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arried away to Babylon, and planted in the towns and citien round about. So that, as well by to4)g diainnce of 4 c 2 1116 TItt KlXt-S or TIIK EAST, time, fts lonff disUnce of place, were the two cap- liritics parted far asunder. And when Cyrtift granted pcrmwaion to them to return, you will find by coD&ullm^ the Book of Ezra, that those who availed thcmsclveB of the phTilege, were of the house of .luduh nr Repjamiu, eicept stome of the Levites, which were scattered amon;; all the tribes for the right service of God< These multiplied and replenished the land, until the time of our Lord and hi» A poatles, when their city and temple were utterly <lefttroycd by the HomuM, and thi^ reiitnant of them scattered abrond atnOQgit Uie nations of the West, as we behold them at this day- Of those who remained at Babylon^ and would not return* the descendants are found ttnto lhi» day scattered over the East, in Mewpo- lamia, and Persia, and Arabia, and Turkey; bat of the Ten Tribes we are. altfigelher in i^o- rance ; yeu» the mtysi li^urned uf the Jews tbem<- selres know nothing, Bave that theyareeomcwhorc 10 be found in the Nonb-east of Asia. ThuB hai-e wc Judah diiipcri^ ip th^ West, chiefly over the Homan empire, captives urxier tlic mystical Ba- bylon» while Urael in the East in somewhere ex* isling beyond the bounds thereof. This, of it««lf, wotiUl lead ns to believe that tliese kinf^, from the rising of the »iun. if they belong to Israel at ftlt, are of the Ten Tribes who cxi&t somewhere in tlic Eastern parts of the world. To thix des- tination. 1 think a passage in the sclvtli chapter oflsaiah makctballuAioii, whcin speaking ofCyms, it iH said(ver. 4), " For Jacob my servant a sake, and iKfnel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name :,•.,! girded ihce. though thou hast not, known roe ; that they may know from the rij OH THb itH TKIBKS, 1117 of the sua, and from the west, that there U none beside me/' For this slamletli in no connection with the heathen, but Mrilh the thbc» of Israel only- However this may be, it ia certain that the ^Bjonl hftd even from the dayn of Moves foretold this (liver>ily of M^ni and s<?vure divciptine, to which he was aboLt to subject the tribes which he had choseD, seeiog that in the xxviitth chapter of Douteroiiomy, two very diSerent thineaare thrcal- eiied to them; the firat tUrcateniog, which we know to be against Israel, as well fixjpi the descrip- tion of the crime, " the king that thou shalt set erthec/' ai^frt^m the st>b»t;iiice of the judgment, einglo