Daniels, and Ezechiels prophecies, concerning Christ, and his Church. CHAP. 34.
NOw in the captiuity it selfe (a) Daniel and (b) Ezechiel, two of the greater prophets prophecied first. Daniel fore-told the very number of yeares vntill the comming of Christ, and his passion. It is too tedious to perticularize, and o∣thers haue done it before vs. But of his power and glorie; this he sayd: I beheld a vision by night, and behold, the sonne of man came in the cloudes of heauen, and ap∣proached * 1.1 vnto the ancient of daies, and they brought him before him and hee gaue him dominion and honor, and a Kingdome, that all people, nations and languages should serue him; his dominion is an euerlasting dominion, and shall neuer bee tane away: his King∣dome shall neuer be destroied: Ezechiel also prefiguring Christ by Dauid (as the prophets vse) because Christ tooke his flesh, and the forme of a seruant from Da∣uids * 1.2 seed: in the person of GOD the Father doth thus prophecy of him. I will set vppe a sheapheard ouer my sheepe, and hee shall feed them, euen my seruant Dauid, hee shall feed them and be their sheapheard. I the Lord wilbe their God, and my seruant Dauid shalbe Prince amongst them: I the LORD haue spoaken it. And againe: One * 1.3 King shalbe King to them all: they shalbe no more two peoples, nor bee deuided from thence-forth into two Kingdomes: nor shall they bee any more polluted in their Idols, nor with their abhominations, nor with all their transgressions: but I will saue them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they haue sinned, and will cleanse them: they shalbe my people and I wilbe their GOD: and Dauid my seruant shalbe King ouer them, and they all shall haue one sheapheard.
L. VIVES.
DAniel (a)] Hee was one of the capti•…•…ed sonnes of Iudah, and so Daniel, was named * 1.4 Balthazar▪ by the Kings Eunuch that had charge of the children. His wisdome made