Chap. 6. "In Expofrticn upon the Backe ofJ O B. Verf, 5. 43 A wild man, that is, mild among men or as a wild als a- mong, men; flrong and a6live, delighting in fields and for- i=a-)N2 - refis. Onager inter ' Doti, the wilda(s ( faith job ) bray when be bath grafs ? honineif. b." Whet: the als bath meat he is quiet ; you hear not of him : but dao erit q y ter l ä inei j if he want grafs he brayer, and makes a difmal noife '( Jr. j 4. cut Onager to. 6. )The wild afes did /rand in the high places, they muffed up boreprrv,- the wind like dragons their eyes did fault, becaufe there was lent. no gray freaking ofa time of drought and famine ; The wild als is very impatient, bothofhunger and thirfi. And therefore the rivers are ( by name ) affigned to them for drinke, Pfal. a 04. jo, ir.He fendeth the fprings into the valleyes, which runne among the hills; they give drinke to every beat of thefield ; the wild af- fix quench their thirft. Hence wild aifes are obferved by natural Hiilorians to delight in,- and frequent rivers and fprings. To which that prophane fi6ion of the Roman Hiftorian(in abaft Corneli rudoes of the Jews) bath relation;who (peaking of the travels ofthe If- tiv' 1. ar= radius, through the wildernefs, tels us ( to obfcure the miracle which God wrought for them ) that they being ready to die with thirfi, at lati efpied a company ofwild aifes upon a rock : which advantage Mofès tooke and prefently followed them, knowing they would lead him to the waters, if any were to be had in thofe parts. In purfuance of which lie, Plutarch airmes, that the Jewes worfhiped an afs, as a Deity, which they had in fpeci. Plutarch. i< g, all honour and veneration,.for that famous deliverance. Upon el ánu this flock of lies, the Heathen grafted that . ufual fcorne againfl gueß. 5.111' the Chriflians, That they worfhipped the head of an aft. as that great aßèrtour of the Chriffian honour againfi Heathenifh ca- Tcrtul.adverf. vilsand hellifh imputations hathobferved. Gentercap.i5 But, that is a harmelefs and a witty obfervation (how folid I leave the reader to judge) which bath been hinted from thisna- rural thirflinefsof the wild afs: namely,that the Lord gaveSamp_ fonwater out of thejawbone of an afar, Judg; 15. 19. thereby advancing the miracle, that a dead bone of that thirfiy creature fhould be made a fpring of water to revive him,who was ready to diewith thirfi. The intendment ofthis digreffïon, is only to cleare up the text, by (hewing that the wild als is mofi fitly inflanced in, to chew the great cute which Job had to cry out ashe did ofhis afili4ions.; for. >-
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