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fuch a Garment; but I am apt to believe that it 
was made only of Camels hair. 
2. Concerning the fafiiion of it, fome do en- 
quire what the feafon is that Elias (whom John 
mentioneth) is faid to be a hairy man, and girt 
with a girdle of leather about his loyns, 2 Ktng. 
1. 8. which was the better to defend him from 
the extremity of the weather, he being a man 
that was often in the wen Air, and in the Wil- 
dernefs; and therefore johu the Baptlfi would have 
his Garment like the Garment of E/ias ; and 
therefore Limners now adayes do not well in re- 
prefenting Joh» wrapt in a Camels skin, which 
makes him look more like a Satyr than a Man. So 
Heb, 11,37. we read that the Chriftians wan- 
dred up and down in Sbeef-%)dn%y and <j<?<f-skins, 
the benefit of which was only to keep them from 
cold, as we fee in the example of Ellas. 
G H A P. VI. 
\0f thej^yon. 
T He Lyon is a fierce and intraftaWe Creature, 
but yet famous, becaufe it hath the lhadows 
of many Vertues, which we may learn partly 
from the properryesof his body, and of his foul. 
Thofe which belpng to his body are thefe. 
|i. His bones are fo firm and folid that they are 
fcarcely perceived to have any cavity in them, and 
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