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ch shall be accomplished by the tribes of Israel. The pro* phecy of the xlv th chapter of Isaiah, is every where too large and capacious for Cyrui, though tot^yrnsitbe given by name, and doubtless for Cynisin the first instance written. For example, rer. 13, 14, " I have raised him up in ngliicuus- ness, and 1 will direct all his ways : he shall buikl my city, and he sliall let go my captives, not for price Dor reward, saith the Lord of hosts. Thus saith the Lord, the labour of Egypt, and mer- r/tandrzcof Ethiopia, and of the Sabeans, men of .1^0 on THE TEN nirBiEs. ir09 . 9liall come over unto ihee. nmd they ftliall hinc: they fibaU come after thcc ; ia cliatQs ihcy shall come ofer, ami llitry Htiall fall down nto thee, Ihcy Kh»)] make supplicaiioiiuntotbee, yinjj. Surely God is in lliee, and there i« ine else ; there i* no t"0<l/' This was not Ifillcd of Cyrua. of whom it never could be d with any propriety that he was raised up in righleouf^ness, being un idolater from bis ^ hirlh rven to his dt>aUi. Nur was the Jerusa- I Urn whose building he set on foot ever fto tri- ^_'umphant, or eo lionoared amo9i|; the iiatioo« ; but ^^'perpctuQlly vexed, plundered, and destroyed. ^VAnd that which follows, in the 16th and ITth ^Pverses. was utill less fulfilled: '*They shall be ^ * atiham^d, and nhit rnufmimled, all of ihein : they shrill go to oiiftision together that are makers of idoU: btit Israel shall be saved in the Lord ^htiwitb an everlasting salvation : ye shall not be ^V-ashamcd nor confounded, worid without end/' ^r^'eilher. on the one hand, have idolaters all been I ashamed and confounded together; nor, upon the other hand, hath Israi-l be«n Kaved in ihc l^rd with an everla^tinf^ salvation. And the same niay be said of all that strain of prophecy which occurrelb from the xlvlh to the xhxth chap- ters, concerning the destruction of Babylon, that Cyrus and his army are not able to do,— -no human power is able to do the things which <ire foretold, nd were foreshadowed under that great histo* ical act of CyruK, the shepherd of the Lord, But thi^ conviction, however strong:, would ot have borne cut the conclusion that he was typical of <>hmt» and Im army of the restored Iribosof Israel, which we gatlicr from the addi- lilO Tll£ KINOS OF Till: £A«T, [iXf, tioDal light cast upon this subject by the prophet Jcrciriah, in the Itb and ItM chapters, which are wholly dedicated to the orcrtbrowc^ llahylon, Iq the rorni<^r of which cLaplerft