Book IV. wIcKED MEN COMPARED TO D 0 G s. • METAPHOR. forced eo be tied or chained up, for otherwife they would do very great Mifchief: And moreover, to prevent further Danger feared, their Teed:l are fometimes broken out. PARALLEL. them from offering that \'Vtang and Violence to his People, which is in their H earts to do. And finally, to prevent their doing of further Mifchief, God doth as it were break their Teeth, that is, defrroy their Power, or put them out of a Capa– city of doing hurt. Hence David faith, Anft, 0 Lord, and fave me, 0 my Gcd; for thou h~Jt fmitten all mine Enemies upon tl:e Check-bone ; thou hafl broken the 'l'eeth of the Ungod(r, Pjal. iii. 7· X. Some Dogs are made ufe of by the Huntfm>n, eo obferve and mark his Prey, that he may feize t1pan it the more readily; and .thole are called Setting-Dogs. XI. Some Dogs will not only .fall upon Mankind, but alfo fnarl, bite, and tear in Pieces diver~ other Beail:s, though as favage and de– vouring as th~mfel.ves. X. So fome wicked M en, the Devil, tlut cunc ning I lunter, makes ufc of, to obfnve and mark the Godly and Upright in the Land; they are employed to inform againfl: them, and to difcover their holy Alfemblies, in Times of Perfecution, that others may the betrer !Cize llpon them. XL So fame wicked Mm will not only wrong, and feek the Ruin of the faithful and Gncere Peo– ple of God; bm when ony of tht ir own Tribe, I mean, ungodly and hrmifll .Ones, do offend them, ftand in their \Vay, or croiS the:n in their Defigns, Dhey will fall upon them, to their ut'er Ruin allo. Baby/on hath not only fpoiled God's People, and offered violence to Heaven, but hath ·been a Plague and Curfe to the Earth, yea, dejlroyed the Earth, Rev. xi. 18. How .have the Egyptians de!hoyed the Eg)'ptiails 1 viz. one ungodly People <Jdl:royed ano– ther, as vile and cruel as thernfelves. X II. Dogs are a greedy, cravXII. So many wicked Men, and particularly ,ing, and unfatisfied fort of Crea 4 fallt ~·~achers, are .Cuch aC·:-aving, covewus, ar.d n1res; they never know when they unCmsfied Gentranqn, fyme of them 1 they can– .have enough. not be contented with a Benefice of a Hundred per Annum, no, nor with two, three, or five Hun– 'dred ·; nay, a ThotJf:tnci will not fatisfy lame of them: And therefore ti<ey ore juil:ly called by the holy Prophet, G1·eedy Dogs, that can never 'have envugb, Shepherds that cannot underftand; they look to their ow;t !Yay, e1-·er)' one ftri his G(li;; jrom his f?<.!,tarter, !fa. !vi. 1 r. XIII. Dogs are not only. greedy and an unfatisfied fort of Crea– tllres, bm ofr~times vomiting up what lhey have eaten, they rt-turn to it.' and lick it up again. Prov. XX.V!. 11. XIII. So fame "ickcd Men are not only arredy and unfatisfied, bur having glutred themfCJves, and fi·lltd their fenfual Appttires, th<y are con– ftrained fomeimes to vomit it up; as is fa id of fuch, He balh eaten dou:n Riches, and be _/hall vo• mit tf.,em up again, ]ob xx. 25. Nay, fo like un:o Dogs are many of them, that if at any Time they vomit up, by feeming Repentance, what they have greedily an,l finfully taken, they will return to it, and lick it up again .; of fuch the Apofile fpeoks , lie is returned t• his rrt.On 'Po·mit, &c. 2 Pet. ii. 22. XIV. Some Dogs run mad, and are fo much the more dangerous and hurtful, of whom all People .labar to beware. X IV. So wicked Men, being left to themfelves, do abound fa in <he!r \Vickednds, that they run .as it were mad in Sin, care not what Mifchitf they do to themfelves or others; of whom all fober and well. minded People ought tO beware: Beware of Dogs, Phi/. iii. 2. See Wicked Men compared to mad l\Jen. X V. Dogs hve an idle and lazy X V. So wicked Men generally lead an idle fort of Life: And hence the Proand lazy Life, as is opened under the Metaphor verb IS concernrng a lazy Perfon, Sluggard. They care not to encoumer with Dif– He hath a Dog'sLife, viz. Hunficulties for the Good of their Souls, how induf– ger and Eafe. trious foever they are about the Things of the ~rarid. 1 hey labar not tor the M rat that en– dureth to eternal Life, will not take Pains for that which is Bread, but are contented with Bones, as it were, the Crumbs of earthly Comforts,. John vi. 27. Ifa. Iv. 1 , 2 , So that they have but Eafe and Q;liet here, they content 1hemfe!ves with t~e Children 1 L eavings.
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