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t, and plump, and beautiful. ''But I pfiiaed over upon her fair neck," aa one that binds her to the yoke to plough iu the furrow, and changetb ber sleek beauty into bare and galled •WJJ' OR T«I TKN TtilttES, ■>' I Ifil nakedness* I brought ber inio captivity, and dashed to the ground all thofie hopes of power and ^lory vrbicb 1 had taught her in her youth ; but be adds, '* I wtU wake Ephraim to ride, and Judah shall plough, and Jacob shall break hist cloda;" J will rentore Ephrniiu ti» hist iirnmiscd glory^ and he i^hall rklv upon the hi);h placet of the earth in glory and tnumph* Judah shftll plough or cultirate ihc nations after (he other hath tramptcd their grandeur and glory under foot, sending Ibrth the feet of the ox and the aha, and itowiug bea^ide all waters the law and the tL*s- tiinony ofGod ; in which diligent work she Hhail be aiuif;led and helped on by all the tribes of Jacob, whose digaity ehalJ yet be ss much infe- rior to the other two, as is hia who brcakcth the clods, to that of the good husbandman who hold- eth the plough; or to that of the master, and, I may say» the gentleman who ndcth at htb eiise, and leisurely overlookelli the whole. That lhi« is the true interpretation is apparent from the rcrse following: " Sow to yourselves in righteous- new, reap in mercy, break up your fallow ground, lor it is time to seek the Lord till he come and rain righteousfwss upon you." Such then is the day of the great seed lime of rightixiusness and reaping time of blessedness in the dignity of Ephraim, beeide Judah and the rest of his bre- thren : and seeing the rest of this prophecy ful- filled; seeing Bphra^m bound between her two' furrows ; M^Hng her f^r and voluptuous neck peeled and furrowt^d with the ynke, and sconrged with the whip, i look to sec when die shall be made to ride in liberty and power by tlie same Lord who hath brought her into bondage. 4 r 1192 rilB KlNdS OP IHE EAftT, [ /. Before quittiiifr this simililude of EphraiiD, oi^ heifer treading out tbe corn, 1 cannot deny my thi* satisfactiDn of rcfvmn^ ym to the bur of Epiiniira in the xxviiith of Isaiab ; whe the Lord pres^nteih to us, first, her fatnese tiistihoodr and dninkeuncss, and vain glory; then pa»^cih over her tair oeckwith such a scourge and desolation a& makctb ooc'ti eara to tingle, Ua it ]ia.H.-c^th from Ephraim to the whitle «arth, and descwndoth upon if »m it dtd upon Ihc CanaanitAS in ihe valley of Gibeon, and upon the Philiatinet in monnt Pomzim. But mark bov^ tho chaplor eoncludef