The saints inheritance and the worldlings portion representing the glorious condition of a child…

First, to show what a vast difference there is between those that are godly, & those that are wicked. Many things I might show that the Scripture expresseth of wicked ones in all their glory: let all the glory of the world be put upon them, yet the Scripture speaks exceedingly contemptuously of them. I must not spend time in those expressions, only one, and that is Daniel. And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not ⟨p. 148⟩give the honour of the Kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the Kingdom by flatteries. Daniel 11.21. It is spoken (as most Interpreters carry it) of Antiochus Epiphanes, he is called a vile person, we may observe that David doth here more fully set out the love and affection he bears towards those that fear God by the contrary effect of hatred wherewith he doth prosecute the wicked, as in the 4. v. of this Psalm, & in the 4. vers. of the foregoing Psalm, the Psalmist saith, In whose eyes a vile person is contemned, but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. Psalm. 15.4. Of this Antiochus there are three things observed, yet he is called a vile person. First, he was a great enemy to many sins. Secondly, when the Jews wrote to him, because they feared his wrath, he being a persecutor of the Jews; there were some that lived in Samaria that were Samaritans that wrote to him to desire his favour, that were not their own selves Jews, but Samaritans: and Josephus saith, they ⟨p. 149⟩wrote to him in this stile, To Antiochus, &c. Antiochus the mighty God; they gave him this title of honour. He was a great man on earth accounted where he lived; among the Samaritans, a mighty god; yet the Scripture calls him a vile person. And then his name Epiphanes, which is as much as illustrious or glorious. He hath that title of almighty god, and illustrious, and glorious, and yet he was a vile person. Thus it is, where God sees not the work of grace.

First, to shew what a vast difference there is between those that are godly, & those that are wicked. Many things I might shew that the Scripture expresseth of wicked ones in all their glory: let all the glory of the world be put upon them, yet the Scripture speaks exceedingly contemptuously of them. I must not spend time in those expressions, onely one, and that is Daniel. And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not