Part I. ME T A p H 0 R s F R 0 M G 0 D; 97 Pfal. lxxxv. 10. Jvk;cy and Truth will meet together, Righteoufiufs and Peace fhall kifs each other; the Affinity and ConjunCtion of thofe Virtues or Graces is fet before our Eyes by the Similitude of Perfons, who after the Manner of their Country, do at Meetmg embrace and kifs each other, in Teftimony of Fnend1htp. He fpeaks of the Kmgdom of Chrifl, expreOing its Bleffings and Manner of Adminifirarion by this Profopopeia, Verfe 12. lr is f.1id, that Righreoufnefs lhall look down from Heaven, that ts, the Ri"hteoufi1efs of Chrill:, through whofe Merits we become jufiified before God, Rom. i. 1e7.-iii. 22. It is litid,_ Verfe •3· That Righteoujitejsfha/1 walk before him, that ts, to tefiify his gracious Commg and Prefence, !fa. l!x. 14. Judgment zs tumed away back– ward, and Jujiice jiandeth afar off: For Truth is fallen in the Street, and Equity cannot enter. Here is an elegant Profopopeia of Virtue and Piety, intimating how fcarce they are and how rarely found amongfi Men. C H A P. X. Of MET A PH 0 R S taken from God, Angels, Heaven, and the Elements; JT was faid, Chap. VI. that there lhould be a general Divifion of this Trope into the dill:inct Fountains and Clalfes of Metaphors, which with Divine Help lhall be etfay– ed in the following Chapters. The chief Divi!ion of univerfal Beings is into the Creator, and the Creatures. From the Creator we lhall produce fame. Bur from the Creatures there are Abundance of Metaphors taken in Scripture, which we .!hall endeavor to make plain. · Metaphors taken from God. AS fometimes from his Name, fometimes from his Actions. His Hebrew Name o•;,?:-~ Elobim, when taken properly, belongs to none bur the only true and eter– nal God, and becaufe it is of theplural Number, it intimates the Myfiery of a Plural– ity of Perfons in one mofi fimple Deity. See Gram. Sacr. p. 87,376. Bur metaphori– cally this Name is attribmed to Creatures alfo, as, I. ToANGELS who are endued with more eminent Power, and more abnndant Happinefs, than any other Creatures, as Pfal. viii 5· Thou baji made him a little lower than(* Elohim) the Angels; as the Chaldee, the LXX Interpreters, Pagninus, and our TranGation render ir; but we have a malt certain Interpreter, Heb. ii. 7· viz. the Apo!He who expref,ly quoting this Text fays, but thou haft made him t a little lower, .,., .,..._~ ary•>-•<, (ti par Angelous) than the Angels, fee Verfe 9· where rhe fame is re– peated. In both Places, it is fpoke of Chrijl, wid1 Refpect to his State of Humiliation; an evident Specimen is the Angel's comforting him in his Agony in the Garden, Luke xxii. 43· So Pfal.lxxxvi. 8. and xcvii. 7, 9· where the Word, Elohim, is put for Angels, as it exprefsly appears, Heb. i. 6. The Meaning is, that there is no Power fo fublime but mull: be fubjeCt to the Sovereignty of Chrifl's Kingdom, 2. To Men of emhtent Dignity and his Sub.flitutes on Earth by whom God governs; judges, informs, and helps Men, as if he had metaphorically called them Divine Men. Gen. vi. 2. 'The Sons of God Jaw the Daughters of Men, &c. The Chaldee renders it, [Sons ofgreat Men J or Grandees: Pag;linus, the Sons of Princes. Brentius in his Com– ment. up~n the Pl.1ce, thus expounds it, :j: The Sons of God, are the principal Sons and Heroes ot the Patriarchs, in whofe lfands becaufe of the Right of Primogeniture and other G1fts of God, the chief Authority was lodged, and who in DoCtrine and Example ought to go_ before others, as the Princes and Heads of the People, as Judges and Pnnces are 111 other Places of Scri?tllre called Gods. Bm the Daughters of /'.1en were etcher Women of the Families of the Cainites, or without Diflerence any Maids or • The Gods. t Or a little while inferior to. :t Filii Dcifuntfilii Patriarcharumj.rtt'cipui, f.:f Htrot;, penes (jiiOS era/, &r. cc Women
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