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not be a UavcoXs^^ix, God will not make a final end 

 now : no, ' a remnant shall be left, as the shakmg 

 of an olive-tree, and as the gleaning grapes, when 

 the vintage is done;' Chap. xxiv. 13. Nor shall 

 they be only preserved, but restored too : * The 

 Lord God will in time wipe away every tear from 

 off all faces, and at last swallow up this death too 

 in victory ;' Chap. xxv. 8. He will turn their cap- 

 tivities, and rebuild their city and their temple 

 too ; and all this shall be as it were * Life from 

 the dead, as the Apostle calls it, so miraculous a 

 re-establishment, at a juncture so improbable, 

 when they are destroyed out of all ken of reco- 

 very, that it shall be a kind of resurrection ; and 

 so like the great one, that it is described t in the 

 very proper phrases of that,' both by the other 

 prophets and by ours too a little below the text, J 

 ' Thy dead shall live again ; my dead bodies shall 

 arise: Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust, 

 &c.' And then (which is of nearest concern to 

 us, and to our present business) the Prophet 

 directs the remnant that should escape how to 

 behave themselves under so great a desolation ; 

 and he contrives his directions into a threefold 

 song (that they may be the better remarked and 

 remembered) tuned and fitted to the three great 

 moments of the event. 



The first, to the time of the ruin itself, Chan. 

 xxiv. where, having set before their eyes the sad 



* Rom. xi. 17. t Ezck, xxxvii. Dan. xii. 



X Ver. 19. 



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