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cpCDdent lords of a domain* with thousanrls of dependc^iU under you. There- fore look to your inwani man, (o the nmcwing of your spirit, to the growth of your piety and obe- dience; and the eictremeftt labour which this or any country prcs^nt^, shall be unable to binder you from being happy and contented hero, and from rising to honour and glory hcreatter. Amen and Amen. ]0@4 DISCOURSE VJ. TUE KINGS or THE EA^, OR Til K TK.>V TRJBBS, RKV, XVI. 11. A$Mt thi nrtb angvl poura! ml hit tiat j^m the rtvtr Euphrates; arut Ott uuOo' ihtrcof wa$ 4tfiai up^ THAT TllE WAY OV TJiE KIKOS OF lliE EhSt UIGIIT 0£ rRErARHD. Having in two former discourses, dearly be- loved brethren, placed, almost beyond a doubt, the meaning of the former port of ifats vor«c, nod mftde it apparent froio uU the Scriptures that it denotes a judgment of inward consumjtlion upon that Anti-Chrij^iiaii powtr which for Hrven cen- turies hath tyrannized over Euphrates, the Holy Land, and the En^tcrn part of ChriKtcndomp we feel dispD^d to fo into the examination of thiA latter clause of the rerse a littte more at length than wc were able to do in our first diMrourse, and to disclose more fully the grounds upon which we believe tho tribufi of Urael to be pointed out under this emblem of the kings of the East: and I trust we shall be enabled a littte to clear the miata which have gathered around that pole-star of the providence of God, the conversion and reatora* tion of the Jewx, which \% Ihe ^uide through the VI.J THE TKM TRIBES. 1095 labyrinth of all the prophets, and ought, ae 1 have said, to be the beacon-light of the church througti these dark and cloudy times wbich arc setting in. In handling thift subject, 1 shall fii^t search ojl the ductriiK: ; hccondly, confirm it by the testi- mouy of Scripture; and, tbirdly,drawotit les^ns of improvement. I. You wilt observe, then, that three dcscrip- liona of Icings are mentioned under this vial ;— the kingH of the East, the kings of the earth, and the kings of the whole wuild ; of which we know, without any doubt, the precise import of the two latter, and inquire into the import of the fornwr. The kings of the earth si^ify Ihc ten kinfrs of the Papal Apostasy, against whom ejipccially the judgment of the great day of Ood Almighty is prepared ; and the kings of the whole world are all other powera and potentates be&ides, upon the face of the whole earth, who are in that same great day of discomfiture to be confederate against the Lorcl and his anointed, and to be by them stripped nf