iWciiptiatt of 177, 
4. Some dogs fleep, all the night-time, and go 
about in the day, thefe are very mifchievous. 
5. The Dog will eat his own vomit, and is fub- 
jeft to many Difeafes, but efpecially they are apt- 
eft to grow mad ; and when they are fo, what- 
foever they bite they make like therofelves; it is 
a fign when a Dog will grow mad, it he will not 
eat what he ufed to eat, and will purge at the no e 
and mouth, and is very dull and heavy, barking at 
every one they fee ; Hefychias faith, that all dogs 
have very hard deaths ; and thus we have fhewn 
both the good and the bad properties of thC'Dog j 
the Holy Scri^tures^hoih in the Old and New Te* 
ftament, draw many inferences from the nature of 
this creature, which, although they be very many, 
yet I fhall facisfie my felF, in fpeaking to two oiily^ 
one out of the Old Teftament, and another out of 
the New j that out of the Old Teftament, is Jttdg. 
j.^.’wben Gideon had brought a vaft Army againft 
the Mldianites ^ left if the Jews had overcome 
them they fhould have afcribed it to their own 
ftrength and valour, the Lord faid unto Gideon^ 
Every one that lappeth the water with his tongue as 
the Dog lappeth, him (halt thoH fet hy himfelf j lik^’^ 
wiffy every one that boweth down upon his hj?ees ttS 
drink^: there were left but 300 of 2c6oO. and thofe 
few were crowned with vidory ; a fit Symbole of 
the Eleft, who get the viftory over all th^ir ene- 
mies ; and thofe that drank water, reprefent thofe 
that received the Sacrament of ^4pt//^,and fo are 
lifted among Gods Souldiers. 1. As there were a 
great multitude which drank, yet w,ere rejefted 
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