a Dtictiptim of liin'tig Cteaturei?. 
yiSi that are a kind of Goats, which are I'wifter than 
any of the former; for they go to mnt early in 
the morning, and do as it :ere leap upon their 
prey with an incredible .violence; thele are found 
in great companies upon Mountains ; in the Win- 
ter time they areTo venturous, that they will come 
into Cities, and there will go up and down very 
quietly untill they can fee a Goat, &c. wh-rh they 
will greedily fall upon, and run away with ; this 
may feem to haverefpeft to that Prcphefie of the 
fatriarch) Benjarmn ravine like 
a Wolfi in the morning he jhall devsfir the frey, and at 
evening he jhall divide the fpojie- alcboagli iome 
would have this to lignifie the coveroufnefs of the 
Benjamites, yet I can fee no reafon for it, betaufe 
they were not fo cruel ; and belides, what argu- 
ment could that be of their covetoufnefs, who 
though they took their prey in the morni' g, yet 
he divided it again at night: the Holy Fathers 
therefore do make this to be a predidipn concer- 
ning the HolyApoftle St, Patti, who was of the 
"VtibQoi Benjamine ‘ for he in the morning, _ that 
is in his youth, was like a cruel and devouring 
Wolf; but at the evening, towards his old age, 
he gave food, the bread of life, which he diftribu- 
ted to the Heathens ; thefe things being premifed, 
any one, from what hath been faid, may deduce 
very ufeful corollaries, fuch as thefe, i. The f^'elf 
isfaidtoaftonifhamanfo much, that he takcth 
away his Voice and fpeech ; thus wicked men do 
rob the Saints of their wonted purity, yet they 
will taslk of great things* for alwaies amonglb 
wicked 
