John Trapp on Daniel 3:5
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Daniel3:5
Ver. 5. That at what time ye hear] See on ver. 1. The allurements of pleaſure are ſhrewd enticements to idolatry, 2 Pet. 2.18. Sr. Walter Rawleigh ſaid, Were I to chuſe a religion to gratify the fleſh, I would choſe Popery. The Catholikes in their Supplication to King James for a Toleration, plead that their religion is (inter caetera) ſo confortable to natural ſenſe and reaſon, that it ought to be imbraced! A proper argument. I have read of a Lady in Paris that when ſhe ſaw the bravery of a Proceſſion to a Saint, ſhe cryed out, Oh, how fine is our religion, beyond that of the Hugenots!
That at what time ye heare the ſound] So in the Papacy, when the Ave-Mary-bell rings, which is at Sun-riſing, at noon, and at Sun-ſetting, all men in what place ſoever, houſe, field, ſtreet, or market,Spec. Europ. do preſently kneel down and ſend up their united devotions by an Ave-Maria.
Ye fall down and worſhip] This is all is required; de certa confeſſionis forma imperata, ne gry.
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