Commentaries 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

Daniel doth declare that the power of God was mani∣fest to the heathen men, both to the king himselfe and to his courtyers, who had conspired vnto the death of these holy persons. He sayth therefore that the king trembled at this msracle: like as God many times compelleth the wic∣ked to acknowledge his power. How so euer they do amase themselues and harden all their senses, yet will they nill they, they are compelled to féele Gods power. Daniel de∣clareth that this came to passe to king Nebuchadnezer. He trembled therefore and did arise hastely and spake vnto hys counsellers, saying: Haue wee not cast three men bounde into the fornace? And they answered, it is so. Where it is no doubt, but that both Nebuchadnezer was compelled by Gods secret inspiration thus to demaunde, and they al∣so thus to confesse. For Nebuchadnezer might haue come streight way to the fornace, but God would wring this confession out of his enemies mouthes, that they together with their king should graunt, that Sadrach, Mesach, and Abednego were deliuered by no earthly meanes, but by a rare and meruelous power of God. Let vs note therfore that the wicked were witnesses of Gods power, not wil∣lingly, but because God dyd put into the kinges mouth this question, and also because he did not suffer them to speake any thing but the truth.