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I do appoint him a constant and fixed possession of land in Israel, for a royal maintenance of him and his family; and my princes and governors shall not be put, for want of a due and settled provision, to raise means to themselves, by the oppression of my people.

XLVI. 1. Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

The east gate of the third wall, which is of the Court of the Priests, wherein the temple was built, shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath, and on the first day of the month, which is the day of the new moon, it shall be opened.

XLVI. 2. And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priest shall prepare his burnt-offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate.

And the prince only shall enter by the way of that gate; and, when he is to enter, shall stand at the post of that gate, until the priest shall have prepared his burnt offering and peace offering; and then, when they have made this safe way for him, he shall come in, having first bowed down and worshipped at the threshold of the gate.

XLVI. 3. Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new

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Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the Lord; but they shall not presume to enter in by it; only they shall bow and worship aloof at that door, on the sabbaths and new moons.

XLVI. 10. And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth.

And the prince shall observe the same times of my service with my people; both for his coming in, and for his going forth.

XLVI. 20. That they bear them not out into the outer court, to sanctify the people.

There they shall boil the trespass offering, and bake the meat offering; that they bear them not out into the outer court, where the people are allowed to assemble, as if the common sort of people should share with them in their sanctification, since this privilege of these holy services rests in their own persons.

XLVII. 1. Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.

Afterward, this heavenly and divine guide of mine brought me back from this outer court, where were the boiling houses of the sacrifices, unto the door of the temple; and, behold, from under that door, by which the glory of God had formerly entered, and which was now shut, there issued a stream of waters; to signify the plenty of graces, which are derived from God to his Church; which are yet raised by degrees, and, from shallow and weak beginnings, arise to great height and perfection. So vs. 2, 3, 4, 5. XLVII. 7. Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.

And, to shew the plentiful fruit that arises from these graces of his Church and Children, behold, upon the bank of this holy and spiritual stream, there were many and fruitful trees growing on both sides thereof.

XLVII. 8. Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.

These waters shall pass through the whole land; for they shall flow towards the east country, which is the higher part of Judea, and from thence into the champaign country thereof; and so fall into the sea, whose unwholesome waters shall be therewith healed: even so shall the sanctifying graces of God's Spirit be enlarged over his whole Church, throughthe world; and shall sweeten and season all the souls, that shall be therewith endued.

XLVII. 9. And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live : and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed: and every thing shall live, whither the river cometh.

And it shall come to pass, that all those, which shall be partakers of these holy graces, shall live for ever; and there shall be very great increase of all good works and conscionable obedience, wheresoever they shall be found. So also verse 12.

XLVII. 10. And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it, from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.

And it shall come to pass, that my Church shall be plentifully stored with holy and able teachers, which are fishers of men; and they shall spread abroad their wholesome doctrines all over the earth; and they shall take large draughts of souls, which shall, by their ministry, be converted to me.

XLVII. 11. But the miry places thereof and the marshes thereof shall not be healed: they shall be given to salt.

But those, which are resolutely wicked, and given up to a reprobate sense, they shall not be reformed or bettered by these means of salvation; but shall be left to their wonted obduredness and corruption, and so to their final condemnation.

XLVII. 15. And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad; &c.

And the extent of my Church shall be so enlarged, as that it shall reach all the world over, even from one end of the world to the other; which I would have to be figured, by the extending of the bounds of this re-promised land toward the north, from the Mediterranean Sea all along the coasts of the kingdom of Damascus. So also verses 16, 17, 18, 19, 20.

XLVIII. 8. And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts, &c.

And, bordering upon the inheritance or possession of Judah, shall be, from the east to the west, that portion of five and twenty thousand reeds, which is set apart for the sanctuary and the priests, &c.

XLVIII. 15. And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, &c.

Of that ground, that is thus separated for public use, which is twenty-five thousand reeds, ten thousand reeds being set apart for the Priests, and ten thousand for the Levites, there will be five thousand remaining in the breadth thereof for secular use, even for the building of the city, &c.

XLVIII. 19. And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel.

And those, that are appointed for the public service and ministration of the city, shall not only be employed in the attendance of the ordinary inhabitants thereof, but shall be serviceable to all that shall resort thither, from all the tribes of Israel.

XLVIII. 20. All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand ye shall offer the holy oblation four square, with the possession of the city.

All the portion, that shall be set apart for these holy uses, shall be five and twenty thousand reeds square; the length being equal to the breadth; that parcel of the ground for the city being taken into the measure.

XLVIII. 30. And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures.

And these are the utmost limits or reach of the grounds belonging to the city, of the north side forty-five thousand measures, &c.

DANIEL.

I. 2. Which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god: and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.

Which he carried into the land of Chaldea, to the temple of his false god; not so much for the ordinary use of his priests as to be laid up for monuments in the treasure house that pertained to his idol god, even Bel, the god of the Babylonians, Assyrians, and Persians.

I. 4. And such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace.

Such as might be fit, both for birth and person and parts, to be attendants upon the king's person.

I. 8. But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs, that he might not defile himself.

But Daniel, finding by the change of their names that there was no other meant but a change of their religion and manners, resolved to hold his own holy courses; and determined in himself, not to eat of those Babylonian dishes, that were prepared for him by the prince of the eunuchs: which he could not possibly do, without much danger of defilement; since, both their meat and manner of dressing, had in them much contrariety to the law of God; therefore he requested the prince of the eunuchs, that he might enjoy the liberty of his conscience, and might not be pressed to the use of a prohibited diet.

I. 19. Therefore stood they before the king.

They were specially appointed, therefore, to wait upon the king's person.

II. 1. And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.

In the second year after Daniel and his fellows were admitted to the attendance of Nebuchadnezzar, the king Nebuchadnezzar dreamed a divinatory and perplexed dream, wherewith he was much disquieted; both, for the matter of the dream, and for the loss of it out of his memory; the thought whereof did so afflict him, that his sleep departed from him.

II. 5. The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye, &c.

I have utterly forgotten the thing that I dreamed, which, for the time, did exceedingly affect me: now then, that, which I require of you, is, to recal to my thoughts the dream that I had and to give me the interpretation of it, &c.

II. 9. For ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed.

Ye have intended only to delude me with lying and dilatory answers, until some other occasions may divert me from this earnest inquiry.

II. 22. The light dwelleth with him.

With him, and in him, is all perfection of knowledge, and power of illumination.

II. 39. And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.

After thy line is expired, there shall arise another kingdom of the Medes and Persians, who shall sway the sceptre; yet so, as they shall not arise to that glory and magnificence, which thou hast attained these are the breast and arms of silver, which thou sawest joined to the golden head of thine empire. And after this succession of government is ended, there shall come a third kingdom in the place thereof, which shall be that of the Grecians; less glorious and excellent than the other of the Medes, which shall be as brass, in comparison of their silver or thy gold; the extent of which third empire shall reach to the rule of the whole earth.

II. 40. And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.

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The fourth kingdom shall be that, which shall arise out of the division of the Grecian Monarchy, upon the death of Alexander the Great; in which the several kings of Asia the Less, and Syria, and Egypt shall bear the sway: but especially that of Seleucus Nicanor, which shall have the rule of Syria and Babylonia, and shall overtop the rest, and offer most violence to the Church of God; which shall be as the legs of iron, in respect of strength and hardness; for, as iron breaketh all things in pieces, so shall this tyrannical government crush and extremely oppress God's people.

II. 41. And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potter's clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.

And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of clay, and part of iron, it foreshews to thee the same fourth kingdom, divided in itself, and in process of time weakened and sensibly abated of the former power: the iron of it figures strength and power; but the clay, fragility and weakness.

II. 42. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.

And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so those substitutions and under-governments, which shall be subordinated to this fourth kingdom, shall be of a mistempered mixture; some of them strong and able to subsist; others, weak and brittle.

II. 43. And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

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