Part I. METAPHORS FROM A HUMAN BoDY. I 55 in th~ Land, ~Kings xxiii. and xxiv. 2 Chron. xxv. and xxxvi; &c. The Sting of an In– fect metaphorically denotes the Power of Death, I Cor. xv. 55· s6. Brentius upon the Place fays, /Is a Bee that has loft her Sting nzay threaten to fti!'g, yet cannot, fo when Sin is pardoned, which is the Sting of Death, Death nzay terrify, but cannot hurt us. /fquatiles follow. By the Metaphor of Fijhing, a falling into the Hands of Enemies, and Captivity is underflood. Amos iv. 2. He (that is, the Enemy) will take yo~ a•way with Hooks, andyour Poftmty ·wzth Fijh-hooks; as !I he had fatd, you mdeed are !tke fat Kine, Verfe Ibut ye lhall be dragged by the Enemy, as if you had been ltttle }ijhes in Spite of your Pride and Fatnef>-The fame Metaphor we find, Habak. 1. 15, t6, 17. By FISHERY, Jer. xvi. o6. are underflood the Egyptians, !fa. xix. 8, 9, IO. See 2 Kings xxiii. 29. By Hunters the Chaldeans and Babylonians, fo called !rom Nimrod the Builder of Baby/on, Gen. x. 9· whoch Prophecy IS fulfilled, 2 Kt~tgs xxov. and xxv. Be~dcs this Trantlation of the Terms Fi/her and Fifhing. The Apojl/es are called Fijhers of Men, Mark iv. I9· and i. 17. Luke v. 10. the Explication is given elfewhere. SeeEzek. xlvii, Il. Of the Kinds of Aquati!es r•~n ('J'hannin) a huge Serpent and the Leviathan, that is, a great Dragon or Whale, is ufed metaphorically, Pfal.lxxiv. I3- 'J'hou didjl break the Sea by thy Strength, thou brakejl the Heads of Whales in the Waters, Verfe 14. 'J'hou brakejl the Heads of the Leviathan in pieces..... By Whales (or Crocodiles, as E zek. xxix. 3.) the Grandees and Captains of,Pharaoh are underflood ; who perfecuted the People of Ifrael, Exod. xv. 4· By the L eviathan, Phar'QOh himfelf, who with his intire Haft was [wallowed up in the Red-Sea. But that which follows, thou jha!t give it to be meat to the People inhabiting the Wildernefs, is not to be referred to the Words immediately going before, but is a Sentence by itfelf, and is to be underflood of the Manna and Jtuails, which the People fed upon. See !fa. li. 9· and xxvii. 1. C H A P. Xll. Of METAPHORS taken from MAN and what belongs to HtM. JN Man we arc to confider, what are ( 1.) Ej[mtial. '(2.) What are A ccidental. The EJ!entials are his Body with its Members: and its Union with the Soul, which . is Life. The Accidmtals are partly internal, as fame Differences betwixt Men, and their Actions of diverfe Kinds : Pait!y external, as the containing Subjefls and various Adjmzfls. Of which in Order. Metaphors from a Human Body and its Members. THE Body ~wf'-~, (Soma) is frequ:_ntly put in the New Tefla'!lenr, for the PeojJie of God· or the Church, Rom. xu. 5· 1Cor. x. '7· and xu. ' 3• 27. Eph. 1. 23. ii. I6. iv. 4, 12, 16. . v. 23 Col. i. 8, 24. ii. 19. and iii. 15. The .t.xplication of which '!'rope is eafy. And to fpeak concifely, we !hall !hew it, 1. With Refpect to Chrift the Head of the Church, and whofe Body the Church is called. ('-l As the Head is not at a Diflance from a living Body, but moft clofely joined to tt: fa there is a facred and moft myftical Union betwixt Chrifl and his Church, or Believers. (2.) As the Head rules the whole Body; and influences it with a vital Power : ~o Chrifl wifely directs, and moderates, ftrongly preferves, quickens, by Counfel mflructs, and eternally faves his Church, Eph. i. 23. ii, 16. iv. I6. and v. 23, &c. 2o With·
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