Chap. 30. An Expolftion open the Book! ofJos. Verf. I. 17 woofe fathers I would have difdained to have fet with the dogs of my flock. We may take thefe fathers,either for their immediate fathers, or for chofe at a further remove, any from whom they were de- fcended may be comprehended under their fathers. This relative . Terme Father, is a name, firft of age ; fecondly, of honour ; thirdly, ofvertue, it imports gracioufneffe, wifdome and gravi- ty We may fuppofe Ancients or Fathers fully f#ored with treafures of wifdome and knowledge, of grace and goodneffe. And hence, force by Fathers here underhand, fuch of them as werewifeft and of greateft underftandirg , or fuck of them as were b:ft and of greateit experience. But I rather take the word properly for natural) fathers. who( fathers I would have difdained. The word imprts loathing, or naufeating, which is properly DI.* a troubleforne affection of the hom.ack at unplenfing meats; Reproaibam, as if ?ob hadPaid , I was ready to (pew or vomit at the fight or ham ,e e. thought of them, they were a barden to my foaled I looked up- 1,121, sr.ücie- on them as loathfome creatures, and therefore unworthyof the bam cumfaf i meaneft place or office ; even tohave let themwith thedogs ofmy die. flock; that is, to have appointedor difpofed them with the dogs of my flock. Dogs are accounted the meanelk of creatures, though force dogs have many very good qualities in them , and Cane quit fa- are very ufefull, which hath given occafion to very grave wri- amanti, g ü d.mino ? quit tars to (peakmuch in their commendation:yet in Scripture fpeech ftdelior comes and fence, a dog is a terme, not only of force diminution, but of quit cuffos in- utmoft difgrace. When elifha prophefied what fad and black corruption ?quis work Hazael would make in the world, he anfwered with high ezcuhit teve- eft indignation (zKings 8. i 3. ) what it thy fervant a dog )antler ? yui, that he Ihould doe this great thing; he fuppofed the Prophet had deniq; ultor out the loweft opinion of him, when he foretold that be.fhould ad vindexconlfan- fuch cruelties, and himfelfe knew no lower expreflìon of that tio'.Cohomel: _cNanet H ot fin ecruàre low opinion which the Prophet might have ofhim, then to to e polehimfelfe a dog. We have a paralel place (aSam. i 6.9.) peffre na--m Then laid "bifbet thefoxof Zerviale unto the King, Why ¡hauled Virg: D this
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