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oft described in the Prophets, and the bounds with which it is to take place : his bam floor is iKitwecn Euphrates and the river of Egypt, whiob 0& Tli£ TE^ TEtl5£S- i» to be thoroughly cleared aud exhausted of Its rarious pcopks, in order to the bringing home of the captive* of Ii:rael in Ass^'ria and in Egypt. And bctwcoji tbe^ two 6|;urcs, thrashing' \u a barn-ljoor and evaporating waters, there is a great •imilarity in respect to the internal and universal diararter of the judgment. Now it is munifc&t that ihe.'^e houiul-s are at present usurped by the Turk- ish people, who therefore muitt be fin«t ihra&lied like the dustand carried away of the wind^oremp* tied out with evapomtion before the captives are brought home. And wbcuwc find tliis done uuder the iiixtii vial, ard the caiine of it assigned to be fi>r making way fur a royal company out of the £ast, we should at once ^y that, accordiug tc the pfopbctfi, thi« company must be the Jewish out* casts gathered again into one. Thirdly. I ob>erve in the third place, that if these kings from ttie East be not the Jews, then not only hare wc no mention made of them at all in ihU hook» though a hint to that clfcct had been given in the first chapter, but we have no -lepura- tion nor setting of ihem apart from the general congregation of the kings of the whole world* who arc destroyed at ArmiigeddDn. For» as hnth been said, the sealed tribes are not to be taken liieraUy of the Jtws, but isymholically of a complete nation whidi had been separated from the apostate earth, and was therefore defended against the jud^cnta thereof. The Jews would thereby he wholly omitted ; and the prophecy would net redeem its own promise, that " they who> pk^rced lifm #hoiilil niso heboid him/* which, bf>ing read in the prophet Zecbariab.iB found tube a !(Mik of godly sorrow and partial contrition : " They 1104 TUE KIKGS OF TU£ EABT, [DU. shall look upon mc whom they iiave pierced, and inotirn as one that mourncth for a first born." iDSteatlorthiBconvcrMon of the tribes ia or rattier before the day of Uie great Klaughter, we should have it passed over in total silence, yea th«y woald be gathered oIgds: with the re^t into the slaughter- house of ArmageddoD, whither it 19 said that the Itingw of the whole world are gathered. Whereas the truth is, that it is in controversy for Zion, and HK^ompence upon her enemies that his judgment of all nations taketh place. But if we understand tliesc kinga from the East to bo the Jewish peo- ple, then all proceeds according to