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d part of the earth. 1 say. Tit the commencement of these twenty years there were but three ihouAand of them uuder a chiff, serving in iho armies of Mabmoud, who had conquered all India, and the rest of the Turks were shepherds upon the Orus aiid Jaxartcs, aad there lay between them tlie two mighty empires of the Sultans and the Calipha. At the end of tbime twenty years, lh»l c*apl'iiii of a baud had overturned the Sultan and was seated on his throne; had overawed the Calipb, or successor of Mohammed; had married his sister, was converted 1010 Till DRTINU CP OF TtIK CCrilRATfiS. [JWj totbeMohamniedftn Tailh Jie and nil his tribes, und Uwy were ready at the lord's comniand to do work wriUvii and »i>|H*ihled for thc«i in ibe w< of the prophecy of the sixth viaK The conqoesi of Cyni« over Babylon were rapid, and »i mope rapid were these of Akxaodcr Ibc over the efTemiiiate descendants^ of Cyrus; yi both the«L- bad slrrjng and miglity anuieic trdim in war, to do the work which the Lord bad givcii them in chart^e by the mouib of his prophets \ bul the conquests ofZadokand his m>x\ Uofni^&EU or they are named in the East. Scljukand Tofn^ll followed only by ^bepherds bearins; baft's, wil out any of the ?irt or Eirtillcry of war, pa&fteth beynnd Boyotberexamjile tipoii record- And ll conquests uf those twenty year* which remori them from the Jaxartcs to the finpbrafes, acrott the bulwarks of two empires, was only the prelude to their overwtielming And most desolation con- quests over all the eastern Christendom* In forty yearft more they were ina<kter» of ienualema^l and (here for twii hundred they abode the" shock of all tW chivalry of ihe ten kingcloics of Europe, led forth in six several crtisQd«« whereby the Holy Land waa drenched wil blood, and desolated with bre and ss^ord; blmI here they seemed dtspos^^d to settle thcmsdves, and rest contented with their acqitisition ufAik and Egypt, which was less work than the Lord had deKi^ned fur this scouri^e of Christcodoa. Wherefore another wave of these bitter and bloody waters, under Othman. who was the patriarch only of a few hundred fatiiilies, came aweeping over the East, and was not stopped until it had fulfilled the purpose of th«> Lord, by overwhelm- IDS IV.] THr D1IV1KC UP or TIIK EUPHRATES. lOI I ifif^ »ll thu regions of Asia and of Europe, to th« limits of liie Papal kinK<Jom«, dround which it loared for two ccnturice with tromcndoua noienco, but could Dot break them down, because thcr were eattiiblinhed by the word of God in that pon- scds