in tE&e 'BiutejdEj or] 
fever al expolkions that aregivc.i or aiefe words » ■ 
fome expounding it oi the univttrfal peace tha? 
fhould be at the coming of and fp Jvdnh 
found it when he bound nis ^Jfes io^l to the V ;ses, 
which in time of war was not lawful to do 5 oiriers 
again do expound them thus j this iignifieih fe-. 
veral Nations, and the Vinethe Churchy tofigni-^ 
fie thus much to us, vtz,s That ( h’ifi fhould ride 
upon an' ^fsy i. e. thathe fhould gather al! Na- 
tions into his Church, which before for then- ig- 
norance and ftupidity, might be compared to wild 
feeding upon thorns and thiftles, having but 
an impure Religion. ; 
5. God commanded (-EW, 13. 13.) that the 
firil-born of an ^fs fhould not be offered to hihl , 
but that he fiiould be redeemed with a Kid, or his 
neck be broken, which the learned have expound- 
ed thus ; that although God would have the firll 
of all Creatures offered to him, as being the 
yet he would nothave the offered, becaufehe 
is a dull,, fluggifh Creature; thus we fhould have 
none in the Church that are dull andfottifh, and 
cfpecially among Minifters. 
4^ Samffon, ijndg. 15.15.) with the jaw-bpne 
of an killed many of his Enemies, and with it 
broke, open a Fountain ; Samffon being a type of 
Chrlfi, the jaw-bone might fignifie Chrifi, by 
whom we have living water, who alfo like Sarnffoit 
tubdued all his Enemies. 
5, In Saman'af, we read that there was fuch a 
Scarcity of food Kings 6 . 55 .) that an Ajfes^ 
head was fold for fourfebre pieces of filver, and 
the 
