Part I. AN A N T H R 0 P 0 P AT II Y; ment, Numb. xxviii. 4· The Appellation of a MORNING HIND, is thus expounded, 'r.JiZ. By ir is denoted a Hind, which the Hunters? In t.he Mormn~ when It go~s abroad to feed lie in wait for, rake, and flay; fo Chnll: With Ius Difciples gomg aoroad m Judra i~ the Morning Seafon, rhar is, in. the Beginning of his King;dom, or the firll: Beamin'-"S of Ius Divme and evangel1cal Light, to the Paflures of Life, (not fo much to feed himfdt~ as to adminill:er to others) was hunted by the Devils, anci by their fei– ting Dogs rhe Jews, and his Apoflles. being as Hinds difperfed, he was at lall:taken and fiain by them which feems to be mumated, Verfe 16. For Dogs liave compaffed me the Affembly ofrhe Wicked have inclofed me, they pierced my Hands and rily Feet. To this Phrafe fame apply the Search that Herod made for him even in his Infancy, and his being driven into Egypt, Matt. ii. 14, 15. And the Gathering together of the chief Priell:s, Scribes and Elders of the People early in. the Morning to condemn Chrijt, as Mark xv. 1. And as the Morning Hind is not taken and fiain meerly to dell:roy it, as Wolves are wont to be killed, bur that it may ferve for pleafant Food: So Chrift in the Sacrifice of his Crofs and Death becomes moll: fweer Food of Life and Salvation for us, to be facramenrally and fpiricually eaten. Upon which Mufculus fays thus-0 F,lejh of Chrift truly like that of a Hind's, but more exceedingly fweet to the faithful Soul, than any 'l'hings the Nobles of this World tajle in their greatejl Dai11ties. And that there may be nothing wanting to give it a delicate Savor and Relijh, he was not meerly jlain but well turmoiled, hunted, and tired before, as our great Men are wont to do in hunting and chafing their Deer before they kill them, that the Flejh may become more fweet, tender, anddelicate, &c. Adding, and fee how agreeable this Comparifon is to the Death of Chrift, for as the Side of the purfued Hind is expofed to the Hunter's Dart, Chrift's Side was upon the Croft pierced with a Spear. Pfal. xxii. 6. Chrifr calls himfelf a WORM, with RefpeCl: to his debafed State, and the extreme Contempt to which he was expofed in the World ; upon which Franzius in the aforefaid Book, Pag. 826, fays, Sicut vermis habetur pro viliflimo excremento, &c•. /Is a fVorm is accounted a mojl vile Excrement, which Men will not fa much as handle, or if they do will wajh 1beir Hands after it, and if they fee them lie upon the Earth will remove them from the Sight of Jvlen; fa was Chrift treated with extreme Co11tempt, when he hung upon the Croft. It may nor be am ifs here to infert the Paraphrafe of*Weidnerus upon Prov. xxx. '9·' Difficilia mihi funt ifta tria cogflojccrc: Viam /lqui!a: in Ca:lo. h. e. Viam Chrifti afcendentis in ca:lum cum carne affumpta, &c. Thofe three Things are difficult for me to know: The Way of an Eagle in the Air, that is, the Way of Chrijl afcending into Heaven, in his human Nature: The Way of a ~erpent upon a Rock, that is, the Way of Chrill: from the Crofs to the Sepulchre, which was cur out of a Rock, and from whence he rofe the third Day, whence Chrift himlelf fays, as Mofes lifted up the brazen Ser~ent, &c. The Way of a Ship in the Middle of the Sea, that is, the Way of Chnll: palling through the World m Tempefrs and Storms. The 'vVay of a Man with a IYiaid, that is, the Way of Chrill: in his Incarnation in the Womb of a Virgin, &c. It IS added, Verfe 20. The Way of an adulterous Woman, that is, the Treacheries and Machinations o_f the Synagogue againfr Chrift. See Burgenjis upon !fa. vii. Addit. 5· Fol. 21. What IS fpoken of the Eagle by Gregor. Nazianzen, t is accommodated ro the Deity of Chtift, which is ineffable, as D. Franzius cites it, Page 327, &c. 2. Some Actions of living Creatures afcribed to God. AS ROARING, which is the Property of Lions, Joel iii. 16. Amos i. 2. by whicfl the Power and Efficacy of his Anger, and his Word is intimated. See/lmos iii. 8. Hofea xi. 10. !fa. v. 29, &c. Upon which Illyricus fays, it is a Metaphor, for as the Voice of a roaring Lion is ternble to all other living Creatures, fa Men o_ught to be moved and tre mble, whn the Divme !VIaje!l:y fpeaks to them from Heaven by Thunder and L ightning. • De pr~tipuis jidti ft{;jler. TraEI: ii. p. 256. t Super Orat. 6. de Spir. S, X Jer:
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