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er against thy people, and constilt ag»m«t thy hidden ones, nyiog, " Come and lei us cut ihem oft" (rom be- ing a nation ; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance/' And the same mystery 1 take to be couched under Ezekici's prophecy of Gog, of the land of Magog, the priaci^ of Moab, and Mesliech. tind TiibHl^ who bringetb with hint also Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya ; Corner, and all tiie bands ; the house of Togannah of the north quarters, and all her hands; and many peoples with them. This confederacy of all nations, under Gog, comcth up like a cloud afjminst the. kin^s of the East, the children of Is> rae) dwelling securely in their own land ; and the account of it follo^^'a immediately after the pro- phecy of their conversion and restoration. And the language in which the battle of Armageddon is dcHcribed is taken almost vcrbaLixn from it, which I shall rf?ad- " Speak unto etery feathered fowl, and to every becist of tlii^ field, AsM^mble yourselves^ and come, gather yourselves on every aide to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may cat flc5h. and dnnk blood. Ve shall eat Uie flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of Iambs, and of goats, of hiilloek», all of them l^tlings of Bashan. And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which 1 have sacrificed for you- Thus yc shall be filled at my table with horses arid chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saiih the 4 n 1099 lUK KINDS OP TU£ EAST, [ZKf. Lord God. And I will set my glory afnoDg the heathen, and all the licith«n skail see my judg- ment that I have executed^ and my hand that I have laid upon them. So Uic bouse of Uracl shall know that 1 am the Lord their God from that day and forward. And Uie heathen «hall know tliAl the liouse of Umel went into captivity for their iniquity : hecause they ir^passed agramst m^ thereforo hid I my face from them, and gavo tliem into the hand of Uicir enemies ; so fell they all by the sword." (Ezek. xxxix. 17— 23.J To any on<; who gives the lestst heed to the holy prophets, and hath an ear able to understand plaia words, it is uianife^t from thc^e, and a hundred other passage* that the kings and nntion? of the whole world are gathered together to contend againnt, and utterly to make away with> the Jewish »ple, itirvady restored, or in thif way of heing Mslonzd to their own land. Their