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ke groaning. And this power, heretofore iiynjIwtUod uii bound iipun £(ipbrates and thence drawn up in the severity of (iod to slay the men ^r tlie third part of tlie i^sirih, k now, in liis righ- tcouF^ncB^, visited with the vial of judgment at Uie tmic that the last viald of wrath are poured out upon Uie earth; and this immediately pre- yiriu^ to ihc yt^ar of the redeemed of the Loid. 1 hufi far we Ihtnlt there can lie no doubt, und in uuih iLere has been little doubt ainonj;at the in- terpretera of the Apocalypse : for that the sixth trumpet and the sixth vial refer to the Turkish power, almost all arc agreed. We »haU coi\aider thi» matter therefcie as fully a^sccrtarncd and made out; and shall now proceed, in the third place, to inquire iulo the nature of the judgment ^hich i» contained in Ibis vial ; what is meant by tJie drying up of the nvcr Euphrates. lU. And here, as always In the interpretation of symbolical language, wc must hare recourse to the other ScriptureAj and J^ee in what seruie the Spirit of flod i% wunt to use such langu;ige. In the xvtb chapter of Isaiah, we find it thuft writti^n of Moab, whom he lilceueth to a heiier of three years old, lowing for pasture; " Because tike waters of >'imrim frhall be desolate ; for the bay ift withered away, the grass fuileth> tlicrc is no green tiling. Therefore the abundance tJiey have gotten, and that which tliey have laid up, liball they carry away to the brook of the willows/' THs DmriMo vr or thc £trrHftAT£fl. [. The figure, ets here iDtcrpnrtcd. is taken froai a trib« or ifaepbeid people with ibeir herds indi flocks, who have pitched their tcnte, and tski itp ibcirsbodc upoD thebanksofapleniifiiifil where they have iDcrcascd aod muttiplied, uid< aor|utred much : uQtil God, wtUing to punish tbem, doth it inu«t eirectu^Jy, by wraitUiig the w«ici of the rrrer vrith coDsomiDg drought, mod di op iu fouDtaios, o&til the grus witberetb, the leaves of the Cites foil, and the cattle asccoi fttm the banks with loud moaning, and roam <]tiest or pasture ; and the whole tribe ioCh); «trilce tbdr tents, and are fain to sci^k their wa^ to some brook of the willows, marshy and uq«. wholesome thouj^h it be, and all uaworlby to be compared with the beauty and loxuriaocy, and frcfthncAa of their forsaken valley. That this ing away, as distinguished from Tiolcnt ci otf, \% the expre&a m^aniog of the symbol, is mi manifcttt from the comparison of what la tfacns mwA'< concerning the waiers of Nimnm, with what fol- lowt concerning the waters of Dimon, '* For t