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Mine understanding was restored unto me, &c. That which was first taken away, was first restored again, which so soon as it was gone, he was counted a man no more, but a beast. As David saith, Like Horse and Mule which have no understanding. Psalm 32. 9. counting them which are void of understanding to better then horse and mule. Therefore they which have lost their understanding at the Taverns, as many here have done sometimes, & they which understand not yet what is the book of God, are but horse and mule, though they bear the visors of men.

Mine vnderstanding was restored vnto me, &c. That which was first taken away, was first restored againe, which so soone as it was gone, he was counted a man no more, but a beast. As Dauid sayth, Like Horse and Mule which haue no vnderstanding. Psalme 32. 9. counting them which are voide of vnderstanding to better then horse and mule. Therefore they which haue lost their vnderstāding at the Tauerns, as many here haue done somtimes, & they which vnderstād not yet what is the booke of God, are but horse and mule, though they beare the visors of men.

After he had said, Mine understanding was restored to me, he annexeth, Mine honour was restored to me, so he grew to a king again: as he was wont to put on one robe after another when he was a King, so when GOD would make him a king again, first he puts upon him the robe of understanding as it were the foundation of a king, like the principal spirit which came upon Saul, the first ⟨p. 414⟩of Samuel 10. 9. And when he had a princes heart, then GOD gave him a Princes power, and proclaimed like a voice from Heaven, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel: so gloriously he rose again like the Sun, with a triumph of his restitution, & welcome of his subjects, like the shout which went before Solomon. 1. King. 1. 34. One would think when Nebuchadnezzar was a King, GOD would never have made him like a beast, nor after made him again a king: for who would suffer a beast to rule over them, seeing such stomachs are in men, that they will hardly endure any rulers. Therefore it is strange that these men would suffer one to rule over them that had been 7. years like a beast; it is even as if one had lien 7. years in the grave, and after come to challenge his house and goods from them which have it in possession, and count it their own: I think such a one should have so cold a suite, that unless it were some few that loved him, while he lived he might go again to his grave for a house to dwell in: so no body looketh now for Nebuchadnezzar to come out of the wilderness, he was the unlikelyest man in the world to be King after such a change: but see what God can do, though all be against it; he which made a king like a beast, raised a king of a beast.