4- C|ie Of 'BjtttejS 5 6 r; 
tnatthe troft is calleci upon to prail'e God. Blefs 
the Lord ye whales, and all things that move in 
the water praife the Lord , blels the Lord; ye 
fowls of the air , blefs ye the Lord; man by the 
beholding of creatures is thereby induced to praife 
God, if he conlider, 
1. The different nature of Creatures, theic 
beauty , magnitude i and agreement one with 
another. 
2. The benefit of them, the being 
not ufeles to man. 
3. The wonderful providence of God that is in 
the generation of creatures , in the places where 
they live ; of which “job lelleth us, Chai^. 3^. 
40.41. 
4. Tlte conftant ufe that feveral creatures arc 
of to mankind, which they might eahly avoid if 
they knew their own ftrength : God hath alfo 1 
commanded them to ferve man. Gen. i. repeated 
alfo after the flood. Chap 9. 2. to have Dominion 
over the of the Earth, 
5. The wonderful obedience of the c*'eature to 
God. Th\xs Herod. Lib.z. \n Sennaeherihs sxvo.'py j 
the Enemy being great , they defpaired of 
viftory , in one night the mice deftroyed 
their flaields and arrowy, fo that the ncjcc day they j 
were forced to fly. Thus we fee moft of Pharaohs 
plagues were inflidled by Brutes : and no lefs 
wonderful is the Hiflory of Balaam's A(s, Numb, 
22, and of the CroK> which fed the Brephety and i 
of the beares which deftroyed thofe’ that mocked 
the Prophet. 2 . iGug. 2 . 24. thus wc fec the be- | 
befit & ufefulnes©f this knowledge, (PHAJP» 
