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being a . 'nation, they shall now return to seek and to find t a Messiah, the Son of I>avid, " who shall be their [■prince for ever." (Exek. xxxvii. 20.) [ Bwfore leaving Hoiw^a. the peculiar prophet of [ Ephraim, I would brin^ under your eye the chief of tho^ other )>a$sagLt» which cast tight iipon the captivity of the Ten Tribes of Israel The plsee of her cxiic isthasde5cribed(ix, 3): "They shall not dwell in the Lordn land, but Ephraim shall return to-E)^^pt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria." And as the reason for Jodali's being sent captive to Babylon wns that vain^glorious trust tn power, and display before her ambas- sadors which was made by Ilc^ckiah ; m> also with Ephraim s (vii, II): '* Ephmim also is like a tillydove without heart: they call to Ek^'pt. they go to Assyria." And the manner of their abidiog there is thua described : " For they are gone np lVIj] 0» THI£ TSEt TRiBfit. 1141 to Afifiyria, a wild asft alone by tiimsclf : Ephraim hath hired !i»rcn*. Yea. iliough ihcy hure hired Among tlie natioa^f, nov^ wilJ 1 gather tlicm> and iWy Rhttlt Korrow a little for tl»e bunlen of the King of princes/' Timt is ngSLvnst the time of the Lord*s feathering of them, theyshall begin lo move ,for Christ, the Kinf; of die princes of the earth. l^whoBC royal functioa they had rejected, and wboAc royal [unctioD thty muiL now begin to acknow- ledge, and to bear the burden of bifi warfare with ihe kingH of the earlh, who are now begimiingto .follow hcrevll example, and ^rowrolKrlUousagainKt her Where I perceive another great inittnnoc of God'fi marvcUousgraccthal.asheusodUioseJewa }0f Jeruaalem who had been preaent at, and,^ I doubt not. art aiKl part in, his crucifixion, to up- hold the glury uf hbi Cro&f> after the day uf Pente- ;CO!tt ; and etipecially Paul who had per^ciil^d bina; to doth he ufe the^ Ten Tribes who first rejected his royal offer to be the inKtrumeuts of DiaintniniDg it against the combined reheUion of ihe princes of the earth. And herein doth Ue the mystery of the reparation of the tribea into two parts, that the hoituur might be divtdeii betwi^^n the children of Israel, of suataining the cauae of Messiah in the iwo paHsaget of itg most perilous Atrait£: the firet. when he wa^ crucified, and his Gospel preached; the second, when be ^all be lesiated hy the confederacy of all itie earth, and t]ie setting up of bis kingdum opposed. Now, if, MOine have supposed, those wise men from the who were guided by a star to come from a fer country in order to offer their hom