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llous manner, tocvanffelize our captains and our governors in the East, that tliey may be apt to know, and under* ataiid, and ready to take part in the ultimate vvar* fare, aod la«t urruy of battle, which Khali come up from that quaner to meet the confederated apo- alate powers of the West, and to offer them up an bolocaust upon the ahur of the Lord in Jerusalem. Aod whereas, I find tliat after Joahua had dis- comfited the ten confederate kings, and the hail- atoneji oi^ the l^urd had slain ihem in the going down of BetkburoQ, he did ask of tlie Lord a strange, yea, a very strange thing, saying, " Sun» stand thou etill upon Gibcon ; and thuu, moon, in the valley of Ajolon ; wherefore, the sun stood still, and the moon slayed, until the f>eoplc aveog-^ ed themselvess upon their enemies:" the like of which bath never been htcn upon the cailh, ex- cept perhapt in the case of Hezt^kjah U]ion the eve of Sennacherib a overthrow, which is also cypi* 964 THE DRVIKO UP OF THZ F.tJfHHATU. [j ca) of the »»ii>e gn^t i^lau^ltter of Ihc Aasyri&i of the last days; T do believe lli3t in that stayuij of the revolving; sphere^ and arresting of the sqi and moon, is shadowed forth the literal fulfilnwal of tli&t almont conHtant declaration of prophecy that in the day of the great slaughter of the m tjons, the moon shall be coofouaded and the »ui afthnmed, Isa. xxW. 'J3; that in the day of Lord's vengeance, and the year of recomp^ici for the conlrOTcrsy of Zion, " all the host heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens be rolled together aa a acroK and all the nball fall down, aft the leaf Jallcth olT from thi viiR^, and a^ a falling Gg from the fig'-tree^' Iki. xxxiv. And hL're I ]>nu«e a momeot to reflect upoi %That wc have been enabled to ascertain coDcero- ing the kings from the rifting of the »iin, and exprciis my thankfulness thtit in the univei decay of godliness over the West, and the ubortivd attemplN to c|uickeu any life in the npu«tate Pa^ )>acy, and ihe Antiehristian Reformation; amtdi the infatuated haf^te also of our own land al bastard liberality, and un^anctified koowlcd| and expedient policy, the Lord hath a power, Icingly po^er, yea, the power of mftny kingx, pi parud Ui his counsels for niHiol^inin^ rht? ev4^rla«t* ing cause of godliness, aud glorious witness hijT faithfulness and tmth. And believio^ this light of the moniiDg is to dawn in the East, am glad that the Lord hath there placed so many of our pious countrymen, to catch the fir«l beams of its rising, and to g: