44:s8 Chap. 39. an Fxpofition upon the Boob, of J o B. Verf. 22 of his coming. And in the Epifile of Jude (ver. t 7,18.) we have the famecaution, Beloved, remember ye the words that were fpoken before, of the Apoftles of our Lord Jefas art* t, how that they told you, there fhould be mockers in the laß time, who fhould walk after their ungodly-lufts. Take heed you be not found thus like the Horfe mocking at fear, though there be many cafes wherein it is the honour of man, efpecially, of the fervants of God, to be in this point like the Horfe, who mocketh at fear, Neither turneth he back from the fword. This latter part of the verfe is only a confirmation of what was faid before, and therefore I (hall briefly pars ir. Thole ap- pearances or reallities of danger, at which we are affrighted, caufe us to turn back ; but the horfe not being affrightedwith, turneth not back from, the fword. The Hebrew is, be turneth not backfrom the face of the fword ; further, the Hebrew isplural, from the facer of the fword. The fword bath a face, it hath (as it were ) many faces, and they all look very terribly ; therefore not to be afraid of the faces of the fword, isa high expreffion of fearlefnefs. Not to turn back from the face of the fword may have this fence, not to fear when the fword is verynear him ;when the fword looks the horfe in the face, and makes dreadful faces, then he turns not back from ir, nor yields a foot of ground. The Horfe dothnot onlymock at fear, or at things which are to be fear'd, when they are afar off, but when they are near, even, when the fword is drawn and brandilhed before hisface. To talk great words, when an enemy is far fromus, is the cowards á izebut when we fee his face, toBand toit, is the trial of cou- llm. eot.ihiii, rage. The Lionefs is avery fierce and flout creature, and yet it d. ó. c, 16, is reported, that when the is fighting for her whelps( at which time the is croft fierce and furious ) calls her eyes down to the ground, as not being u;illiag to behold the weapons or hunt- ing arms of thofe whopurfue her. But though thenatural Hi- ftorian reports fome kind of fear in the Lionefs, yet Solomon re- ports the courage of the Lion altogether fearlefs and undaunted (Provo 3o. 30.1He turneth' not away for any; The Hebrew faith, from the faceof any; we may fay, man or beafi,that is, The takes not a fiep back for any ; neither mannor beali canmake him afraid. An ancient Writer, defcribing the Lion, tells us, He never
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