Chap. 39. an Evpo/ition upon the Book of ] o B. Verf, 8. 345 And elfat he cares not to be fed or provided for by man, that he looks for no reward from man, is fee down in the latter part of the verfe ; Will he abide by thy crib ? Secondly, The ffubborn liberty of the Unicorn is defcribed in this context, more particularly, by his refufal of that ípecial la- bour which is neceffary in husbandry, or for the tillage ofthe grcund, in the whole compafs of it ; and here are three parts of that labour fee down, all refuted by the Unicorn. Fir a,The ploughing of the ground in the i or verfe;Canfl thou bind the Vnicornwith his band in the furrow ? He will not go to plough. The fecond labour with which beafis are wrought in husban- dry, is harrowing the ground ; the Unicorn will not touch .bar, as'eis laid in the dole of the loth verfe , Will he harrow the valleys after thee ? No, he will neither plough nor harrow,he will do none of chele works though he have ltrengeh enough to do them, as appears ( verf. r r. ) Wilt thou trufl him, becaufe his flrength is great ? or wilt thou leave thy labour tohim ? The third part of husbandry, about which beaus are ufed, is the bringing of the Corn in, or the home-bringing of it ; the Unicornwill lend no help to that work neither, as is (hewed in the c with verfe , Wilt thou believe him that he will bring home thy feed, andgather it into thy barn ? Thus the Unicornwill neither ferve in general, nor do any of there particular fervices ; he will neither plough nor harrow, nor bring home the feed. The Unicorn is a buff unfubjea ro, and unfubduable by man, yet fubjea to God, and by him eafily fubduable ; for (as the Apoftle fpake in another cafe, Phil. 3. 2r.) Fle is able to fabdue all things tohimfelf. We may conceive, the feope and intendment of the Lord in rutting chele queftions to yob about the Unicorn, was to Phew, that if he could not tame or reduce fuch a creature as the Uni- corn to his Plow and Harrow, then he muff not think of bring- ingGod to his bow, who made both the Unicorn and man too. Surely God will be at his liberty,todo withman what he pleafeth, do man what he can, feeing the Unicorn will take liberty to do what heplealeth, nocwithltanding all that man can do. God will not be bound up to, nor tyed by any mans dilates, but remains foveraignly free for ever, in all his difpenfations. Thus of the Y y whole
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