CONTENTS
The dedication of a golden image for worship, is appointed by
Nebuchadnezzar; the people commanded to bow before it: the Jews are
accused of neglecting it, and are cast into the furnace, but
miraculously delivered.
Daniel 3:1
It is not said when this event took place. One should think it... [ Continue Reading ]
We have here the prosecution of this impious design. Reader! would it
be believed, if fact had not proved it so, that men possessing reason,
should fall down to so ridiculous a figure, as a lifeless, helpless,
unconscious mass of metal? To be sure, it must have been an enormous
figure, threescore cu... [ Continue Reading ]
It is very evident, that the whole design of this new dunghill God set
up, was, with a view to criminate the faithful Jews. And as upon the
late occasion, at the instance of Daniel; those three men were
advanced to high honors in Babylon, against those the deadly bow was
leveled. I pray the Reader t... [ Continue Reading ]
There needs no comment on these verses, only to observe, that the
dreadful fury of the enemies of God and of his Christ, have been
always the same, as in the instance of this man. Reader! have you
never seen, (I have, and remarked it also), the bitterness of the most
hellish malice belching out of t... [ Continue Reading ]
Ah! wretched Nebuchadnezzar! how wilt thou endure the heated furnace
of everlasting wrath! What! even if it had killed the faithful
servants of the Lord, what would have been their sufferings for a few
moments, which, in consuming, would soon have put them out of all
pain, compared to thy torments i... [ Continue Reading ]
Probably the impious wretch was struck with astonishment at the
distinguishing providence of God, that while God's servants received
no hurt, the very heat of the furnace struck dead those who had laid
their hands upon them. But what, did the fire loosen the cords, With
which Shadrach and his compan... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader! pray observe what is here said. Nebuchadnezzar is astonished,
and so are his courtiers. But is this all? Yes! for had there been
more than astonishment and any grace wrought in the heart, the
accusers of these holy men would have been punished; the King himself
would have confessed his guilt... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS
READER! can you desire a stronger explanation of what scripture
continually holds forth, between the righteous and the wicked; between
him that serveth God and him that serveth him not; than what is here
brought before us. Behold the daring impiety of the Babylonish King
and his nobles!... [ Continue Reading ]