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order: tha: is« kinjg^ und prie^u, powe and holiness in unioo and conibiiiation. But it i still more manifest from tlie language of the xlv Psalm, where it iu vrrittcii conccrmng the kin ^' daugiitor, the betrothed ^vife oi his son; not otd that kind's dau^'hters shall be amongst hirr bouciur able woanen^ and thai there ^hall stand upon bt right hand the queen in gold of Ophir; but aUo, "instead of thy tutherfi fihall be thy childreor whom thou maye»t make priiices id all the earth; in KfcrCBce to which, the high privileges prerogatives of the Jewish nation, the Apost Peter saitli nf u» wh(.> have been gralTed into tbe^ fame root, that we are a royal priesthood and an holy nation. On all these accounts, I think we. cannot refuee to give to them tbo hunour which is their due, and to believe that these kings of East, for whom the way i^ prepared by the drj'ing up of the waters of Enphriites, are uo uth«r tbaa the seed of the house of Israel, by whom Uie Lord is to work in a signal manner the overthrow of the AntichrJKtitn power, and Apostate nations the Wcet. Yet, while 1 adopt this interpretation, I do not reject thcotber, but do believe mo»lcartftinly, that ait»i)ii^Ht ether ^reat etidit atiil purposes for which the Lord hath given to this t:atioa such great and Eoighty empire in :he East, driven on and extend- ed by an unseen and Almighty hand, most marvel-' loufity : one end, and perhaps the chief one, is in order that wh(^n the Lr>rti %h;dl bring the seed n Israel from the East, and gather them from the weal, when be shall say to the aorth, Oive up ; aod^l to the south. Keep not back ; the ships of Chittim^ IV^ THk DRriWG DPOPTtfK KUFHRATEA. 98S maybe ready, snd tli« army uf the pt^oplc tbat feareth the I^rd may be reajdy to briog hia &om from fAT, and hts dtughtcrs from th^ endft of the earth. To which hope 1 am the more iaclined by the study of the history of the British empire in India, xrhich 1 jud|?e tu be the inij>i1 extnturdniary work of Divine Providence upon record, carried oa s^insC our will, against our policy, in order Utski under ourfect, under the feet ot the only una poEtate Protestant Chhatian nation, he might lay the ban* oeraof Mohammed, of Bratnah, andofBudhu, and give our nrmieA to trample upon their ciinftccrated capttals^aiid uur aoldiej'a lo warshtp lb t? Lord Jef^ua* Christ ID their pagoda- tt-mpleft. Aiid now, behold, after havinjT used the sword of our mii;fhty aod valiant men to overthrow the glory of their idola- triea« be is be^nnini:, in a moat marve