130 C|)e of O 5 ?ttte 0 ^ or, 
vation,toconfiderthatifone Hog be hurr, and he 
beginneth to grumble, all the reit of the Hogs of 
the fame company come into him; it is needlefs 
to recite any thing more of this creature, it being fo 
commonly known: now let us fee what we may 
learn from the nature of it. 1 might give Exam- 
fles of this creature, out of feveral prophane Au- 
thors; but 1 lhall only fet down one or two out of 
the Holy Seripture: the firlf place I fhall fpeak to, 
ihall be taken out of the Old Teftament, in the 
14. of DtHt. where we find the Jeivs were for- 
bidden the eatifto of Smnes fiejh ; fome may en- 
quire the reafonof this prohibition, fince, accor- 
ding to the judgement of all Phyfitians, it may be 
reckoned one of the beft forts of meats, provided 
that it have no difiemper upon it; nay they were 
not only forbidden the eating of it, but they 
were not fo much as to touch the carkafs of it after 
it was dead; the reafonsof which among others 
may be thefe. 
1. Left the Vines and Olive trees in the fra- 
grant Gardens fhould be rooted up by this vene- 
m®us creaturejfor he will not eat the tops of herbs, 
but pull them up by the roots. 
2. T0 prevent the encreafe and fpreadingof dif- 
eafes among them, who were alwayes very fubjeft 
to the LeproftC’ Swine being often troubled with 
bard fweliings, which foon putrifie, being not well 
fed. Cenradtts Gefner bath obferved that'* white 
Hens are troubled with the fame difeafe.But, 
3. The next reafon of their being forbidden 
Swines fiefti may be, that by their abftinence they 
might 
