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a of the b3rnfl<x>r. and grimling them to powder ; or, as it is written by thti same prophet, " And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the OentilevL, in the midst of many people, as a hon among the hcAHts of the held, as « yoong lion among the flockn of ftheep; who, if he go timtiigh, both tn^ftilrfh down iukI itntrerh in jni-^e*, and none can deliver : " or, after the figure? of the prophet Zecliariah (rii. C}, " In that day will 1 make the governors of Judah hko a hearth of fire among the wood, or like a torch of fire in a .sheaf; and they :^hall devour nil the people round about on the right hand and on the left: and Jernnalem ahall be inhabited in her own place, even in -leni* aalem." From this patient examination of the languaq!e of the text, and the concurrent Icittimony of all the prophets, it clearly appeareih that the cap- tives of the holy nation, which shall be found in fiabyloD, against the day of the Lor^^ thali be k^ delivered out of her thraldom, and the thraldom of bcr kiu^> by means of q powerful people* even kiQgd from tiic East, which arc also of the trihcs of lirael. It immediately occurreth, therefore, to iDqainvwbat tribrs thcAcare; and stx^ing that the captive tribes in the my^itical Babylon are Judah and Benjamin, as it was heretofore in the literal Babylon, il scemeth to follow as of noccfisory con- sequence, thai the tribes which dchvcr Ihcm must be the long lo&t Ten Tribes, wbich were carried away bc^'ond AMyriaj into the North country: and that these are the antitypes loCyrutEp and his many kJnjfA who came also from beyond Afisyria, even from Media and Persta» lo deli?er the tribes of Beojamm and Judah out of Babylon, To this bject wc shall now diroct onr attention, by the puidanre of tlie Holy Prophecy, which »binotii as a light in a dark pisce, until the day dciwn. iiiid the day*&tar arise on unr bt?arta. L^t ua see then whether these kin^s from the rising of the Rtrn be not the ten lou^ loat tribesof Uracl, wbich the Lord bringetb up at this conjunctare to deliver his people, their oppressed brethren of Judah and Benjamin, out of the hands of the king of Rome thai ift Ui arine. Concerning tbe captivity of Israel, it is to be borne in mind, that it was completed in tbe days of Hezckioh, king of Judah, by i^ennncherib, king of Assyria, full six score yctir» before the eapti- ▼tty of Judah. was complet&d by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon ; and that tbe former were taki^n away into the Norths and scattered over the cities of Media, while the latter were c