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ose kings who came to Uie brightness of his rising ; by xvliom he shall be discomfited as in Perazim and in the valley of GilH^n, as Ueldhazzar wai« by Cyrns, and the A^^iyrian by the breath of the angel of the 1.ord. Which bein]^ accomplished, tlie seed of Israel which wero held captive under Babylon; that is, the remnant of the triben of Judah and Benjamin which have for two thousand years been eis it were entombed within the bowels of Rome ; shall be set froe by these kings firom the rising of the stm : and the temple vdiall be buill, nnri JernsitiLm the blesfied shall be raised up again in her beauty and her holiness, in her mighty strength and glorious magnificence, which " shall no more be termed For- aaken^ neither shall her name any more be termed Desolate; but thou shall be called HL-phzi-bah, and thy land Deulah ; for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married/* And here the pa- rallel ends ; for with the destruction of the mysti- cal Babylon these kings from the ri&in^ of the sun haring nothing at alt to do, as Cyrus had no- thing at all to do with the destruction of the literal TJabylon^ which came not about till many centuries thereafter. Not so, howe\*er, with the mystical Babylon, which is destroyed under the next rial, and that by her own ten horns or kings, 1108 TU£ KIMGA UF TUH KAU, [Dii. under (he iDstigatioii of Anttchmt their head* bo^ fore he is himself dcsiroycd- By which you wiili understand that the whore or papal apostasy is' destroyed by hiD), in order to make way for hts personal usurpation of the power of Babyloup which the ilninketi woman heretofore overruled; in which bavipg securely seated himself, be be^, comes the antitype of Sennacherib the AftsyrianJ and B«Ue«hazzar the Babylonian, seated in tba' tcroptc and worshipped a:^ the one God. opprcasbf ail the people who will acknowledge only the Uuft; God ; and then it is when ourCyrus, with his kingaf from the East, cometh up ag^ia&t him to the habi- tation of the slroDg from the fivrellin^ of Jordan* by wltom he is utterly overthrown, and Uie chiH dren of the Lord set free. j >'owif anyoncosk mc-why I parallel these ac-' tionn cf CyrtiA with that contaiiietl under tliiH vial; I answer, that the lan^uagt; was my 6rst guide, which ia manifestly the language of that event ; and being tliereby led to examine the prophecies which have re£pcct to Cyrus, as the aubverter of the J3abylonian power and the redeemer of God's people. I find it to include under it, and express- ly to mention, this IhaI deliverance whi