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them before Israel, and slew them with a px^at slaughter atGibeon, and chaced them alon^ the way that goelh up to Bcth-horon, and smote them to Azckah, and unio Makkcdah ; and it came to pa&s, as they fled from before Is- rael, and were in the going down to lleth-horon, Uial the Lord cast down ^^reat htonc« from heaven upon them unto Azekabj and tb^y died: they 976 THl UUVIXC UP or the Ei^FHRATtS^ [Ou were more \«bicb died with tukilstoocs than tfacy wliofn th^ children of Israel slew wiih ihc sword.'' latliisAefond iJlu^tratLi^n, or rather, to speak mo correctly, in tliU foreord^iined type of thegre di5Com6ture of the ten kin^ who, uoder bev^t, fihM re«»t theenierinir in ofourJoi^u iDthebatil<^of Antiai^ddoii.wc h&vcalsoa oatu sword, and a supernatural power, which con our jnterprelalion that these kinga of the Eas with that host from the North, whatercr these ma he, shall he the natural Sattrumenta in the ha of a supernatural Power, visibly put forth to di oomfit the beast and ttie faUe prophet, and kings of t)ie earth and their armies, in tbift g battle of God Almighty. These kings of the Eaut, for the expedition whose march the great river Eupfarateft is drir up, arc therefore no straugcrs in the prupheti history, and do ever make their appearance at tb same exact point of time in the day of the Lord' vengeance, and in tlio year of his redeemed, th year of recompences for the controTcr^y of Zion and DOW that we have the support of ao many passagcsof Scripture concerning the nature of thri employment, to iihich 1 would add this other Ifta, xlvi< II : "Calling a ravenous bird from the East ; the man that executeth my coupkoI, from a far counir>";" and perceiving so constantly in Uaiah that CyruA is the typeofthe Lat^tcrn power which in to appear in Ihf* latter day of the wind- ing np of God's jitd){ments upon the apostate church ; we are not at any lo»ia to a^ic^n the pre- ciaeend of the preparation of their way by the drying up of Euphrates. We have seen that it not to destroy Babylon, the mother of fornicatio ^ IV;] THE DUVtSO UP OF THC tVPIlKATlfS- 977 which hath been already deeUoyed by ihe ten kings nf the earih, with whom she committed whoredom; but to meet in battle Ibat cjghth and Uiit bead of the beaat, unto whom the t^n kings hAve g:iven their power Tor one hour, in order that be may make war with the Lamb, by usnrpitig to himself that universal power and office of Prophet, Pmst, and Kin^, in Zion, with which the ADcient of Day« hath invested his