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of moutli. and by the biighiness of Wis coming; are i^w prepared foriiupi 11 iii^.st-j^ondly, wh»i lo ofobiUaclea&d hitniruK-e tot heir way, Uei»couc under the symbol of the great river Euphral which hath firat to he dried up bc-fdrc those kin of tho Cast can procc<^d upon their marcti. first, uatiiral^jracity^ffithotit any helpof5.yfnbo cal inti7q>r^l(itirjn or exanilnatiLin of the conte would an?»wer at once, that more must be mea In ihi&expresfnon than meet£the ear: because way of tt K>^eat army of kinj^s never yet was oor oould bo, opposed, roorety by a river, unless vocue vigilant and powerful ci>cniy were stationed up itA banks* (who in thin ca^e aclvancetti not one t buyouil JeruAaleitt); thero never being wan plenty of expedients^ e&peeially in an adv age of tbe world, to eros& iu however gmi depth and «trong it$ current. Boaides, tbatt if tbc dividmg of Jordan or the Ked $ca» it hadbecfl intended to remove merely an obstacle to tbc pru- gress of Iheir march, it would not have been «3lr. preNved in language aignifying a gradual Tll£ DItVlVG UP OF THC KL'?HRAT>^. tway and cvaponttioD 4>r its waters ; bat la lan- guage expressive of %'eheincnl power, and mimca- lo^is working, a» it i» in l&a. xi. ia, m : " And the Lord shall ulterly destroy the longnt* of tlic Kgyp- liaa sea ; and with bb mighty wind shall he shake Ufi band over the river, and shall smite u in the seven streama, and make men f^o over dry-^hod. And there lihalt be nn highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like aft ii waft to Uraci in tlift day that he came up out of the l.iiLd of Egy|)i." TheM^ word«, any one would say^ 1 at once understand literally a* tl miraculous putLint,' forth of Divine power, in be- bfltt'of ibc children of Urael upon their return lo the promised land ; but the language of the dixth Tial is of altogetlier a ditierenl character, and 'contains nn event of a great political kind, which makes way for another great political event, to ocour, not immediately apon tbe tormer, but un- der another vial and towards the conclusion oftho event* of that vial. While I argue for Ihia suggestion of natural sagacity. I am so far from arguing against the literal accomplishmezit of f«niah'« prophecy, that 1 most assuredly believe it will take place; the passage where it is pre<licted Laving plainly n literal bearing, and forming part of pi^ophoeies which arc not symbohcal, but literal, though at tinges highly hguralive. And in gt^n^-ml, loucliing this connection bi-twcen ihingH wntien both lite- r