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iiniel from the land of Ihe NurOi, and from all the liitidit whctht^^ be had driven them." Being thuft delivT-ned out of the cities of their cnptivity, and from the nations that ^rred themaelves of them, *' they fthall walk after the Lord/' aa heretofore tlicy marched out of Egypt under the leading of the cloud and pillar of &re; for it is so written in Uickiel xx.35: " And f will bring you into the wildenieTN^ of the people, and there will L pluud with you face to face. Like as 1 pleaded with your fethers in the vilderneas of the land of Egypt, so will 1 plead ^^ with you. sailh the Lord God. And I will cau^e ^vyou pass under the rod, and I will bring you into ^H tiio bond of the covenant : and I will purge oiit ^H front among you the rebeh, and them that irans* ^0 greas against me : I will bring them forth out of the country where they aojourn, and they shall aot^emer into the larxl of Urael : and ye fihall kiowthat 1 am the Lord." Iliere is rerealed in these words a great naliotial reformation, and, I nmy say, re-constitution; of which, asappeareth lo me, from all the Scriptures, £lin» fthall return, 9nd iw the great instrument in^ Uod a hand, as L 1144 TMK ICIK«« OP Till f.AWf^ {. Moftes heretofore uvas. In all which bis holv commaodm^nU having walked ftftcr the Lord, h' w iminetlialely added, *' The Lord shall n^air til a lion.'' Now, as saitli Jenrniiab, " he hath fcr- taken his covert as a lion : for ihe land is desolate^ because of the fiorccncfie of the oppressor, and bc- rauae of his fierce an;:er." Now, as saith Isaiah (xtii, 13). ** be shall gu forth as a niifhty man: he shall stir tip jealotiAT like a man of war: he shall cry, ym, mar." And, not to maluply other Bumerous iDstances of tbe same figure used of tbo same time and circt:nistance«, wc refer you to tbe xscxist chapter of tbe Prophet Isaiah, where the causeof tills luighty pulling forth of royal «trciiglb and indignatioa by the Lion of the trihe U Judab. is revealed to be the destruction of iho Assyrian, who in all the prophecies of Isaiah, a^i also in Micah, and Zechariah, is the name to denote tbe great head of Ihe Ant^hrit^lian confederacy in tbe day of the Lord's glohoueadvenL Ver. 4 : *' Pur thuH hath the Ijord spoken iinio me, Ukc as Eb« lioii and tbe young lion roaring on bis prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abasa btmself for the nol&c of thorn: ^ sbnll the l.ord of hosts come down lo tight for Mount Zion, aixl lor the hill