John Trapp on Daniel 6:20

Ver. 20. And when he came to the den, he cryed with a lamentable voyce] With a piteous diſtreſſed voice: far otherwiſe then did Daniel, ver. 21. who choſe rather to be caſt into the den of Lyons, then to carry about a Lyon in his boſom, an inraged conſcience, as did Darius here, and afterwards Theodoricus King of Italy, who had cauſed B[illegible: 2 letters]tius and Symmachus to be unjuſtly beheaded, but carried the horrour of it to his grave. How good is it therefore to keep the bird in the boſom alwayes ſinging as Daniel did; and as thoſe primitive Chriſtians, who choſe rather ad leonem projici quam ad leno[illegible: 1 letter]e[illegible: 2 letters], to be thrown to Lyons without,Tertul. then to be left to luſts within, ſuch fleſhly luſts as war againſt the ſoul, 1 Pet. 2.11. againſt the peace of it principally.

Is thy God whom thou ſerveſt continually] A fair deal better then did Cardinal Wolſey, who yet, when he came in a morning out of his privy chamber, moſt commonly heard two Maſſes: and what buſineſſe ſoever he had in the day-time (when he was Lord Chancellour) he would not go to bed with any part of his ſervice unſaid, no not ſo much as one Collect. Nevertheleſs, The life and death of Cardinal Wolſey. p. 18. Semetipſum deteſtatus e[illegible: 1 letter]t quod Regi potius quam Deo placere ſtuduiſſet. Scult. when he was ſent for up by Henry the eighth to be put into the Tower, he bewailed himſelf and ſaid, that if he had been as careful to ſerve God, as he ever was to pleaſe the King, it would have been much better with him. To be a ſervant of the living God is an argument of ſa[illegible: 2 letters]cty, chap. 3.17.