Now there is No Vision at the beginning, in

this discourse, but only a Prayer, and all the Vifion comes after: By which it may be underftood, that Daniel means, That Gabriel was the Perfon of whom he fays in the Vision of the firft of Belshazzar, "I came near unto one of Dan. vit them that stood by, and ask'd him the Truth 16. of all this, fo he told me, and made me know the Interpretation of the Things.

And this is the first Vision, or the Vision at the beginning, in order of Time, which Daniel is faid to have had peculiarly to himself, tho' he interpreted the Visions of others before, and accordingly it is faid, In the third Tear of the Reign of King Belshazzar, a Vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the firft. Which must be that in the feventh Chapter.

In the fame manner it is, that St. John in the clofe of the Revelations fpeaks of Gabriel and Michael, tho' in other Words, when he says,

The Lord God of the Holy Prophets fent his Angel to shew unto his Servants the Things which C

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cap viii.

Pev.xxii

muft shortly be done, And afterwards, Iefuss Vcf. 16, have fent mine Angel. to teflific unto you these Things in the Churches:

chap. v. 2, 5, 9.

chap. 8.

And indeed, as the Lamb alone was worthy to Open the Book and to loafe the Seals thereof. He alone, was that Michael the great Prince, Dan. xii, who standeth up for the Children of the People, to whom Daniel belonged, and alone could answer that Question, that is proposed to him, by the other Saint, who asked that certain Saint, How long should be the Vision concerning the daily Sacrifice? &c. Where it presently after appears, that this Saint who asked the Question, was Gabriel, and he that answered it, was in all probability, the Man Cloathed in Linnen.

13.

Verf, 16.

Dan. xii

5.

A Question to the fame effect is asked him, and, in all likelihood, by the fame Person, when it is Reprefented, That "Behold, there stood "other Two, the One on this fide of the Bank "of the River, and the Other on that fide. of "the Bank of the River.

"And One faid to the Man cloathed in Linnen, which was upon the Waters of the River,, "How

How long hall it be to the End of thefe
VVonders ?

I.

Where it must be Obferved, That the word Tranflated Other, in Verfe5. may fignifie likewife the Laft, and is here to be taken in that fence, meaning Michael, (who was mentioned chap.12. juft before) and Gabriël, who had been speaking to Daniel all the while, from the end of the X Chapter till the very preceeding Verse. And when he had done fpeaking, Daniel is Reprefented as coming out of a profound Attention, which the Angel's Silence put an end to; Then, as was natural, he Looked up, and behold, there Stood thefe laft Two, &c. And in the next Verfe the Words Tranflated, Upon the Waters of the River, may be rendred, Higheft up the stream of the River, which is exactly conformable to the Original. And according to this Interpretation, the Man cloathed in Linnen, may be One of the Two in the former Verfe; and the Other is He that speaks in the beginning of the fixth Verfe, where the word [One] is put in to compleat the Senfe, but is not in the Original, and really alters C 2

the

chap.12

Heb. ix.

the Meaning. All which is perfectly conform able to the Description in the viii Chapter at the 13 and 16 Verses.

All these Descriptions perfectly agree with Our Saviour's Office of High-Priest, Of good 11, Things to come, by a greater and more perfect Tabernacle, not made with Hands; for which Reafon He is entred into Heaven it self now to appear in the Prefence of God for us. And there-fore he is the only Person who can confúlt the Spiritual Urim and Thummim, and give answer to those who are Jews by the Circumcifion of the heart.

24,

Deut.

xxxiii

8,

Rom. ii.

29,

I have been the more tedious and particular in Discovering who thofe Two Perfons (menti oned by Daniel and St. John) are, because it is a strong Argument to prove, that the Subject on which they are Reprefented, fpeaking in the same manner, in different Visions, is really the very fame Subject, and that therefore the VIII.. Chapter of Daniel is to be Explained by the fame Key with the VII and XII Chapters, 'and with the XII, XIII and XVII Chapters of St. John's Revelations. And of this Obfervation

I fhall make great Ufe, when I come to Explain the Taking away the Taily, and Setting up the Abomination that maketh Lefolate.

And now that I have enquired, Who was this Man Cloathed in Linnen, which was upon the Waters of the River, and what was the Occafion upon which he is here Reprefented in this Solemn Manner, I go on to Explain what is meant by this Expreffion.

----" When He held up His Right Hand, and Deut.xij "His Left Hand unto Heaven, and Sware by "Him that liveth forever.

xvii. 12!

The manner of a Solemn Appeal to God, by Holding up both Hands towards Heaven, was Practifed by Mofes, when the Ifraelites Fought with the Amalekites. And what follows, Ex- Exod. plains the Reafon of this Pofture; for after the Lord had promifed Mofes Utterly to Deftroy Amaleck, Mofes fays, The Lord hath Sworn, 16, That the Lord will have War with Amaleck from Generation to Generation.

In which word, the Expreffion [The Lord'

hath