f64. Celts6oe: pe- dun longitudi- n,v, 6 36o. latitudinis in jlumen .flra- bi.r Jump tradit Plinius 1. 32 c. r. 1Yfufculuspif- esduxcm- rum orulorurn vicefungitur: Páin.l.6.c.z. Chap.g.o. als Expofitton open the Bookof 3 o a. Verf. 2. the Ancients concerning the bignefs of Leviathan, are almaft be- yond belief. One reports their bodies as big as four acresof ground ; that theyappear like mountains or fmall iflands in the lea ; that forne being meafured, have been found fix hundred foot in length,and three hundred and fixty in breadth : And that, leaf+ they íhculd come in (hallow waters, or be foundred by com- ing too near any (hoar, they have alwaysa little fi(h,called Wrf- cn/ns, for their guide or leader, which is to them inl+cad of eyes, Lace Navigators, and they who make it their bufinefs to follow the Whale- fi(hing, have Peen Whales of very vaft dimenfions,., and that fometimes they endanger the overthrow of confedera- blc (hips ; which argues their extraordinary iirengch and great- nefs. Heathens have faid, that though it catinot be denied, but there are many wonderful creatures to be feet) upon the land, yet the fea is the great Bore-houfe of wonders :. And we may give it in chele three things.. Firft, It is wonderful, that in the fea there are fuch various kinds of fiLhes. h is not imaginable how many forts of fifh the fea affords. I once heard a very learned Gentleman, anda great Traveller,fay, that being abroad upon"publick fervice, and enter- taining theAmbaffador of another State at his table , the fun was wholly of fifh, and the fifh were only (hell-fifh variouffy cookt, every dial having the (hells laid about the verg of it, the fifh being taken out ; yet the Ambaffador could not give aname to any one of them,having never feen their like in any part of the world where he had been. Now if a wife knowing man, atfo great a feaft, could not give a name to any one fhell-f,(h before him,what variety of kinds is there inthefea,take all together! Secondly, 'Tis wonderful to confider , the hugemultitude which is of every kind of fifh in the lea. The kinds are exceed- ingmany, and there are innumerable of every kind: Thirdly, That is wonderful, which I am now upon, the yea- Les, the grearrefsof fotne kinds. Not only is Leviathan, but fe- `veral other fifhes of the Sea, bigger than anybean upon the land, Let us confider the greatnefs of the creatures,to leadus into the confider:aion cf the greatnefs of God. How great, how mighty is.thst.God, who bath made fuck grear, fuchmighty creatures ! Secondly,
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