A17641:375
Commentaries of the divine John Calvin, upon the prophet Daniel, translated into English, especially…Commentaries of the diuine Iohn Caluine, vpon the prophet Daniell, translated into Englishe, especially…
Commentaries of the divine John Calvin, upon the prophet Daniel, translated into English, especially for the use of the family of the right honourable Earle of Huntingdon, to set forth as in a glass, how one may profitably read the Scriptures, by considering the text, meditating the sense thereof, and by prayerCommentaries of the diuine Iohn Caluine, vpon the prophet Daniell, translated into Englishe, especially for the vse of the family of the ryght honorable Earle of Huntingdon, to set forth as in a glasse, how one may profitably read the Scriptures, by consideryng the text, meditatyng the sense therof, and by prayer
London: printed by John Daye, 1570London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1570
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2 And Beltsazar whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring him the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had brought from the temple in Jerusalem, that the king and his princes, his wife and his concubines might drink therein.
2 And Beltsazar whiles hee tasted the wyne, commaunded to bryng him the golden and siluer vessels which hys father Nebuchadnezer had brought from the temple in Ierusalem, that the kyng and his princes, his wife and his concubines might drinke therin.
Here the king Beltsazar doth hasten his punishment, because he furiously provoketh the wrath of God against him self, as though it were tedious unto him, that God did differ his judgement so long. And this is it which I have said, that the wicked when the fall of the house draweth near,1 they lift up the posts and the gates, as Solomon saith. Therefore when God will execute his judgements, he driveth the reprobate by his secrete instinction, that they might as it were, run willingly, and procure to them selves a swift destruction. This did Beltsazar. His security ⟨p. 72⟩and carelessness was a sign of astonishment: and this was a token of the wrath of God, when he could be so carelessly given to pleasure in his adversity and in the mids of perils: but this excecation doth more clearly show forth the vengeance of God, that he not being content with his intemperance in feasting and banqueting without all regard of the time, doth even make battle openly against God. Therefore saith he: he commanded the silver and golden vessels to be brought unto him which Nebuchadnezzar had taken away.