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After twelve months (saith Daniel) that is, twelve months after God had warned this king by dreams and by Daniel, to repent his sins, he was strutting in his galleries, and thought what sin should be next, as though he had never heard of dream or Prophet.

After twelue moneths (saith Daniel) that is, twelue moneths after God had warned this king by dreames and by Daniel, to repent his sinnes, he was strouting in his galleries, and thought what sin should be next, as though he had neuer heard of dreame or Prophet.

By this computation of sin, wherein the months are observed so exactly, how long Nebuchadnezzar rebelled after he was warned, Daniel shows what reckoning GOD keeps of our months, and weeks, and days, which he gives us to repent, as he did Nebuchadnezzar, and what an account we shall make of them, as Nebuchadnezzar did, though we count no more of our age then the child doth of his youth, and have done no more of our task at twenty, then when we were but ten, nor at thirty, then when we were but twenty, nor at forty, then when we were thirty, yet we shall give account of mo ⟨p. 386⟩hours in the day of judgement, and it shall be heavier to the old then to the young, to you which have the word, then to them which want it: and there is great odds between Nebuchadnezzar & us for he which challenged Nebuchadnezzar for twelve months since he was warned, may challenge us of twelve years since we were warned, & yet we look not for so great punishment as fell upon Nebuchadnezzar for twelve months. Daniel names there twelve months, as though he would speak of a great matter, and shows how worthy Nebuchadnezzar was to be punished, because he might have reformed his life since he was warned: for there were 12. months between his dreams and his punishment. But that year wherein he had so many warnings & teachings was as vain as the rest, and vainer then the years before: for now he should have been a mourner like the King of Nineveh, when Jonah threatened destruction unto them. But like a victor of a country returned from battle to solemnize his triumph, first he decked his palace as brave as himself, and then he walks his stations in it, and when he hath set all things before him, which might make him forget God, and like a serpent that would burst, unless he discharged some of his poison, he breaketh out and said, Is not this great Babel, which I have