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their abused dignities, in order that the earth and the fuhiesA thereof may pa^s into the liuiid^ of Lbe great Son aud Heir who bath been fitting now a long season expecting, till bin ene- mies be made hi* footstool,— according lo the decree declared of old, even from the day of his generation ; " Ask of me, and I shall give Ihec the heathen for thine itiheritaiice, and the utter- most parts of the earth for thy possession." This confederacy of the kings, and princes and peoples of the earth againH him, is always ;;;iven as the Hgn and the time ofhis installation into Im long do- creed throne upon the holy hill of Zion. And in all 1096 THt: KIV08 OF TH€ £ASTp [JKt- the propbetfl who make mention of these thio^iir d)i» great guthenn^nnd dij^comfitnrp ornatiouit i%' repres^iiU'd as tukin}< place at Jerutfalem, and in tlieralleyofJeltoshaphat: — " For.bcfaold.iDtboee flays, «>d in that time, wheo I fihall bnti^ again the captivity of Judab and Jcru^aicm, 1 will also guther all nations, and will brmg them down into the valley of Jebcshapliat, and will plead with thpm there for my people, and foe my heritage lerael, whom they hare mattered amoD^ the na- tionSf and parted my land/' (Joel ill. I,) — *' M one whom hia mother comforteth. bo will I com* fbrtyoo; and yc shall becomforled in Jerusalem For, heboid, the Lord wilt come with fire, and with hiy charkits like a whirlwind, torettderkis anger with fur)-, and his rebuke with flameitof fire. For by fire and by lih 9\^-ord will the Lord plead with all flesh ; and the t^latn of Iho Lord eball he many/" (Uaiah Ixri. 13, 16, IC.>- " Fo? I will gather all nationa against Jerusalem to baU tie; and the city Kball be taken, and the bouses: rifled, and the women ravi&hed ; and half of tba city shall ^ forth into captivity, and the residud of the people i&hnW not be cut off from the city.^ Then shall the Lord f^ forth, and fight against] thoAe nalionft. ns when he fouglu in the day battle. And hie feet shall staod in that day upoj the mourn of Olive*, which \% before Jemtalei on the ea^t ; and the mount of Olives shall cleavi in the midst thereof towards the east and towardi the west, and there shall be a rcry great valley:^ and half nf the mountain >hall remove toward thi north, and half of it lowurd the south/' (Zei xiv. 2— 4.)— To the same great criua of the Ai Btruction of all An ti -Christian pov^^er for ever from the earth, dotli the Ixxxiiid I'salm refer, ivhere all the nations and peoples then known, being tea in number, take crafty counsel togeth