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gs ; and tbey that arc with him arc called, and 4 B !t llliO faithful, and clioBeii." rHK KINGS OF THE CASI Hore are certain along iffilli him in this gr^t controversy, w!io aro de- scribed to bccalled^ or &ummoncd as it were ftotn afar, faithful in the midst of the universal apo* sixRy, and chosen to wiine^ and to execute tbea jiidgint;iitK upon lUe enemies nf the. \jOfd. Whicb^ ifi very much like the l3ii;fu;i(;<- ti<ed of llie same Jewish people in the day the Lord calletk^ tbcm. and appcarcth for them, as wo Khali have plentiful occasion to shew in the sequel of this^ discourse, Now if we can further shew that these kings ul the East are the Jewish people, to which the an^ lojiry <>f ftll (he prophets not a little prcdisposeih' the mind, there would bo established areiyfinc' harmony amongftt ihero. and a most comfortablej assunLDcc to the church. Thift ib what I urn no< ifl umlertakc. And I observe, Fir»l,Tbat tfiese kings of theRaxt ntust bvbroughl for a different purpose than the kings of the eartl and the whole world ; because their way i« pared by the Lord. Whereas the way of the oti is prepared by the three unclean spirits from mouth of the dra^^on, and from the mouth of t1 be»At, and frnni the ntouth of the fatM.- prophel the way of these l-^astcrn kinjfs U prepared by fl tngel of the Lord, who \st commissioned for thi end to pour a na] of consumption upon the waterS' Euphrates. The Lord interfere-^ on their account] to cut off a wicked power which would have hin^ dcrcd them. He exhauAr&theAe waters whkli come upoverthebnrdei^ of KmnianuelV land, whi^ had overwhelmed the holy city and devotireil t! holy people. He banks in the Euphrates sti which, in the bcginDingof thetr troubles in the da' OS TUR TKN THJBKS, of Jsaiah, bfttt Gw(^)lcd out under tlie Ait^yritn, and since balJi never ceased to vex all tUc holy land; yea, ho smites them in bis wrath, and they arc consumed. And all ibis is to make way for cerlain kin^ IVoni tb« rifting of the ^un. Aiid this is done <it » limc when nil ihc kings of the earth atid the world are gathering to their de^lrictioo. Can !£ be that therie kinj^ are likowiKc brought to their dci^tmciiou ! Wc would conclude other- wise from the langruage and machinery of the rial. Be«idea they would be twice reckoned in ibc muster roll; onccundcrthc name of the kings of the £«st, and a second time under the name of the kings of the wIhiIc world : in the former case^ brought up by God preparing the nay; in the second, instigated by the fur>'