18 'Chap,3o; lei Expefitien upon the Book cf Jo B. Verf.r; skie deaddcg ( meaning Sbimei) curie my L;rd the King, let me goe over, ï pray thee, and take eff his bead. Chritt fpeakes at the fame rate ( Mat. 15. 26. ) It is not meet to take the Children: bread, and to caff it to dogs ; that is, to vile perlons or to the Gentiles , who were then adefpifed people, yea not a people. ( Mat. 7. 6.) Give not that which is holy untodigs ; that is, to prophane men, who are the vileft ofinen. At this day, the Jewcs and Turkes call any that are nor of their religion, dcps. And it is the cuflome ofmany Nations, to call thofe whom thr,y dcfpife or hate, dogs. The Imes called the GentiL s dogs becauíe as the, dog was an unclean creature, fo the Jenes accounted the Gen- tiles common and unclean : And that was the Apoftle Titers o- pinion of them, till God taught him another Iríf.rt (Alts to, ) The Apoftle Paul('Phi!. 3 2.) exhorts the Church to beware ofdogs; that is, of falle Teachers, who are like dogs, bemire bale and unworthy; they are filthy dogs,and fawning doge, they arealto fnarling and biting dogs ; and they are fitly called dogs, for they will take a great deale of paines, they will compats a great deale ofground, as fpannielis doe, yea as Chrift fpake of the Pharifees, they will compaffe teaand land, to get their game, or make a profelyte. Dogs are under many difparagernents all the Bible over, and it, almcft, ends with this dreadfull fentence (Revel. 22, t 5.) Without are dogs : therefo+e when fab faith, Iwouldnot have ¡et themwith the d;gs of my f%ck, he impiyeth a very low, the Iowa efteem of them ; and 'Lis probable this . was a vulgar or proverbiall fpeech in thole Countryes, to fi- gure out anunworthy man, He is not worthy re fit with thedogs ; we may give lobs fence more particularly thus ; either Non dignahar Firft , That the fathers of rhefe young men lived a worfe life,, paires pone- then the very dogs that kept his flocks. And then to fet them, re, a. e. comp- is to compare them withhis dogs, as if70b had fayd, I made as ne, a comparare good account of the dos of m flock as of fuch men, or m cum nib, g g y y ceâis ;mi. dogs lead as good a life as they, and feed as well as they; you Vrvu G,utuír may read their bill offare, or how they were dieted, v. 3, 4. t(g ra e létun Óc fecoadly, fecing lob would notfee :ken with the dcgs of bit d Hot. lib.=. oc!¿ ít thews they were as vile, as vile could be, not only fuch as FsP,i(t. t. were of the loweft rank and courfeft fort ofmen, but fuch as were below the loweft, and courier then the courfeft of men; aios fic for any good mans company, no nor for any mans com- pany,
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