2 of oa^utcs 5 or* 
all creatures, ch. 6. v. ^o. 21, Noah in the Ark did 
not only behold the creatures , but was com- 
manded to provide food for them. Gen. 36. 34. 
We find feverai holy men in fcripture who were 
ftiephetds. Gen. 13. 57. 37. 2^ Exod. 10. 9. 
i.Sam. 16. II. J. 7 * 34 * We read that So- 
lomon wrote of FtfheSy Btrdsy and Beafts. t.KlngK 
4. 33. We read oi ^Uxundtr^ that he gave fo. 
talents to Ari^otU to inftruft him in the knowledge 
of Creatures ^ and had a 1000. men in Afta and 
Greece, who were employed infifhing and hun- 
ting > thereby to be informed of the nature of 
Creatures. Which was the reafon of Ariflotlts 
writing his Hiftory of Animals. The advan- 
tages we have from this kind of knowledge is not 
only for di fpute, but alfo for the explication of Au- 
thors as well Sacred as Prophane. It bringeth alfo 
much glory to God. 
z. Wefhallfindit veryufeful infermons. For 
from hence we may deduce many profitable infe- 
rences. It is fit to know left we commit an error • 
Democritus was laughed at by ArlBotle , who 
asking him what was the reafon that a dogalwayes 
lay upon the fame ftone » anfwered, becaufe he 
had fome thing in him like a ftone. We find 
Virgil bringing a Hart of Africa to prove what 
he laid) when there are none there • thus he 
bringeth in the wild alfes of dtalf when there are 
none there. It is no lefs ufeful alfo in the ex- 
plication of Prophane Authors as well as Sacred. 
The Prieft in the Law was very well skilled in the 
na tare of all food » he being to inftq^^ the people* 
A efthe 
