are fo fully come to pafs, as is evident at this day, that every perfon who gives due attention to the facts must be ftruck with the correfpondence.

You will farther obferve the peculiar folemnity, and affection, with which thefe judgments are announced. Had Mofes been literally the father of the whole nation he could not have expreffed himself with more affectionate concern. Deut. iv. 25. And when thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and Jhalt have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourfelves, and make a graven image, or likeness of any thing, and fhall do evil in the fight of the Lord thy God, to provoke him to anger, I call heaven and earth to witness against thee this day, that ye fhall foon utterly perifh from off the land whereunto go beyond Jordan to poffefs it. Ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be deftroyed. And the Lord fhall fcatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the Heathen whither the Lord fhall lead you, and there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone,

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which neither bear, nor fee, nor eat, nor fmell.

This is a fubject much dwelt upon by this eminent legiflator and prophet; and in other paffages of his writings fome more circumstances attending thefe great calamities, and this total difperfion of the Ifraelites, are mentioned. In Lev. xxvi. 31, he fays, Ye fhall eat the flesh of your fons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat, and I will make your cities wafte, and bring your fanctuaries to defolation, and I will not smell the favour of your sweet odours. And I will bring the land into defolation, and your enemies fhall dwell therein, and be astonished And I will fcatter you among the Heathen, and I will draw out a fword after you, and your lands fhall be defolate, and your cities wafte. Then fhall the land enjoy her fabbaths, as long as it lieth defolate, and be in your enemies land; even then fhall the land reft, and enjoy her fabbaths. And ye fhall perish among the Heathen, and the land of your enemies fhall eat you up.

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Deut. xxvii. 25. The Lord fhall cause you to be fmitten before your enemies. Thou

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Jhalt go out one way against them, and fhalt flee feven ways before them, and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. Ver. 36, The Lord fhall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt fet over thee, (And will obferve was written before the Ifraelites had any king, and when their constitution did not suppose any) unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, and there fhalt thou Serve other gods, wood and fione. And thou shalt become an aflonishment, and a proverb, and a byeword, among the nations whither the Lord fhall lead thee. Ver. 47, Because thou fervedeft not the Lord thy God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things, therefore fhalt thou ferve thine enemies, which the Lord fhall fend againft thee, in hunger, and in thirft, and in nakednefs, and in the want of all things; and they fhall be a yoke of iron upon thy neck until he has deftroyed thee. The Lord fhall bring against thee from afar, from the ends of the earth, as fwift as the eagle flyeth, a nation whofe tongue thou shalt not understand, a nation of fierce countenance, which shall not

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regard the perfons of the old, nor fhew fa vour to the young. And he fhall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be defroyed. And he shall befiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedft, throughout all the land. Ver. 62, And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the ftars in the heaven for multitude, because thou wouldeft not obey the voice of the Lord thy God. And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from one end of the And among earth even unto the other. thofe nations fhalt thou find no eafe, neither Jhall the fole of thy foot have reft; but the Lord fhall give thee there a trembling heart, and fainting of eyes, and forrow of mind. Ver. 68, And the Lord fhall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee. Thou shalt fee it no more again. And ye fhall be fold unto your enemies, for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man fhall buy you.

The manner in which both the Ifraelites in distant ages, and strangers, who shall see the accomplishment of these awful pre

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dictions, shall be impreffed by them, is particularly mentioned by this prophet, Deut. xxix. 22. The generation to come, of your children that fhall rise up after you, and the franger that fhall come from a far land, fhall fay, when they fee the plagues of that land, and the ficknesses which the Lord fhall lay upon it ;—even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? What meaneth the heat of this great anger? ? Then men fhall fay, Because they have forfaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers which he made with them, when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt. For they went and ferved other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curfes which are written in this book. And the Lord rooted them out of this land in anger, in wrath, and ́in great indignation, and caft them into another land, as it is this day.

The well known hiftory, and present ftate, of the Jews make it unneceffary

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