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jis here given to the restored tribes: and let us Oow proceed to shew our grounds for believing that the Jewish people, and none but they, can be understood undei- it. The largeness aud unbounded magnificence of 'those blessings pronounced by the pntrinrch Jacob upon the bead of Joseph and bts son Ephraim, and ^which Mt^AC^ at^erwanU reiterated upon the twin ^JIie»of liphraitn and Maita^scrh, the two sons of !ph, is best observed by comparing tliein with le ble^in^s pronounced at the game time upon the other patriarchs, and upon their tribes; wluch, with the exception of Jiidoh, in Jacob's roll, and of Levi, in that of Moses, are, as you will per- 'ccive by reading them, nothing more than local ^definilions of their Iwrders, and characteristiv 'features of their several ways of life, but contain in them none of that exceeding f^reat mif^htiness [of power, and royal function of honour and glorj- "Wbich are assigned unto Kphraim. And between the blessing?^ of Judah and Rphraim, there is this characteristic difference, that whih^ to the former ■U given the sceptre and tliu sovereignty, to the latter is given the fruitfulnes^s and the warlike 1134 Tilt: KI^GK 0¥ tnt EAST, inight : while to tUe fornier is given the rich ftn< exuberant cDJoyment of ilic choicest blesaings the earth, to the latter is given the bow of abid' ing strength with which lho«ebleKititig«are achicr- vd, attd lUc i»trong right hand by which they nn maiatained; to the one the birth of the Shilub,) unto whom the gallicring of the people should be, and to tli« other Ihe origin of the Shcphi^rd who. gatheretL Israel, and of the &tone which smitctb the nation*. So that if to tiie one it is assigned to hold the sceptre, to ihe oUier it h assigned ti> wield the i^w ord, with which (ho crown »nd sceptrel are defended: as we would aay, the one is the &o^ Ycrcign caste, the other the warlike caste of the children of Israel. And ao near doth Joocph rise to the level of Jtidah's blessing, thrit 1 believe al this day it is not an nnfreqnent notion among the! Jews that there ik to be a double Messiah ; one of Judah's, ihc other of Josepb^s line; and certably, lunongst the Samaritans, it is held that the Mes- tmb whom they expect is to come of the of Joseph. But the plausiblenpss of ihrw IsOm!.! notioiui \s removed, and ihi; bleii^tng pre*^'rv(*<l io^J its activencss, if tbat idea be true which 1 bai aajntaioed above, that it i-t to Ephraim, »lfa< head of the Ten Tribes, that Mc&sjah, when h*^ coiDcth as the nan of war, tiiiall a[)pea