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of an anitchrislian flpirtt. Now this confusion and repetition in no- where to be expected in Scripture ; lea^L of all in Ihc ApNr^lypse, which is written with the utmost exactue?^. I obserre, secondly, that if these kings from the East arc understood amongst the potentates of the whole world who come up to make war with the Lamb, and with his called ami fintliful and chosen companioos^therc were noneedtodry up the waters of Eupbmte^, which power would readily league and concur with Ihem in any ftuch aiitichri^tiun confederacy* I mean, there would bu no Uf;c lo consume the Turk, in order to make way for kinga who arc to be ccnfederate with the Turk in the Ban>e ungodly undcrtnking. They would not stand in the way ai all but mther bv a furtherance to tbem. For if those kings of the East be the ptttcnt potentates ihereof.tliey arcofthef^arnc reli- gion and policy with the Turks, who^c du^tiuctipft I 103 THE KlJfOft OF TKC CAtT, [/)tf. ^vould ratliGf hiDcler ttum furtber these Rchetaea. But, on the other hand* it would be a meet oecea- sary preparation for the return of the tribes, be- caujie it lit distinctly prophesied that it should to take placid bcfoie lliat evt^nt. Inthezvtiith of Isaiah, wheo both tite return and the oatioti by whose help and protection it is to be accoii]pli«h- ed iseet forth, they arc dcscnbed as " a natioD scattcicd and peeled, a nation terrible from their beginning hitherto;*' that is, up to Uiat time, cx- peeting, ex[>eoLing^ " who^ Innd the rivers have spoiled," or inundated. Uefore these could be brought as a pre^sent unto tJie Lord of Hosts, in ZitHi, it is QccCA^ary that thc^c rivers which have inundated and spoiled the land ahould be dissipat- ed, which taken place under the sixth vizL And if they be terrible up to that time, thry must ac* quire that character by some^cts of prowess which may procure for tlicse the leaders of their tribes the title ofKings of the East. The aamo thing is prophesiedof inthexxvjilh chapter of i«aiah in the last two Tcrses, "And it shall come tu pass on that day that the Lord shall beat off (fthall thrasli off as corn is Ihrashed with a flail) from the channel of the river into the stream of Egypt; and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye chil- dren of l«rael I And it shall come to pass on thai day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were reudy to perish in ttie land of Abnyria, and the outcastfi in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem/' This is the Lord's tbrasbia^ so