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for continuiD); and eolAr^ her fibommations ; of whoso decline* theignob maniRT h set dowD in the pauago above, a various oihor pMffajre* of Scripture; hlit-mog eqiiaf find well distribnUfd justice of God, to ma her the dwelling place of e^cry foul bird, and every unclean beast, a solitude haunted with ft and fearful creatures, unvisitcd by the bu»v curious or joyful foot of man. And so every kmjweth the aneient Babylon to l>e unto this <la' Covered with a c^icl of dexulation, a frigbtfi inhospitable dangerous dwelling place of foul a fierce crcaturcR, Such is the Jcsue of thai kin of judj^ncnt. which under the fiixth vial be^innet after a vtaibic and sensible manner to be po^r out on tlie waters of Euphrates, or the Tu power. It will add n)uch strentJEth, and ^ire fresh and consistency to the interpretation th riTcd, both from the reason of tlie thing and t word of tiod. to give aoin'e attention to a p in the viiith rhapter of Isaiah, when ihe riiitation of jud]^K<nt upon the land of proa is threatened h« about to proe«ed from the nrer Euphrite*. Uaiah having received bis commisatoii to inlltct blindness of noderalanding and hardneii of heart, and all manner of wrathful jnd^ents upon the Jewish church and v^tate, thus denounce th« finEt of them upon Ahaz, who then ww over Jmluh, ver.G—S: " Fora&n)uch:tfttbi$peopl4 refu»eth the waters of Sbiloah that go sofUy, and rejoice in Rtzxn etnd Rcmaliah's aoo; now there, fore. l>ehold, the Lord briugolb up upon tketa Iba waters of tht? river, strong and nwny, erat>thi kmg of Amrta, and all hia glory ; and be abill lents «3s IV.J THS DlirfKO Of i>f THE tlUPHRAlES. &M) comi* up ofer nil hin cTmnnels, anil gn over all his banks. Aud hv i^hnll pass ttimttgh Juilali; lits shall orerflow and go over; he shall reach even 10 the neck : and the strctchiog out of his wiags shall fin the breadth of thy land. O lmroaniiel#'' Here, for the firnt time, are the walcn of Z;on and Uie tvatcra of Babylon set itt contract with one another ; the former to bignify the river of <it)d, which maketh glad tlu* pbce of his taber* Dacles ; the other to si^niTy the river of the power of Saiaii, which maketh ^sretched and miserable the people of Uod. The As^yruo at that time waH Satansiastnimcnt: aod he hud power with hiawa- terti to overlluw ihe daught^^rs nl Zioii to the neck, and tu ovtrrsprrad the land uf linmanucl. Thi» ia called the hrio^^ing vp of the waters of the river, because the As^syrtaoa had the power orer them : tbcti came the Babylonian, and then the Pe