To these, let us adde that, which the same Prophet speakes, in ch. 12. ver. 4. _That knowledge shall be encreased_; for then the prophecies shall better be understood, the meaning of which we can scarce attaine to, till they be fulfilled. So after the _Otteman_ race began to flourish, we understood the prophesie of the two leggs of the Image of _Nebuchadnezzar_, which is to be overthrowne by the fifth Monarchy, which shall be in the World. So _Jeremiah_ after he had handled in Chap. 30. the redemption of _Israel_, and _Judah_, and of the war of _Gog_, and _Magog_ (of which _Daniel_ also speakes in ch. 12.) when he treats of the Scepter of the Messiah the son of _David_, of the ruine of the Nations, of the restoration of _Judah_, of holy _Jerusalem_, and of the third Temple, he adds in ver. 24. _The fierce anger of the Lord shall not returne, till he hath executed it, and till he hath performed the intents of his heart; in the latter dayes ye shall understand it._ From whence followes what we have said, that the time of redemption is at hand. And because _Jeremiah_ in that Chapter makes an abridgement of all things that shall be, therefore it is said in ver. 2. _Write thee all the words which I have spoken to thee in a book._ By this meane making the Prophecie clearer, by relating in a cleare style, whatever the Prophets had fore-told; imitating _Moses_, the last words of whose song are, _Sing, O ye Nations, with his people_, in _Deut._ 32.43. Also the last words which he spake, after that he had blessed the Tribes, are these, _Happy art thou, O_ Israel: _who is like to thee, O people? saved by the Lord, who is the sheild of thy help, and the sword of thy excellency; and thine enemies shall be found lyars to thee, and thou shalt tread upon their high places_, in _Deut._ 33.29. From whence it appeares, that God will revenge the bloud of _Israel_, which had been shed. _Joel_ confirmes the same in ch. 3.19. _Ægypt shall be a desolation_, and _Edom shall be a filthy desert, for the violence, and injury offered to the_ Jewes, _and because they have shed innocent bloud in their Land_. And as they shall be punished by the just judgement of God, who wish us evill: so also God will give blessings upon them who favour us. And those are the trees of the field which then shall rejoyce. So God saith to _Abraham_, in _Gen._ 12.3. _I will blesse them who blesse thee, and curse them that curse thee._ _SECT. 37._ These are the things which I could gather concerning this matter, which hath not been heretofore handled; from whence these consequences may be deduced. 1. That the _West-Indies_, were anciently inhabited by a part of the ten Tribes, which passed thither out of _Tartary_, by the Streight of _Anian_. 2. That the Tribes are not in any one place, but in many; because the Prophets have fore-told their return shall be into their Country, out of divers places; _Isaiah_ especially saith it shall be out of eight.