AN ANT HR 0 P 0 P AT H Y. Book I. Wood) come upon them, (that is, Jhall I not defervedly fave that Iron Rod of my Son as a Jharpened Sword !lmongtt them, and fo, rather deal with them as open Ene– mies, than tranfgreffing Children?) fays the Lord God. So much for that Place. But obferve that as Ezekiel alludes to the fecond Verfe of that Pfalm in this Place; fo !fa. xiii. 14. alludes to the latter Part, he Jhall break it as the Potter's Vellel, &c. in a like Defcription of Punilhment upon a ftubborn and refractory People. ' C H A P. VIII. Of METAPHORS tran}lated from other Creatures to Goo. THE Things exil1ing in Nature befides Man are either animate. or inanimate. The animate are fuch as have a Jenfitive L ife, as Beafts; or a vegetative, as Plants. From Beafts are taken and attributed to God, 1. Certain Names of living Creotures, as when Chrift is called a LAMB, J cbn i. 29. Rev. xiii. 8. becaufe he was made an Immolation or :O,acrifice for the Sins of the whole World, which the Sacrifice of Lambs in the Old Tdhment typically pre· figured, 1 Cor. v. 7· 1 Pet. i. 16. Rev. v. 6. as alfo with refpect to his Mildnefs, Pa– tience, Innocence, and Beneficence, &c. See Ifa. xvi. t. 2 Sam. viii. 2. with 2 Kings iii.4,&c. Chrifl: is called a LION, Rw. v. 5· Behold the Lion of the 'l'ribeof Judab, bath over– come. He is fo called, becaufe of his great and Divine Forti rude in his Refurrection from the Dead, and his Victory over the Devil, the World, and Hell. D. Franzius, in Hijl. A11imalpag. 73· Gm. xlix. 9· fays, *'The whole Po/jty of the Jews is called a Lion, and a L ion's Whelp, becaufe of the great Firmnejs of that E111pire, which m dured evm until Chrijl's 'l'ime, and was cjleemtd then the mojl famous among the Gowrnments of the World; and although in fome refpeftive Seafons they had Kings, eminent for Power mtd Wifdom. Yet Chrijl only is called a Lion ( x•? '~'X"' or) by Way of Eminency, that is, he -a;as the mojl powerful, moft wife, and moft excellent of the Kings, that ever ruled i;r J uda, &c. And Drufius, lib. x. p. 41 o. The.Lion of the Tribe of Juda, whofe Coat of Arrtror was a Lion, which was painted in the Banner of that Tribe in three Colours; with thefe Words, Arife, 0 Lord, let fuch as hate thee be jcattered, and thine Enemies' /iy front before thee, &c. . The Coats of Armor of the four principal Tribes of Ifrael, as R. Kimchi, on Ezek. i. u!t. recites them from the 'Talmud, were thus, In tbe Banner of J udah the Shape of a Lion, according to that which is written, Gen. xlix. 9· Judah is a Lion's W help. In the Banner of Reuben, the Shape of a Man, according to what is faid of ir, Gen. xxx. J 4· And Reubenfound Mandrakes in the Field, whicb are of a Man's Shape. In the Ban– ner of Ephraim, the Similitude of a Cow, according to Deut. xxxiii. 17. His Glory is like·the Firjlling of his Bul!ock or Cow. And in the Banner of Da;z, the Shape of an Eagle, as it is faid, Gen. xlix. I 7. Dan jha/1 be a Serpmt by the W ay, and it is faid here, as Ifa. xxx. 6. The Viper and fiery flying Serpent. Pfal. xxii. In the Title, Luther and other Interpreters fay, that Chrifl: is called l1J'N Ajeleth, the Morning Hind; upon which fee Luth. 'l'om. 2. L at. Jen. Fol. 23R. Illyri– cus in Clav. Script. Col. 112, 113. D. Gerhard. Harm. Hijlor. pajjionis Dominic<C, Cap. 7· p. '310. D. Franz. Rift. Animal. p. 163, &c. To which alfo fome refer, the Chald. Parapbr. which fays, for thy everlafl:ing and Morning Sacrifice, by which the End or Reafon for which this affii<'led Hind was llain, feems ro be fairly expreffed. For the Oblation of Chrilt upon the Crofs is truly an everlafling and a moll: perfect Sacrifice, Heb. x. 1 2, 14, 26. It is called the M~rning (Hind) becaufe his Virtue and Prefiguration, be– gan about the Beginning of the World after the Fall of our firlt Parents, R ev. xiii. 8. Heb. xiii. 8. typified by the Morn ing Sawfices wont to be offered in the Old Tefta-. • '!'otapofitia Judteorum didtur ltof3 (afttll.ls ltoniJ, propter /umm.J.mfirmitaltl1l ipjiru Imperii, &c. ment,
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