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>>rhich I wonder much that any one can grtins^y 'or dare douht: " I will hi&s for them, and gather ^hem ; for I hare redeemed ihem^ and they shall increase as they have increased. And I will w>w lhem among Ihe [people (peoples), ami they i^hall remember me in far countries : and they shall live 'with their children and turn again. I will bring them again also cut of the land of Egypt, and ga* tber them out of Afisyria: and I will bring them into the land of Gilend and Lebuimn^ and place shall not t*e found for them. And he shall [>aw through the sea with affliction, and shall emitc the waters in the sea, and all the deeps of tiic nver shall dry up r and the pride of Assyria shall be 1170 THE KXSQUOY IHt KAST, [Z)u. brought doWD, wd the sceptro of Egypt shtll do- part away. And I will strengthen Uiee m tho Lord; and they ehftll walk up ud down in hi«< DBinc, saitb the Lord." While i thus maintaiin the ttpecmlity E]ihratiin'ft vocation la the latter times to do th^\ Lord service as a man or war, I deny not the like! unto Judah, when she shall have been delivered out of the bondage of the fourth moDarchy by ibe might of Ephraim. and the outcast tribca- Pop' though Ephrdini^ no doubt^ be in captivity and ertiel bondage vomewhere, yet is it not within the bounds of the daughter of Babylon: whej« Judafa is held in sore and igt^ominioufl thraldom. There ti\c v\ssyriQn, the last head of Babylon, tho personal Antichrist by whatever name ye call him who shall rule the ralion^, must first be broken * before the tribes uf Judah and Benjamin can put forth their prowesi^: and of a long time he bath been ordained to fall upon the holy mountain bcfofC that Shepherd whom the I.ord will appoint over Israel, After which, that Judah Mill be called upon for her arm, as well as all the other satntit of God« in inanifeKt from all the Scriptures which speak of these things : and from none more 'than from the first part of xhi^ very chapter, whtn ^thc future decda of Judah are celebrated io oo mean terms, beginning at the 3d verse. " Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds," who shall then have the rule and government in the ■thnrch; "and I will punish the ^^ts" in thai [ay of judgment, when the goats, or apostate ^flock, shall be upon the left, and the sheep upon 'the right hand of the Judge; " for the Lord of Hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah. vi.j OH TUK TtV TRIfiEt. 1171 and bftUi roftcte Ihem ua liw goudly borsc id ibe hattlc/^ upon wiiich be witl Hde