62o Chap. 40. An Expo/itien upon the Bookpf Jo s. Verf. 16. And hisforce in the Navel of his Belly, As much as to fay he is fírongevery-where;he is thong inback, and thong in belly.The.Navel is the firengthof the lower parts of the body,as the loin of the upper.TheNavel is as the center of the body,thereis a colligationor knitting of feveralveins and arteries, which pals from thence into leverai parts of the body , as Anato milts obferve. There is fo much force in the Navel, that it may well be called thefecondfeat offlrengtb.When the Lord would ee courage us tofear him,anddepart fromevil,he makes this a motive (Pray.; .8-.) It(ball be health to thy navel,andmarrow to thybones; that is, thou (halt have much health and firen;rh, much cornfor.t, and fweetnefs inthy life. His force is in the Navel of his Belly; His f}rength is not in his horns to dohurt, as the Bullsand Uni- corns ; nor in his claws, to tear,as the Lions and Bears ; but in his Loins and Navel. As ifthe Lord had faid , Ibave placed the flrength of Behemoth , where it may be mofb.ufeful orferviceable, and lea51b;hartful :Ihave endowed andfarailhed him withwonderful rength.; but how,andwhere.? Not in any offenfivepart , his bead bath no horns, bisfeet no claws, to do mifcbief with ; but to the end bemight be moreferviceable to man inbearing burdens , Ihavepla- ced it chiefly in hie Loins and Belly. Yet faith the learnedBochartus , This latter part of the verfe clothnot agree with the Elephant , feeing both Pliny and Solin:sc teach us, that the Elephant bath indeed a very hard skin uponhis back, but a loft one under his belly; whence it is (faith he) that the Rhinoceros fighting with the Elephant, aimes chiefly at his belly, which he knows is his rendereft parr. He givesmany other proofs of this,as alto that the Hippáporame bath a skin fo extreamly thickand hard, that 'Lis even impenetrable. To this I may anlwer , That though itbe granted that the Hippop tame,hath a very hard skin all over his body, and not at all denied that the skin of the Elephant is fofter by much under his belly, than upon his back ; yet it cannot (in my underfiend- ing) be hence concluded that hehath noragreat force in the Na- va of his Belli. For thoughhebath not a hardneffe there tore- fil} the point either of anatural or artificial weapon , yet he have may
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