$ Defcnpti'ott cf Mtg Cteatuwsi. 107 
fafferings y then when in a profperous Conditio 
on. * 
3. We read in the 68. that falfe teach- 
ers are compared to OxeHf and their hearers to 
BhUs ix\& Calves fo that as are better than 
Calvesy fo are wicked Teachers than their people j 
and as Oxen fometimes (although but very fel- 
dom ) are feen to quarrel one with another j thus 
are Mlnifters too often ftriving for the fupremacy, 
I n Phrjgla it is reported that the Oxe» will move 
their Horns ; thus we find too often that Mimfters 
are wavering and unconftant. Ir were very eafie 
to draw morccorrolaries from the fore-cited place* 
but thefe that we have named fhall be fufficienr* 
4. We read that the j^nemies of Chrifc arc 
compared to Oxetty Pfal. 22. 13. and that for 
thefe reafons efpecially. 
I. Becaufe as are the chiefeft of Cattel • 
thus the Scribes and Pharifees were the chiefeft a- 
mong the Jews^ and moft honoured ; and as Oxr 
en fometimes will be exceedingly inraged one a- 
gainft another ; thus thefe Enemies of Chrift like 
mad Bulls thirlf after the Death and blood ofChrifi- 
fometimes wicked men are compared toOxeny un- 
•ccurtomcd to the yoak, Deut. 32. 15. for as the 
C'x will run away it he feeth any one cqme to yoafc 
him;fo the wicked fhun all good exhortations to vir- 
tue ; to CQiiciudej NaK>iaH::^en , in his fourteenth 
Oration, fpcaking of thofe feveral cxcufes made 
by thofe that were invited to the marriage-Suppcr, 
he expoundeth it allegorically thus j be that had 
bought the landj and ^as gon? to fee it j they are 
