' of this prince will be limited by the laws • of Mofes; and, instead of laying any taxes

on the people for the fupport of his dig'nity and public expences, he is to have' those confiderable poffeffions in the land ' allotted him,' which were before mentioned.

. Now the land of Ifrael is very good ⚫ and fruitful, and the character God gives of it is this, that it is a good land, a land flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands: And Mofes tells the Ifraelites, it is a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, that Spring out of • vallies and hills, a land of wheat and barley, • and vines, and fig-tree., and pomegranates,

a land of oil-olive, &c. Exodus iii. 8. • Deut. viii. 8. It is fituated in one of the beft fclimates of the earth, extending from 31 to 34 degrees of north latitude. • The fun rifes at Jerufalem, in the midst of fummer, about five in the morning, and fets at feven, and in the shortest days, in winter, rifes and fets vice verfa. This fituation,

fituation, where it is joined with a good foil, is generally free from the exceffes of ⚫ heat and cold, and thereby is the best fitted for the pleasure and delight of human life, as well as fuited to the conftitutions of • mankind. It is alfo the best fitted for the kindly ripening of all forts of corn, for producing the best wines, and for bringing to perfection the different fruits of all the various parts of the world; both those which grow in the colder countries, and those which feem peculiar to the hot ones; and, moreover, fupplies plenty of grass for cattle.

Having fhewn that the land of Ifrael is very good and fruitful, fituated in a happy climate, and that the Ifraelites will dwell there in peace and fafety for fome years after their restoration, we next enquire who are thefe enemies of the Ifraelites, that will then come up against them, with the confequences of this invafion. The chief or head of them is called Gog by Ezekiel, who is particularly pointed out

by these distinguishing characters, his be

ing of the land of Magog, and the chief prince of Mefbech and Tubal, the ancient Pontus and Cappadocia, now fubject to the Turks. The army alfo of Gog is to 'confift chiefly of horfemen, which is re'markably true both of the Turks and Per• fians.

The fame power feems to be prophefied of by Daniel xi. 40 to 44, under the character of the king of the north. For the 'greatest empire north of the land of Ifrael

is the Turk, who has overthrown and deftroyed many powers, and poffeft himself of • Conftantinople, and the caftern empire; he has the glorious land, or the land of If

rael, in a great meafure under him, and

has intirely fubdued Egypt. The Libyans, that is, the people of Barca, are at his 'fteps, or under his influence. So are alfo the Ethiopians, that is, the Arabians near Egypt, and along part of the coafts of the Red Sea, in the Stony and Happy Arabia.

• While Edom, or the wild Arabs, who • live

live fouth of the land of Ifrael, and Moab with the chief of the children of Ammon, that is, the Arabs on the east of Jordan, and the Salt Sea, have escaped out of his hands and are not at all subject to him.

We are told in the next place, that tidings out of the east and out of the north, fhall trouble him, therefore be shall go forth

with great fury to deftroy, and utterly to • make away many. Daniel xi. 44. If then the Muscovites, or fome northern power

were to unite with the Perfians, against the Turk, we might probably fee him • much troubled, and go forth with great

fury, and with great armies to destroy many; and this perhaps may be the time for the restoration of the Ifraelites to their ' own land. Some years after their restorati

on the Turk will come up against the land ' of Ifrael, and will plant the tabernacles of

his palace in the glorious holy mountain, or

' at Mount Zion, but shall come to his end

there, and none fhall help him. Dan. xi. 45.

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But to return. Befides the Turks, we find feveral other people will join themselves to him, to invade the Ifraelites, as Perfia,

though at present they are at variance with each other; fo alfo Libya, or the nations ' on the coast of Barbary in Africa, Ezekiel 'xxxviii. I to 8. With these alfo will be joined Ethiopia, that is, the Arabians near

Egypt, and along part of the coafts of the • Red Sea, in the Stony and Happy Arabia. • Gomer, alfo, and all his bands, with the boufe of Togarmah of the north quarters and ⚫ all his bands; both which people were originally feated in Natolia, and the neighbouring places in the leffer Asia, which ⚫ are now fubject to the Turks.

These then are the nations, that will come up in the latter days against the children of Ifrael, who will then have

'been fome time brought back from the

fword, and gathered out of many nations, wherein they had been difperfed, and restored to their own land. They shall come from the northern parts, and shall

• afcend