i Defcription of afutej?* 32 1 
being thus tormented with them, when lie fedeth, 
them biting fohard, he ftartethup and runneth up 
and down the fields as it he were mad; atlafth^e 
throweth himfelf upon the ground, and rubbing liis 
back againft the ground, deltroyeth the Snakes | 
but when he feeth himfelf all over bloody, he run- 
neth immediately to the water towafli himlclf- 
the hatred that is between a Serfent and the fiarty 
is not only while alive, but after he is dead ; for a 
Strfint if he fmell a Hans-horn burning, Vvill get 
away from it ; this is alfo to be obferved concern- 
ing the Hart, that when the wind bloweth he al- 
wayes runneth againft it,, becaufe if he run with 
the wind it would carry the feent of him to the dogs. 
Thus we have finifhed what is very neceflary to be 
fpokenof the nature and properties of il\QStag % 
i {hall now fpeak to the feveral corollaries or infe- 
rences that may be dravp from thenatureof it | 
there arc many fimilitudes which the Holy Scrip- 
ture fetcheth from the Stag, which I find menti- 
oned very often in profane Authors ; I fhall content 
my fdf out of many to colleft fome few, and among 
thofc many places in Scripture where we find ment 
tion made of this Creature, I think this which! 
fhall here begin with, may be accounted the chief- 
eft place, v-k., PfaL 2a. a. where we find the Son 
of God compared to the Hind of the Morning', where 
obferve, i. He is not compared toihtHart, but 
to the Hind, becaufc the Hind is the weaker Crea- 
ture ; thus we find, Cant. 5.2. It is not, Gtmellm 
mens, of male twinns, butGmc//**, female twinns, 
l^i^caufe the lovethat Females have for females, is 
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