Daniel 3:13-18

There needs no comment on these verses, only to observe, that the dreadful fury of the enemies of God and of his Christ, have been always the same, as in the instance of this man. Reader! have you never seen, (I have, and remarked it also), the bitterness of the most hellish malice belching out of the mouths of the haters of the saints in their accusations against them. And have you not seen, on the other hand, that spirit of meekness, such as those saints of God manifested under the crimination of their foes? Oh! what cannot grace accomplish? How tranquil were their minds, opposed to the rage of the King, and what an answer did they give: if it be so, that is, if our God doth not interpose to save us from thy wrath, it is not because he cannot, but because it is for His greater glory, and our advantage, that he should not. Oh! how perfect that peace the soul is kept in, when in such trying seasons, the soul leans wholly on God's sure mercy in Christ! Isaiah 26:3.