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aim, or Manasseh, the two tribes of Joseph : nor, if ihey had, are they worthy to be eatled the Shepherd, the ttone of laraet; which appertaineth to Christ only, who istheShep- hard against whom the sword of the I^rd did here* tofore awake, whom iti^mote scattering the sheep, (Zech. xiii.) but of whom it is promised again in the rth of Micah afier hJK birth in Reihlehem- Bphnitah, and hi?; giving them up for a while, that he tball stand and feed in tta« strength of the 1122 T»k ILIHQS 0¥ TUfc £44T, [Dv. Lord, i& the majesty of tbc name of the Lord his God ; and they shall ^ibide, for now shall ho be g:reat unto the ends of the earth. Aod. tliiji man tthall be the pnocc : whcu tbc jUfiynaa shall come iuto oar land, and when he &hal|. tread ia our [Jalace^, ihen ^bull wc f^ii^e again?^! Iiim seven i^bcpln-rdH aod eight principal m^ziu And they shall waste the land of A^tyria with the sword* and the land of Nimrod in the ontraacca thereof: thus will he deliver \is frum theA«&yriaDt wbco he comcth into our land» and when he treadeth within oui border/' In tins time of the deUruction of the-'Usyfian or personal Antichrists' and of Babylon fi dominion, when the Lord asks (Jer-l. 44^, " Who ia a cbo^a man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like mef and who will appoint me the time ? and who is that shepherd that will stand before nu- ?" lu thai day, I say, he a»ball be the ^Leplicnl^ the only .|tepberd and ruler of the csartb before the Lord ; all tlie rc£t Inking do»>tri>ycd aiid cut otf from the confederacy against him. In \vJuch day also, bo will be revealed u the »toue of l»raeU not to break him aa hcretoforci but to smite the tuc&, and ltiiib<, and body, and bead, of the great Colottftui of power which hath opprtij^ed liiiii, and to in- crease by the ro-union of bis people, and to fill tb« whole earth with their rule and government, la this senfte be is the shepherd and the stone of Israel, where he becomes the glory to bis pcopte Israel, «gaiii&t whom lutberlo lie batb been the swifi witness and their unknown Messiah. And an finch he i» (leelarod to proci^d from Jos«pb, though lie hath already come of Judah. How thtA can be accompli^ied 1 know not, uohias it rVI.} OHTIIKTIN Tiat&is. 1133 should be «o ordered that appearing: to these leu tribes, fiurnamcd Ephraim. and of whom Ephraiai was by right of primogeniture and blessing; the go- vernor, he should bring them along with him from thnr captivity; and, as their mighty head and lead- er, break in pieces the ARsyrian who rulclh over