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hatred to God expresseth itself in a bloody purpose of extcnni' nating hit) chosen and peculiar people, for whom he hath in aslrikiu^ way interfered, and by mighty acts restored them to their inhrriiancc. ^Vud this, nodoubt, is the mystery of the battle of the great day of God Almighty, mentioned under ibJs vial, to which the kings of the earth and of the whole world are ^thered together into a place ealled u) the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. Little in- deed id said ia the Apocalypse concerning any ■"other kings save those of the earth, oraposlaie Gentile rhiirrfa, wilh whioli it hath chiefly to do ; ^but ill Ihis place they are added, in order to pa- lallel and synchronize in the act of Annageddoa. with the act of universal destruction of all Aati- ChristJan power which is crery where in the Pro- I F,} Oft TUB T£N TltrB£<w 1099 iCXs, and the GospcU, and thcEpistlcfl, describ- ed aa attetidant upon the coming^of th« Lord. As liUle is^aid of the Jewish people; for tlicrse Healed tribes are. aa we have shewn, symbolical of the Britifib nation, which, becau»te of its fQithful protes- tation, U sealed during the time of these vials of wrath ; and yet cnouj^h is t^id to parallel and syn- chronize the Uook wiihthoaiicicnt prophets, who prophesied of that people. In the first chapter, at the seveBth verse, it is written. " Behold be comeLlt with clflUits, and every eye shall see him, and they aUo which pierced him, and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him." Here im> mediately before the wailinf: of all kindreds, or concomitant with it. be is manifested with clouds to them who pterccd him, that is. to the Jewish people, which well agrees to what we have deriv- ed from the (>fh«^r prophets. Now, it in umler this sixth viaU Uiat we arrive at the notification of his coming, " Behold I come a^/a tbkf:" Q9 a thitf^ to defK>te the sleepy, heedless, unprovided condition in which he would take the Gentile church, to whom this call is particularly adcircsA* cd : and we should therefore expect, that at tliis time also be would be appearing to thc-m that pierced lum< Moreover, it is &aid of the bcasi which Cometh out of the bottomless pit, the last bead of the t>east, and also of the seven which is to lead that frrand Anti-Chriirlian confederacy of nations, the league, as I take it, of Ezekici s pruplwcy, the As»»yrian of Isaiah, and the wilful kinfjrof Oaniel, "that lie shall make war with the Lamb (Rev. xvii. 14}; but the Lamb shall orer- come him; for be is Lord of lords, and King of kin