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r, and byij tbeir means shall accomplish the redi.*mption of tin royal tribe of Judah, which, with Benjamin, hallk.] these two thousand yeune aiid mori' Ijeen under thtt' captivity of Babylon and her daughter Rome. Departing now from these blcwings of Jacob] upon the twelve patriarcha, and of Slosea u\ the twelve tribeit, which may be regarded u tl fotiotains of prophecy, we fdiall follow dowa thtf^ jvtrcame, aiKlMsck to ascertain what fnrthtr light I^PJ - OHlUfk TCH THisn^^T 1136 tbey cofll updn this point in particular^ and ih' general upon the wbole ntygteryofthe restoratioii <if Ur&cl and Judflh. And wo shall take for the basis of onr cUf'caurso, the prophot llo&ca, who, of all Ih* prophets, ib the fullest upon the judg* ni«Dt of theTenTribm of luraal^ or of Ephmitn, ns he rlerioniinules \htn\ frorii llie trJbfl which held tli4< supremacy from the tima of tbvh' separation, and in whose bounds the royal etty of Samaria ' The firaf ch&ptcr contains their doom, written in the tiamcs of the prophet's three ftons ; the first eallod Jezreel ; for, aaitb the Loni, " 1 will avenge the blood of Jezreel u|>on the house of Jehu, and will eatise to cease the kingdom of Israel j " the •econd called Lo-rnhamfth, "for I will have no mercy upon the hou»c of Urael ; but I will utterly take them away ;'* the third called lx>-ammi. " for ye are not my [leople, and I will not be your God.'' These judgmi^nts, from which Judab » by express declaration (ver. 7,) separated, came accordingly to the very uttermo&t upon bor in the days of their king Ho»hea, at the time when Judah and their king^ Hezekiah were delivered from the hand of Kennacherib, the AHsyrian, But tfae same cliapter in which \» written thiv threefold doom r;f bloody vengeance, no mercy, and rejection from iht' Lord teir God, is thuFt, with full and gracious promise froneluded : '* Yet the number of the children of tftracl flhall be nA the sand of the sea which cfm- not be rheaMired nor numbered; arul it shall come pasw. that in ihe same place? where it waa said Onto them. Ye are not my people, there it »>hal) \>e «aid unto them. Ye are the sons of the livinp God. Then $hall the children of Judah and the 1136 TtiiL KiKnfl or the ka»t, [DiiU thilirtm of Untt*l bt; gmlttcrcd loj^i^lier^ and apJ, pQinl lh(?m>ictv(-K one head, and tlivy shall comB-l up out of the land : for great fthall be the day of, Jezrocl/' Nov. conccrainf? the mBiiiicr of this restoration of Israel^ we have nnany particnlaT) given in the cuacl03k>n of tlie following chaptert of whi