Meditations and Observation s , Pheo'ogicaS

flesh of dead creatures, that they lived in dying, and d/ed inliving. And the Egyptians for the fame reason carried in theirproceffiom a vessel! of gold full of earth, which was as if a He-rald should prodaitr.e to all the asseinhlic.in the w ord? of theProphet, O earth, earths tank, heare the word of the Lord,

LXXXV.

J. U'rov'iu . Ti»e enemies of tbeChurch are compared.to Bees, feace notin Fjol. Vis■ their multitude nor their rage; they are Bees not Lions, they

:'«■ huxze, they make a noise, they have stings but they cannotdoe

what they would, their power is lelTe then their fpigbt and ma-lice, and they hurt not but. with their owne certaine death anddestruction. Belceve then God in the midst of their machina-tions, and applaud thy seise in their-tumuhuous projects, thata!!.shall be frustrate and abortive. Tulvcrts exigui jaPlu com-pnjsa (j ui esc urn.. When God pleaseth he can but blow on selse-p,id S/u.i- conceited Njmrods , mighty hunters,oppressing and tyrannical 1

h:n. d*bia £- enemies, and easily overthrow them, and crush them to the

■angelica, earth, and breake in pieces all their counsells. If Pharaoh vex

Gods people, asking, who is the Lord ? Flies, Lice, and Cater-pillers shall be his challengers and Conquerours, and aske, whox'T'barayb ?

L-X XXVI.

Honey was an usual I food for little children among thehai. 7 . yi. fetees, wherefore Isaiah faith of Christ, Butter and honey {ballS:\mtrm. e * te ' by honej some fay was designed the Divinitie of his» raft .; i. birth, and by butter his humanity.buc foolishly and besides themind of the Prophet, whose words are cleare, and the sense o-pem As if he had said, Immanuel shall not only be a true God,-but also a true man, that is, he shall feed of such meates as yourchildren use to eate of, so that his education shall be commonand ordinary, for fat and sweet meates,are usually provided forinfants, and especially honey among the Easternc people. Sothat by these words synecdochically at least is noted that hisconception shall bc.miraculous, but not his edqcation.Tbe Pro-phet