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of the beast, wh4^| have passed over to make war with the Lamb, and^| usurped the glorious holy mountain for the taber-^| naclc of their palaces, ore there confederated and^f encamped in order to resist the children of Israd from entering upnn their rightful territory \ and ift^^ order to occupy ihat gloriouft throne which be-^^ longeth only to the spiritual David, even Messiah our Prinee. And 1 judge, in the second place^j that the^kJngfiof the East, of whom such hoooui able mention is slways made, stand in the si of Joshua's army, and David's army, to take human part of Uie conflicl. and witness the great IVVJ) THt DUTINC OP or THE £VPt|IIAT£S. 979 demoDStrfition of the power of the Laiub* und tbc firftt glorious act cf his reappearing; iq which caac they muflt cither he beticvmg Jew6, who have beea previously converted uato the Lord, and brought up out or the house cf bondage in the £ast, and etnbautod to suUain tUe fury of tbo fiH'Conqnonng warfare of the W'e^t, and behold his 6niil oveithfow; — or they must be some Chm- Uan power which bath no part with the Apostasy, hut standeth up agat»Ht it; anil hearing uf its usurpations, britii^tb up bravi'ly aud gallantly from the Ea»t an army of good and true men, to be employed by the Lord in hU overthrow, and for their faithfulaess to witnese the mighty acts of the Lord : and there U only one Cbriatian power tn all this world which could fulhl such a clffittny, ami the ftuhjects of that power have in- deed become as kings of the East. But however much my heart might desire to take this honour to my beloved country, I do rather iaclioe to the former idea, that the^e kings of the East arc the Jtwifth tribes and people, who arc now, some scattered, and Home lost, among tho nations of the East, and whom Gud, ere Ih^t lime, shall have gathered iato one. and be briaging up a mighty army to serve hicn in the day of his great battle. And this Idofor ficveralrea«on.s: Ftrit, because 1 find it to he exprc»»ly writtcu of that day of Lbc Lord in which " all the nations are gathered againat Jerusalem to battle:" not only that tlie Lord sliall go forth and fight against those nations, as when he fouf^ht ia the day of battle, but that *' Judah alsoshall fight at Jerusalem,*' and po&aess the wealth of the heathen* (Zech, xiv, 2--14,) — And again, 1 find that m that «amc day of dure QBftr THE DftvtNo UP or rnt EuriiiiATri. [i>tt. to me a kingdom of jiriests;" which priesthood io the limes io come w nut aflfir AarunV, but Mel chindec s