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To the former, as being the mn<it heinoun. he decreed iustanicutttng (iff, and long and sore rejection, with no benefit of that merciful Saviour whom they had rejected, in rejectnig the house of David. "While to the latter he decreed seventy years' cap- tivity, and, after their rcsttiratiou* a succoaaioa VIU ^^ 'r^< ^^^ TKIBEf, IIJ9 severe chaBti^em^ntA, ^ith the first presentation or Mes&iah. and overture^ cf his Gospel ; honour* ing Lheni to lay the foundauon of the church. ThU divfjr&ity of judgment la distinctly announced in the first chapter of tlcsca^ who was nii«rd up to prophecy unto Israel a few years before the cap*- livity, ver 6; " vVnd God said^ Call her nam^ Lo-ruhamah ; for 1 will no more have mercy upon the bouse of Urocl ; hut 1 will utterly take them away. But I will have nicrcy upon the house of Judah, anil will save them by the Lord their God» and will not huve tht?iii by bow^ nor by sword, nor by bailie, by bon>eiJ, nor by horseiooii/' Which wm. fulfilled when Sennacherib, the ncour^ of Ifiraelf who ewcpt them away, was broken belbrc Jertivaletn with all hi» nit<:hty lio>t, by the breath of Uic au^el of dt^lrudiua. Hut in the wry Eami': chapter, it i» thus ^aid of the children of Israd, upon wliem at that liuie the Lord had no mercy : " Yd the number cf the children of Israel lihall be a& the sand of the »oa, whtcli cannot be mea- sured, nor numbered ; and it shall come to pasa, that ill the pbcc where it was said unlo them. Yc were not my people, there it shall be a^id antu Ibee, Y'e are tlie aoiia of ttie living Ood« Then shall the chihireii of Jjdali, and the children of Israel be };athered together, and appoint them- selves one head, and they shall come up out of tbe land ; fur great shall be the day of Jezrcet." In the next chapter of that ^ame Projihet, w)io, with Amos, may htt eonftidcrc-d ns having; perform- ed for Urael that same office ofmstant expoi^tula- tiou which Jeremiah afterwards performed for Judah, wc have the manner of this restoration in the latter day5 particularly and must aficctionate- ilSO THE KiKOa or the &A5T, i^^^ ly descrit^ed, concliKling in tha«e wordft : *' I will have mercy upon bim tltat had not obtatni*d mercy; and I \vi1l say to them which were not my p€opl«, Thou ^rt my people ; ittid they sli&U flay. Thou art roy God," And, ia the third chap- ter, the time of this conversioo aod visitatioa of Israel is giv«n to be the lime of David their king; that is, the tiiue of the selling up again of the tabernacle of Da