Howbeit he meaneth not fo^ neither doth his Heart
think foj lut it is in his Heart to deftroy and cut off
Nations not a few.
Thus much at lead is evident : It is no new
Thing, that great Enormities fliould produce great
Humiliations, and thefe again noble Virtues, which
have often recovered both fingle Men, and whole
States, even in a natural and civil Senfe, And if
the Captivities, Diftrefles, and Defolatioos of the
Jewilh Church, have occafioned their Return to
Cod,, and reinftated them in his Favour ; nay, if \t
was aftually foretold, whenever they lay imder the
Curfe of God,' at the Mercy of their ]pnemics,

Jlfiu X. u. *Ifa. X, 5, 6, 7.
peeled



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peeled and icattered in a foreign Land, that J^ever-
thelefs upon their calling his Covenant to Mind,
and returning to him, -f" The Lord their God would
turn their Captivity^ and have CompaJJion upon them.
