VEa '·7r8• An Expofition, 'With Notes do things contrary to their fiercenefs, and natural-difpofitions • E· lephants to crouch, Horfes to dance : but mao·is .3:nelov . ./lv1'~£7ttx,fiel>~v,as Plata called him,a beafl: that will. not eafily-come to hand. We fe~ in children muc~ fiubbornnefs, e_re they~ometo be ripened \ andllabituat~d .in fin : Ama~ would chi~1.lv the-i~indi~~dqos iho~ld be. more.flexJble ; but f()IIJ u boundup. en., th.Pt« .ht fln!if; Certam– ly mans Wilt is the tougheft jinew in the Whole CPeation. ~ ob[ervat. 4• 4· Art ~nd skjl! to jubdue creatures, is a relique ttnd argument m _sana ius hu of ot4r old Jlt periority. m The Heathens difcerned we had once a - .arumal menti(: dominion, and the Scriptures plainly affert it, (jen. !.26 . L e.t them .:- ~~: ~:~.~t;d have dominion ov er the l ow! of the·ayr, r;ver the ftfh of t he S'ctfl, hue , & qu,d ancl over all the carth,at~dover the ~attle,andover every creeping domina1i in cc~ thitJg. Next to Gods Glory, they were ordained for m;1ns fervice t era po/]it natuJ and benefit : we had aright and agrant fromGod; and therefore hiJmot(t. O v,d aH the beafis were to come to eA' dam and receive their names Mec. llb.I. h' h k" d f c lr. b ·rf! ' h" G. . d. ' w tc was a ·m o 1orma ··u mlltton to ts .ov~tinmenr, an a prefenting of their homage and fealty to him: For.the maim~inirig of this Goverl'lment, God gave man wifdom, and planted an in– fiinct in the-creatures, by which they ihould be ready to obey him, fearful of doing him harm and offence ~ and therefore whert the Grant was in part renewed, •cis fa id toNMh, and his fons, Gen9·J.• Th"fea~ and dread of youfh~ll be upon every beaft of the Earth~ ( fowls ofthe Ayr, fifhes ofthe Sett, &c. So that then A dam could converfe among the beafis without fear, (as Noah and his fons did · afterward in the Ark by fingular difpenfation,) and command them at his beck and will ; there would have been on mans part no fuch difficulty to fubdue them to humane ufes, Adam in the great wif~ dom with which he was then furniihed, knowing how to accommodate himfelf to the difpofitions of the beafis ; and on the beaUs · p:m there would have been no repugnancy. But alas, ever fiuce n ~uia per the Fall this right was forfeited, and the creatures wichcfrew them– peccatitm defdves from mans obedience, and proved n hurtful and rebellious .; Jtmtt bdmo therein reprefenting to us our own treafon& diOoyalcy: and there. um 0 b a~ . n fD ' · V t.D'a dtbrt~t,fl~:,- fore ufually ':V1lde beafis are made an In~lrument o mne en- . mt.t.t s (fl iis {ts· geance; 2 Kmg. 17. 25. The Lord fent Lyons among them. So pra qt• ai tj]"e Ez.t~14. 1 5. lr1illcauje noy{om beasts to pafs through the Land, dchtb7r• ~ug. and jpoi.l it. The infurretl:ion .and rebellion of the.creatu~es againfl: T;~~ 8· 10 us, is a memorial. ~f our unfauhf~lne~s .and rebellton aga.mfi ~od. J But yet though fhts Grant be forfo,ted, tlS not wholy cxt,nguifhe~
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