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own Son. To withstand this personal auti-Ctirist, and heid of the cinpirCt when he shall have taken to himscir those prero- gatives of power which are ordained in the pro* phecy for Christ only; to lake him alive, and to give his armies for meat uuto the fowls of heaven; this i& the firet object and end of their vocatiofi» as it was of Cyrus their type, to humble Bclte- shazzar and his thousand loi'd», in that hour when they feasted like gods otit of the holy vensels which were consecrated to tlie service of rlie Ood of heaven; and rioted together, exaUirtg above Jehovah, their gods of gold and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. Afler which, as whoa Cyrus had obtained the kingdom, it was amongst tlic first of his acts to issue a decree for the Jewish people to gouptotheirovvriland, and rebuitd their city and their temple ; for which end also, the Lord hud called him by his name more than a hundred years before; so 1 judge that the coming of these kings of the East, whoever they he, will prepare the way for thedohverance of the Jewish people from under the yoke of the iofidc! anti- Chri^tt, aiHl of hi^t kiiig^, and for their restoration to their own eity and land And as the dryiug up of the real Euphrates before the armiefi of Cyrus was not to deittroy Babyloo, which he rather b^utiAed, 978 TEIK i>uri»o UP or tuh hupuhatsg. [■D£''i^| ud thither transplanted the scat or his empire ;H but of siibvcrtiDg that iJolfttrous dynasty, and libe^f rating the people of God; *io have we ibe drying »p^| of the iny«tical Euphrates before the kings of tbl^| East, out to destroy the iDystical Babylon^ buE tO^| subvert tllepen^>Qal ami Christ, who had obtaine4^| the master)' over it, and to liberate the people of^| God, wlio have fio long been galled with ix^ yoke^^| and bring them up to their land of promise. Aim1^| to my mind thv two prophetic similitudes of tbi^H strange work of the Lord s wraib, do well Afjc^ee^^l to wit, firet the discomfiture of the ten kings iM^M Gibeon> by tlie sword of Jo»hua and tbe htil-^| stones of heaven, because they did hinder tfa^^| choflen people from entering ftirtbcr than the akirta^^ of the promised land ;— *and eecondly» the brekk-^| ing in pieces of tlie Philistine confederacy, by t^^^l sword of David and the breaking forih of God^H because ibcy would have related l>avid's pcac(y^| able entering to his throne, for which be bad lon^H wailed. It doih look to my mind a^ exceediuglr^| probable, in the first place, that the powers n^H Babylon under the headfdiip