P R 0 S 0 P 0 P E I A. Book I. Power of God, and that he creates and preferves all Thing&, as if they were unknown to me, but the very Creatures t,rcirly inform me of that. See Job ix. 10. Rom. i. 20 , Job xh. 29. He (the Leviathan or Whale) /augheth at the Shaking ofa Spear, thar is, he cares Mt for rt. Prov. xxx. 25. 1heAnts aT! a People notftrong, &c. Verfe 26. The Conies .are but a feeble People_: &c. Jocl. i. 6.. For a Nation is come upon my La11d, ftrong and <vztho1f{ Number, &c. 1 he Speech here IS of Canker Worms, Locufts or Caterpillars menti~ned, Verfe 4· and which by the fame Mc~aphor are called the great ArmJ of God: Chap 11. It, 25. By the fame Reafon the Mulmude of L ocufts are reprefented as an Army. Prov. xxx. 27. Neh. iii 17. Hieron. upon Joel ii. thus writes. '!his we Jaw lately in this Province. (viz. Paleflrne) For when whole·Troops of Lomfts came, and filled the Air between Heaven and Earth, they flew with fo great an Order by the Difpofal of God . whq comma;zdtd them, fo tbatlzke /quare Stones plated by the Hand of an Artificer i11 aPave– ment, they kept their Places, that not one was obferved to incline to the other by any tranf 1)erfe or trregular Mot1011. Th1s was a great Pum01mtnt qpon enormouti Smners, which J.1ofes in God's Stead threatens, Deut. xxviii 33, 39· and Solomon prays againft, I Kings yiii. 37· and Pliny himfelf a H eathen Writer, Lib. xi. Cap. 29. acknowledges the Anger of the Gods bytheMulmude ofthefe Infects; fome with the)e Words ofScrip– ture, parallel Virgil's Words, of Bees, Lib. 4· Georg. Magnanimofque duces, totiufque ex ordine gmtis, Mores & ftudia, et populos, et pr$/ia dicam. And. of Ants. It nigris campis agmen, pr.edamque per herbas Convectant ea/le angufto, pars grandia t'udunt Ob1;i'fe frUii"ll(a humeris, pars agtpi~a cogunt, Cajligantq~e t;wras, &c. Lib. 4· .iEneid. To this Clafs may be referred when the ·ward Son is afcribed to Beafts, as Exod. xxix. 1. 'l"ake a young Bullock the_ Son of a Cow, fo the Hebrew, that is, a fucking Calf or one not yet weaned : Gm. xllx. 11. The* Son of an Afs is put for its Colt or Foal, Zech. ix. 6. 4 Colt the* So11 of A./fes, that is, one of the She Alfes, according to the ldiorilin of which fee belowt. By another Reafon Rams are called the~ Sons of Bafhan, D eut. xxxii. 14. that is, fat Ram~ of the Breed of Bafhan, becaufe that was a good Place for fattening. *A Hand is attributed to a Dag, Pfal. xxii. 20. * To a L ion and a Bear, 1 Sam. xvii. 37• In general a Hand is afcribed to every Beaft, Gen. ix. 5· In which Places Power and Strength i' to be underftQod, efpecia)ly and more eminently in the !aft. See Gram. Sacr. p. qH. It is faid, Prov. xxx. 28. The Spider taketb hold with her Hands, that is, with h-er Feet, which ar,e on either Side fo pliable as a Man's fiand to fpin their Web, and feize upon their Prey. _Junirts. 3· Some Things are fpokon of THINGS g•·owi11g out of the EAR 'l"H, which pro– perly belong to M~n, as .Levif. xix. ~3. .(lnd when }e .fha/1 come into the Land, and .fha/1 have planted all M anner of Trees for Food; then ye .fha/1 count the Fruit thereof "' tmcircmncifed, three rears fha/1 it be a_s uncircumcifed unto you; it fhai! not be eate~ cf. The Meaning is, that the Fruit of the three fir(t Years !J1all be a~coume<;l unclean anq rejected, as an rmcircumcifed Man was accounted unclean before God, and was not to be received among the People. And in the fourth Year t!ut Fruit was to be offered to God as a Sign of Thankfgiving, Verfe 24. but the fifth Year the common Ufe of it was allowed, Verfe 2 5. Job xiv. 7, 8, 9· Hope, old Age, Death, the Scent of W aters, are applied to the Bough of a Tree, which IS cm off, and buds again, and compared to a M an once dead, who cannot return to revive again, viz. into this Life, which was the Scope of Job, as Chap. vii. 7, 9• 10. J:<iii. I5, I6. and xix. 25, 26, 27. whe~e he evidently decl~re~ the Refurrection of the Dead to the Enjoyment of everlaft,ng L ife. Pfal. lxxviii. 4· KILLING and DEATI{, is artribmed to Plants, as he killed, (fq the Hebrew,) their Vrnes with Hail, an~ toetr Sycamores with great Hail Stones. Con- • NottJ that in thr P 'am marRtd rwitb theAjlmjl: it is not fo in our Ettglijh; hut il is fi in tht originalHthrt·W• t Gram.Sacr. p. 138. trary
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