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edia fmm llie north, combined with tbe army of Persia rn>m the etist; and, having taken Bab}^^ loo, garo to a part of the captires permissioo flf return to their own land. This, I allow, was the type of the action prophesied of, and slandcth as tbe seal of the prophecy, bcmg the carne^it of the pre- dicted deltreraiice: but it is no more than this, ^^^^ full accomplishment buing iu tht- destruction of the nnysiica) Babylon, under which hnih God's litci and bia spiritual people have suB'crcd bondage more than a thousand years. And as there is iK>rthern power both in Daniel and haiab, iog together with tbe eastern power in ibiit destruction of the spoiler atid the oppreaaor, in tbe Apocalypse do we find that the jtidgment the seventh vial which brings tlie delugo of tl wrath of Gntd for tbe controversy of Zion, i^ coi summated in a great bail out of heaven, atone of Ifae weight of a talent, which is the blem of an invading and oppressive power cvediug out of the north, to complete tbe work the Lord's anger against the opp raasora of people. The same aign is given, Uaiab xxviii, And, in the 21 st rer^e it is thus described : " Pbr IV.J THK DBVtKO UP OF TU£ £UP}IKAT£S< 975 the Lord shall rim up, as in Mount Pera^iro : he shall be wroth, as in llic valley of Gibeon, ihut he may do bis work, his strange work; and bring to pass his actp his stntiigc act/' Thia carries ua bock to two events, the former recorded la 3 Sam. V. 20; where, upon the tiire of David's coming to the throne, a confederacy of the Phi* liKtine^ is formc^d ngainU him, which he defeats, being holpcn tberciu by sume very wonderful io* terpositioo of the Divine indignation. This is the CTcnt prophetical of Armaggedon, in which our David destroys the confederacy that is formed againnt Im coming to the kingdom by the bea«t and the false prophet ; and thcrefurc it i» said, *' The I^rd shall rise up as in Mount Perazicn." And, » in the type, there wa£ both a human army and a Divine power used in the discomfiture of tbe$e Philislinea, so, though mention be made only of the Divine power in the Apocalypse, we are borne out iii our inference derived from other prin- ciples^ that there will be aUu present in the battle, helpful to the issue, these kings of the East. The latter of the two events, to which the strange work of the Lord is likened, is related in Joi^hua X. 10; where ten Icings having confederated to hinder " the captain of the Lord's hmt" from taking pos&L'ssion of the promised land, " the Lord discomfited