderstood not then said I O my Lord what shall bee the end of these things 9. And hee said Go thy ways Daniel for the words are closed vp and sealed till the time of the end 10. Many shal be purified and made white and tryed but the wicked shal doe wickedly and none of the wicked shall vnderstand but the wise shall vnderstand 11. And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away the abhominatiō that maketh dosolate set vp there shall bee a thousand two hundred ninety dayes 12. Blessed is hee that waiteth and commeth to the thousand three hundreth and five and thirty dayes 13. But goe thou thy way till the end be for thou shalt rest and stand in the lot at at the end of the dayes THE ANALYSIS or Resolution HItherto of oppressours now their deliveraunce is handled which in the generall and in this kinde is both out of great affliction v. 1. and afterwards to an vnchangeable condition and estate vers 2.3 but in his qualitie it is both sealed vers 4. and hath a double opposition of time the first proper to the Angel whose preparation sheweth the number of Angels and the place vers 5. But the conference doth consist of a question ver 6. and an answere consisting partly in gesture and partly in wordes vers 7. The second opposition of the time is such as a man at length should vnderstand also the occasion wherof was also the ignoraunce and the question of Daniel vers 8. The answere of the Angel is partly negative and refusinge v. 9. partly consolatorie as wel universally which belongs to all Saints whom he sheweth this darknes and obscuritie shall nothing hurt ver 10. and withall yeeldeth help an● assistaunce to vnderstand the double time expressly determined first vers 11. the second vers 12. as also particularly which belongeth to and concerneth Daniel himselfe vers 13. THE SCHOLIA or Exposition Vers 1. Vers 1. And at that tyme shall Michael stand vp the great Prince THis last Catastrophe and turning doth prosecute three things in order who shall deliver from whence and whom Some would have Michael here the defender to be Christ and it is very certaine that he is the great Prince yea by farre the greatest of all the Prince of his elect people who hath delivered his church alwaies and will deliver it herafter yet the name of Michael here seemeth to be some certaine Angel whose ministerie the great Prince will vse in this battaile In the later end of the tenth chap. before he is spoken of as a certaine helper with whose aide that glorious Angel assisted seemeth notwithstanding to complaine of his being alone There is none that holdeth with me saieth he in these thinges but Michael your Prince But more plainly there in vers 13. And lo Michael one of the cheife or first princes for Christ is not one of the cheife princes as if he were of a certaine order of Angels and had a Companion of power but all the Angels as servitours doe Minister vnto him But thou wilt say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Acad Hasharim is not one of the princes but first of the princes verily 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is of order sometimes when it is joyned with nownes of time as in one of the moneths that is to say in the first day of the moneth Levit. 23.24 And so with this our Prophet in one yeare of Darius that is in the first Dan. 9.1 From whence in one of the Sabaoths for the first daye of the weeke But the same word joyned with others is for the most part of number not of order as behold the man is become like one of us Gen. 3.22 He doth not mean as the first of us of which sort are manie other places That may be added also that the Archangel Michael in Iude 9. Doth put off the Divil to the Lords judgment as if himselfe had not power and authoritie to restraine him which yet notwithstandinge Christ doth exercise Mar. 1.25 as in manie places elswhere in the Gospel Neither is it likely that the Apostle if he had meant Christ would not have called him by his proper name especially when he doth bring his argument from the greater whose force is much lessēed if that which is greatest of all be not called by his owne but by a farre inferiour title Yet doe I not so dispute of this as if I meant willingly to contend with anie man about that matter but onely to finde out truth wherof very great care is to be taken as much as may be even in the smallest matters Neither is it of necessitie that things must be done by the ministerie of an Angel from heaven in such sort as no part therof should be acted by man but Christ may raise and stirre up some excellent man in whose person he may present a visible Michael as in that battaile of Michael and the Divil in Apocal. 12. we have seene But what kinde of ministerie soever it shal bee in what maner this Prince shall come prepared and furnished to the battaille it is at large declared in Apocal. 19.11 Secondly whence he shall deliver is from such a troublesome time as was not the like from the begining of the nation vnto that very time The Turk is alwaies intolerable even in peace rest and

happily heere in this place the wordes are this very prophecye frō the beginning of the tenth chapter the book all his visions in generall which he is commaunded to hide in a profound stile hard to be knowne and to put them together in a book after God had last spoken to him in this kynde of visions but the former visions were alreadie written before so as it is better to referre words and booke to the same thinge yet so as the thinges should be kept close and not be hid for ever but onely to the time of the end of what end Of a perfect end or soone after to be perfected nigh at hand as it seemeth and a litle before the end when thinges lately buried in obscure darknes shal be brought forth into open light Daniel might have objected that so the elect should be deprived of the fruite of a most holie and divine revelation The angel meets with it as if he should saie Let not that trouble thee for manie shal come to and fro and knowledge shal be increased that is to saie although these thinges be hard and difficult yet some wil take great paines in searching out the truth and by wise discourse gather one thing of another wil level very neere yea and hit the mark it selfe and will much increase knowledge which thing indeed wee have seene come to passe both in the Iewes and in our owne men who by diligent search have found out manie remnants of this gold scattering heere and there and therby have brought much profit both to themselves and to the Church But for what cause would God have these thinges shutt up for a time First that the wicked by seing should not see and by hearing should not heare wherfore Christ spake in parables to the vnbeleeving Iewes and Iohn was commaunded to seale up those things which the thunders uttered Apoc. 10.4 Secondly That securitie should not growe upon the Saincts by the expectation of a long time to whom the opinion of an end alwaies approaching should bee profitable whereby they may have their Lampes alwayes in a readines Thirdly that there might be a testimony of Gods truth in those auncient times when the wicked at length shall know that those things were foretold many ages before which themselves doe finde most true after it is too late 4. Lastly because this obscuritie shall not take away all understanding of the Saincts but shall whet only their diligence in searching to whom the Angell promiseth a further profiting and proceeding seing by their godly labour and diligence God doth make over to the godly all his mysteries secrets in Christ And J Daniel looked behold two standing Vers 5. So is the seating now followeth the first designing of the time the preparation whereof doth propound unto as two other Angels and th● place where they stood The number seemeth to be added for the confirmation of the whole matter In mens Courts God hath appointed every matter should be established by the mouth of two or three witnesses Deut. 19 15. After the same manner the more are sent that the matter might be more confirmed and humane infirmity regarded provided for Now might the Prophet try his right by Law with the Angell if he had deceived or the thing foretold him should not com to passe The place where they stood was at the bank of the river one at one side of the bank and the other on the other side and the river was Hiddikel as we learne by the 10. chap. verse 4. the third river of Paradise Gen. 2.14 It is not certainly knowne whether the Prophet were bodily present by this river or the sight thereof were afoarded him after a prophetical manner If it be this there is some great matter in it why this alone should be offered to his very viewe above all the rest but if he were bodily present which I rather thinke Daniels company flying away for feare chap. 10.7 neither can it be without cause that he maketh mention rather of the river then of the region and country And we shall see assuredly that of the fowre visions which were shewed to Daniel three of them were at the waters And not without good cause when as visions doe foreshew the affaires of nations and people to be done in ages to come and waters do both lively resemble the troublesome tempests of worldly businesses with the variable and inconstant condition of people and also thereunto are frequently used in scripture as in Ezech. 26.19 When I shall make thee a desolate cittie by bringing up the deepe upon thee and great waters shall cover thee But waters doe d●ffer according to the diversity of the things thereby signified In the first vision the fowre Windes of heaven strove upon the great sea and fowre great beasts came up from the sea chap. 7.2.3 because as the Sea is the collection gathering together of waters so there was intreated of the matters of all people which should all be disturbed with these fowre Kingdoms The second vision was at Vlai no sea but only a river unknowne not famous not sett out with any note at all of any excellencie so in that vision the Empire of the whole world was not intreated off but some particular nations the Medes Persians and Grecians in which the prophecy stoppeth his narration as it were in some creek of a great sea and a river drawne and derived out of the deep chap. 8.2 The last vision was at Hiddikel a particular River also but such a one as flowed out of Paradise evē as the matters therin handled doe specially respect a particular people but holy elect whose spring originall doth come out of Paradise the infinite grace of a mercifull God which runneth thence along thorow the stock of the holie Patriarchs in all ages as it were thorough a channell The former visions were also shewed for the Churches sake onely but they declared flourishing nations First the fowre great Monarches afterward the Medes Persians Grecians This alone sheweth the full deliverance of the holy people and therefore they were given at the sea and unknowne waters like to people of no account with God but this was given at the holie River that he might more lively set before our eyes the condition of that auncient holy people by the election of grace Such a River therfore is it Now the Angels doe not stand both on one side but are severally placed and keep both the bankes because God defends this people on every side by his Angels to whom he hath given in charge not onely to be carefull of some of their matters and careles of the rest but to perfect all things which doe concerne the safetie of his elect This is a great comfort in time of so long a divorce when they understand that their God careth for thē and that there remaineth a seed of election amongst them though the blind world seeth