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augments which fell upon that People ofJews, beyond all that ever before fell,P°n them, or indeed any ether People,they^nd it necessary to employ those High andss a gical Phrases of the passing away andsolving Heaven, and Earth, and Elements,that this was the manner of the Pro-may be proved because we find the1. suction of other places described in asJ'gh Strains, as lofty and tragical ExpreseJ® ns as this of Jerusalem, l or example,^ of Idumtea, hai.34.9. The streams there-J shall le turned into pitch , and the dustrs re °f into brimstone, and the land thereofle come burning pitch. It shall not le^jfnehed night nor day , the smoke thereofy'hl go up for ever. And in the fourthhe seems but to Preface to this Destru-v lo u in these words , And all the host ofof aven shall le dissolved, and the Heavensfll l e rolled together as a scroll: and all theirsf s shall fall down as the leaf falleth offthe Vine , and as a falling tig from theJ&'tree ; for my Sword shall le bathed ine aven Behold it shall come down upon I-And in the Burden of Babylon ,t fP‘ iz. 8, 9. we have these words, BeholdJ€ day of the Lord cometh , cruel loth withI ¥ct th and fierce anger to lay the Land defo-ate •* For the Stars of Heaven and the Con-stellations