0 The great prouidence of God, and his singular mercie toward his Church are moste liuely here set forthe, who neuer leaueth his destitute, but now in their greatest miseries and afflictions giueth them Prophetes, as Ezekiel, & Daniel, whome he adorned with such graces of his holie spirit, that Daniel aboue all other had moste special reuelations of suche things as shulde come to the Church, euen from the time that thei were in captiuitie, to the last end of the worlde, and to the general resurrection, as of the foure Monarches and empires of all the worlde, to wit, of the Babylonians, Persians, Grecians, & Romaines. Also of the certeine nombre of the times euen vnto Christ, when all ceremoneis and sacrifices shulde cease because he shulde be the accomplishment thereof: moreouer he sheweth Christes office and the cause of his death which was by his sacrifice to take awaye sinnes, and to bring euerlasting life, And as from the beginning God euer exercised his people vnder the crosse, so he teacheth here, that after that Christ is offred, he wil stil leaue this exercise to his Church vntil the dead rise againe, and Christ gather his into his kingdome in the heauens.