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vid, or of the coming of the true kiDff David from the root of Jesse. " For the children of brael ^hall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without it sacri- fice, and without an image, and withoutan epbod, and without teraphim. Aftcrwurd Kbull thr cbiU dren of Israel return, and seek the Lord tbeir God, and Oavid their kin^, and shall fear the Lofdi and his goodness in the latter days."* So much is written with certainty concerning the rcetoratiou of these Ten Tribes in the latter days, and the reunion witli Judah tinder one king, evea David. And iiow, with respect to the part which Israel is to take in the redemption of Judab, we go on to inquire. I begin with the blessing pronounced by Jacob upon Joseph, who was the father of two of tribes, Kphraim ami Manasseb, whereof Ihe forttieT' was the fitontest of alt the ten, and doth stand in Scripture generally as the representatire of them fill ; even as Judah doth rcpre^nt the other two. Now in bicsstiig Joseph, tlie head of their tribes^ the patriarch Jacob thus cxpresseth himself. I. x1ix.22: '* Joseph in a fruitful bnugfa, even a frbilfu) bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall/* This refers to the exceeding populous- ness of the tribes proceeding from bim. Ver 83: Tl:]' OH THE TEN THIBM. ||2I F^The archers hare sorely grieved him, and shot bt bim, and hated him/' ThiR, 1 think, referrclli fto the present sore and cruel treatment which they arc somewhere enduring: and the langimge [^i« derived, 1 think, from the envious darts which tVere directed agum^t him, Hiid the sore KtrailB (to irhtch he was broaght in the land of E^ypt, ind would permil our using the dcHrcrance ><whichhcwrou^htfor his father's house there asan ^emblem of some future deliverance which be i& ^et to work in Israel But without renting on this, let ua proceed. Ver 24 : "But hin bow 'abode in strength, and the arniH ofhia hands were made stronj? by the hands of the mii^hty God of Jacob: (from thence is the Shepherd, the »tone of Israel.) * f hie cannot otberwisc be understood than of a future event, for of Joseph's descend' ants no such thing batti yet been fultilled. His how did not abide in strength, but wan hiokirn by the Assyrians: hia hiindn were nut made strong by the mighty God of Jacob, but were bound and shackled by the Assyrians ; and for him hath ddi yet proceeded tlic Shepherd, the stone of Israel; for neither Ehud, nor Uarak, nor Gideon, nor Sampson, nor Saul, nor any other renowned deli- verance came of Gphr