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thereof.. <,. Then shall the Asfiyriaji fall with Ihe Kword, not of a mighty man; nnd the aword, not ofa mean man shall dcvourhim. * At ^Ihat time, tbe great op|Hi«^r of Chrlei, and usurper his kingdom, shall have come into tus royal ^tfity of Jeruftniem, and entered into possession lOf the land of his inhrritanrv. and be ruling with rod of oppresaiofi over his itainU and over nil the eartli : when, the fulnesjc of tlte time bein^ 0% me. Tffiv fHiHtn. IJIS' «.Qiii<e, '' bo pultetb on righteoti$ne»E ae a breast* pitte, sud a helmet of salvation upon his head ; ajHi ho pulUrth tbo pirmeius of vcflg:eance for cioUiin^. and i& clad vriUi K^cal as a«Ioak 'P^' the Cbcmy is come in Ukc a floods and iht- Spirit of t6e Lurd doth lift up a «tniidnTx) u^iciat him." Wii«u hti tuUi uLLeri^d Uwft voice so stubliuiely described inthexviiitbandxxixth Psalms: when he shall have blown the great trumpet of war «pokcD of in all the .prophets, and set iipthei»tatid-' ard for hu people, the effect i« thus de^^cribcd tn our Prophet: " He BtiaJI roar, tfa(?n th« children shall trcmbic from the West. They shall trenibis ab a bird out of Egypt, and ^a a dove out of the laodof Mayria; and 1 will place them in thetr^ houses, saith the Lord.'^ Here are three distinct places mentioned from whtch the children are to come to be planted ill their own houses: first, the Weat; aecondly, E^ypt; and, thirdly, the, taivlT^J of Asiynii : of wliich IIih twc* laMi-r wi* have al- ready Been are s«t forth in this Prophet, and in^ deed in all tho Prophets, aa the pUcen whcthof'^ the Ten Tribes were cast out in the an^r of tlit fi Lord,a»dwhencc they are Co return when thebordr* * shall waemble the outcasts of Israel. (Isaiah xit? ' 16, )6;'XXTtL 13.) Wherefore we coocludep as we do in fact see it to be, that th« cbildrvn who tremble from the West, are the dispersed of Ju- dah» who are also to be gathered into one. Now it is remarkable that the trembling from the West w not aecoiii|ianierl with any immediate more*' meat, but th;it frcHii iigypt Js foUuwtd by u Hif^hl as quick as a bird, and that from Assyria with a>i) flight as quick au a dove, the most rapid of birds. Which BigDifies>that, while all the dispersion shall 4r 1146 Tltr. KIVCSOFTTIK lEAAT, [/Xf. hear the voice of the Lord, howi^vcr given, atid see hU etandard^ however tiited itp, those of thdj We»t flhall cither not be mllcd, or. vrhich ift moi likety. through the opproRHion of the AntichristJav^ king of Babylon, ^ball not be permitted, to obey the siiimmo