662 Chap. 41. an Expofìtion upon the Boskof ,) o B. Verf.r, fignifies a D;agon. Infomuch chat there two word?, Thannin and Laviathan,are taken in Scripturep:omilcuouíly(Pfal.74,13,14.) Thou breakeft the heads (Thanrinim) of the Dragons in the waters ( we put Whales in the Margin, Arias renders the Text fo) then followeth in the next verfe,Thos breakeri the heads of Leviathan in pieces, &c. meaning in both verles Pharaoh and his Cap- tains, who purfued Ifrael,not only t),but into the Red.fea, and were drowned. Thus alto chef two words are tired (Ifa. 27. r.) where, Leviathan, the piercing (or croffing the fea like abar) Serpent, even Leviathan the crookedSerpent, whom the Lord willpn- nifh with his fore, and great, and long fiord, as'tis Paid in the former part of the verfe, is the fame with the dragon that is in the lea, whom he will flay, as 'cis Paid in the latter part of the verfe, Some of the fewifh Writers difiinguiih theft two ;only .in growth or greatnefs, defining Leviathan to be a great Thannan or Dragon. But as the word Thannin loth fo liignifie a D:agon, that yet it is often applied to lignifie whales and Sea-beaffis, be- caufe they inCome fort referable the form and flee uacion of Dra- gons ; thus 'cis laid (Gen. 1. at.) that on the fifth day God createdgreat (Thanninim) Whelks. Now (I fay ) as in Scripture the word Thannin is rendred Whale , fo Whales and Inch like great fiches are in Scripture exprefed by the word . Leviathan. And in one place (poffibly in more ) nothing elfe can be under- , flood by the word Leviathan, but the Whale or fifties of the Cetacean or Whale kind. The °Pfalmifl being wrapt into an ad- miration of the works of God, or rather of Cod in his works, fpeaks thus (Pfal. 104. 14, 25, 26.) OLord, hone manifold are thyworks !in wifdom hall thou made them them all :. The earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and widefea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both fmall and great beaftr : There go the fhips, there is that Leviathan, whom thou haft made to play there- on. Now though it be granted, that in Come places of Scripture, ocher animals, and for infiance, the Crocodile of N, ltee,maybe underflood by Leviathan, yet in this place of the Pfaim the Cro- codile cannot be underflood : For the Leviathan there fpoken of, abides in the great and wide fea, where the Chips generally go. Now though Nilus may be called a Sea, as Lakes and great Ri- vers fometimesare in Scripture, yet it cannot becalled the great andwidefea;'tis at moff but a Imall and a narrow fea, and there- fore
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