3q6 Chap. 39. an Expoftiorsupon the Book of Jo B. Verf. 9, whole matter in general : 1 Thal! now open the particulars men- tioned about this unferviceablecreature the Unicorn. -Verf. 9. ',Pill the V ,icorn be willing to ferve thee t t9°l The Original word tianílated unicorn, denotes an animal, dicing ao1°i high and Ilately. It comes from a root which fìgniftes tobeex- quod alms efj aired or lifted up ; and hence David (mfal.9a. to. )teaifyidg fBnffrat.7;lo` his alfurance that God would lift him up out of his troubles, and nlribeoceros co p to;Jair: deliver him from his reifures, compares his hoped for exaltation t rms fed altum, n'de cl to that of the Unicorn : NIy horn halt thou exalt like the horn of oppellatioejrn. an Vnicorn, I !Tall be anointed with frefh oil ; that is, I (hall have new and fuffi ient fupplies of grace, and gifts, of j9y and confolation. This word (R,ee;,a) which in the Hebrew bears only that ge- 1,06rtapms.7o. neral fignification Highnefs, is rendred by the Seventy in Greek Vni:ornw. .lvionaceroe,and by the Lariats Vnicornis, both which anfwer our Lat. Englitla term Vnicorn ; the notation of all rhefe words in the Greek, Latine,and Engliilh imports a beall with one horn,where- as (I fay ) the Hebrew word imports only the highnefs or noble- nets of that animal or'beall intended under it. Atïi(1.l.2.de Natural Hillorians, in their defcriptions.of, and difcourfes Big. Animal. about the beaks of the earth, make report of an Indian Aft with c a. one horn, as alfo of Indian Oxen with one horn, which may 1.Plin.i.sc.z:, therefore, according to the fence of the word, be called Vni- u> c'37` corns. Our late Annotators feeni to incline, that by the word Rgem here rendred Vnicorn, is meant the wild Bull rather than the Unicorn, becaufe asche wild Al's is here oppos'd to the tame, fo the wild Bull feems to beoppos'd to the Oxe, which is a tame creature and fitted for thefervice of man. Rwi Rhinoceros slet TheVulgar Latine tranflarion reads it, the Rhinoceros, and fo ervire 9 loth one of the Greek inter ,and in our Engli(h tranfh- fervire tibi _ p Vula. Lion (If& 3 4, 7 .. ) we put the word unicorns in the Text, and ptróxfpror. Rhinocerot, in the Margin. The notation of whichword ( Rhino- Aquil. cerot) imports a beaft with'a horn on his nofe or fnout. The Rhi- noceros is a large bear+, near in bignefs ( fay fome) to the Ele- Eafil'inPfal, phanr, only fhorter in his legs. And the defcription or characcler which one of the Ancientsgives of the Rhinoceros, is very futa- ble to, and Both fullycorrefpond with that which the Lord gives here in this Text of that favage beaft (gem) by us `rendred the
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