The great providence of God, and his singular mercie toward his Church are most lively here set forth, who never leaveth his destitute, but now in their greatest miseries and afflictions giveth them Prophets, as Ezekiél, and Daniél, whom he adorned with such graces of his holie spirit, that Daniél above all other had most special revelations of such things as should come to the Church, even from the time that they were in captivity, to the last end of the world, and to the general resurrection, as of the four Monarchs and empires of all the world, to wit, of the Babylonians, Persians, Grecians, and Romaines. Also of the certain number of the times even unto Christ, when all ceremonies and sacrifices should cease, because he should be the accomplishment thereof: moreover he sheweth Christ’s office and the cause of his death which was by his sacrifice to takeaway sins, and to bring everlasting life. And as from the beginning God ever exercised his people under the cross, so he teacheth here, that after that Christ is offered, he will still leave this exercise to his Church until the dead rise again, and Christ gather his into h is kingdom in the heavens.