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28. And the Heathen fhall know that I am the Lord, who fanctifie them, when my Sanctuary shall be in the midft of them for ever.

Ch. 38. The coming of Gog from the North, the chief Prince of Mefbeck, (Cappadocia,) and Tubal, (the Iberians,) I will bring thee forth, and all thy Army, Horfes and Horfe

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5. Perfia, Ethiopia, Libya.

6. Gomer and all his Bands, the House of Togarmah of the North Quarters; (Gomer is the Galatians,) Magog the Scy thians, according to Jofephus. All these are now Mahometans.

8. In the latter Days thou shalt come into the Land brought back from the Sword, and is gathered out of many People, againft the Mountains of Ifrael, which have been always wafe ; but they shall dwell fafely all of them.

9. Thou shalt come like a Storm, and like a Cloud to co ver the Land.

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11. Thou fayeft, I will go to the walled Villages, and them that be at reft,

12. To take a Spoil and Prey, to turn thy Hand upon the defolate Places, that are now inhabited, and upon the People that are gathered out of all Nations.

13. Sheba, and Dedan, and the Merchants of Tarshish, to carry away Silver and Gold.

16. In the latter Days I will bring thee againft my Land; that the Heathen may know me, when I shall be fanctified in thee, O Gog, before their Eyes.

17. Art thou he, of whom I have spoken in old time, by my Servants the Prophets of Ifrael, that I would bring thee againft them?

19- There shall be an Earthquake.

20. All Creatures and Men shall shake at my Prefence, and the Mountains be thrown down, and every Wall shall fall to the Ground.

21. Every Man's Sword shall be against his Brother.

22. And I will plead against him with Peftilence, with Blood, overflowing Rain, great Hailftones, Fire and Brim fone; that is, hunder, or Fire-Arms.

23. Thu will be known among many Nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

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Ch. 39. I will leave but a fixth Part of thee; and thou shalt fall on the Mountains of Ifrael, and I will give thee to ravenous Birds, and the Beafts of the Field ro be devoured.

V. 6. I will send a Fire on Magog, and them that live carelefly in the Ifles, and they shall know that I am the Lord. These may be the Grecians; habitabunt infula in pace,whenGog is deftroyed. If this be the true fenfe, Gog is the Turk, who now has the Ifles, and Greece in his Kingdom. (Vide the Sept.) 8. This is the Day whereof I have spoken;

9. They shall burn the Weapons of their Enemies 7 Years: II. They shall bury Gog and all his Multitude, and call it the Valley of Hamon Gog.

12. Seven Months shall the Houfe of Ifrael be burying of them.

17. The Beafts are called to this Sacrifice upon the Moun tains of Ifrael, to eat Flesh and drink Blood. This is likė the Deftruction of Antichrift, Rev. 19.

21. I will fet my Glory among the Heathen, and all the Heathen shall fee my Judgment.

22. So the House of Ifrael shall know that I am the Lord their God, from that Day and forward.

23. They fell all by the Sword. Note, all the Ifraelites are deftroyed, and muft rife from their Graves to return. 25. Now will I bring again the Captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole Houfe of Ifrael.

28. I caused them to be carried into Captivity among the Heathen; bat I have gathered them into their own Land, and have left none of them any more there.

29. I have poured out my Spirit on the House of israel, faith the Lord God.

Ch. 40. v. 1. In the 14th Year after the City was fmitten. 2. In Vifion the Prophet was brought into the Land of If rael: And he fet me on a high Mountain, by which was the Frame of a City: And the Prophet to the End of his Prophecy gives a Description of a Temple for the Judaic Worship, and of a City four square with 12 Gates; and gives the Divifion of the Land amongst the Twelve Tribes

Note, The City was built before the Ten Tribes Return, as Ezekiel and Efdras fay; and the Antriftian Multitude must be deftroyed before they all returned, as appears in Ch. 39. v. 25. and the fame appears in the 66th of I

faiab. Daniel, after the Deftruction of the Four Monar chies,and Little Horn, fays, The Saints that shall poffels the Kingdoms shall obey Chrift: And ch. 12. he mentions the Refurrection: Therefore the State of the Jews after their Return, to the Resurrection, muft be diftin guished from the Millennium, and the Reign of Chrift, which was revealed to St. John; the want of which Diftinction makes many believe, that the Millennium is only a profperous State of the Chriftian Church. But this State will not continue more, if fo long, as one or two hundred Years: And 'tis only a Collection of the beft of the Jews, who are to be prepared for their Admiffion into the Millennium. We know by the Re velations, that 144 thousand Jews will be fealed and admitted into the Millennium.

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HE Defign of all the Old Prophecies was to predict the Ruine of Kingdoms, the Affyrian and Babylonian Empires, and the Perfian, Grecian, and Roman by one another, and at laft to fet up a Kingdom of Saints. So Jeremy, ch. 1. v. 10. is fet over the Nations and Kingdoms, to deftroy and throw down, to build and plant them; and fuch Events are often reprefented by Symbols, that they might be more readily remember'd; or elfe delivered more obscurely, where too plain a Description was dangerous to the Prophet, or Jews. Efdras has added to the Civil Hiftories refpected in the Prophecies, the 12 Cafars, represented by the 12 Wings of the Eagle; and after them, the Three Heads of the Eagle, the Conftantinopolitan, Saracen, and Turkish Empires. Daniel and Zachary defcribe the Revolutions in the Empires, as well as Bfdras, which were to happen after the Captivity and Return of the Jews from Babylon; but the other old Prophets reprefent the Jewish History, and that of their Neighbour Kingdoms, the Syrian, Samàritan, Judaic, Ægyptian, the Kingdoms of Idumaa, Moab, Ammon, and the Phili, Tyre, Sidon. All the great Changes are described in the Qld Prophecies, till the End of the Babylonian Empire And he Hiftory relating to these, and the Chronology, may be cañly found in Dr. Prideaux's Connection of the Hiftory of the Old and New Tefta

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Teftament, or in Marshal's Chronological Tables: And fince we have fuch useful Writings, let none now complain of the Obfcurity of the Old Prophecies, nor of the Obfcurity of the Revelations; fince they must be explained by the paft Hiftory in the 4th Empire.

The Hiftory of our Saviour was to come in the Times after the Prophets, during the 4th Empire; and we find, they declare his Birth of a Virgin at Bethlehem, his Perfon defpifed, his Preaching and Miracles, and his Sufferings, and this before the Deftruction of Jerufalem by the Romans. Efdras calls him the Son of God, and that he fhould be declared within 400 Years, and then die.

The future Hiftory of the Jews yet to come, is defcribed by the Old Prophets. Judah is to return furft, and build Sion and the Temple, and enjoy a profperous Kingdom, till the fecond Coming of Chrift, and the Refurrection of the Juft: Then the Ten Tribes muft return; and thefe Two Returns, and the 'Deftruction of Antichrift, the fecond Coming of Chrift, are moft clearly defcribed by Efdras, and their happy State in a Paradife, and a glorious City (free from Death, and all Calamities) builded on our Earth with great Plenty.

The Old Prophets ought to be read in their Chronological Order; firft, Jonas, then Foel, Amos, Hofea, Efay, Nahum, Micah, Feremy, Zephaniah, Habakkuk, Daniel, Ezekiel, Obadiah, Efdras and Malachi, Haggai, Zachary; and the Sense of the Old Prophets will be better underftood by the Septuagint, than by the English Translation.

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It will be very useful in reading the Old Prophecies, to obferve, that Idolatry and great Immoralities, were the reasons, given for all the Revolutions in the Kingdoms mentioned and that the falfe Prophets were punished by Death, and the House burnt in which they facrificed to Baal. Captivity was the Punishment of Idolatry, Luxury and Drunkenness punifhed by Famine, Oppreffion by War; and they who carried away Captives, were to be taken Captive; Pride of Inhabitants, and Jollity, are punifhed by Want and Mourning.

Whenfoever any Deftruction was threatened, then God promised that he would not utterly caft off the Nation of the Jews; but

ners; but ad only cut off the Idolaters and obftinate Sin

ners; but ar iaft would reftore their Captivity, to enjoy the Land, because of his romife to their Fore fathers. God commanded Zerey, ch. 30. to write in a Book the Return of Ifrael and Judah, v. 7, That Day is a great Day, none like it; a troublesome time to Jacob; but he fhall be faved from

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