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1. Dogs only wait at their Matters table, expeftiri^ 
what may fall ; thus, the ignorant Gentiles had no 
other comfort but this, that they Ihould expeft 
what God had promifed them, faying, in thy feei 
Jhall all the Hattons of the Earth he hlejfed- neither 
did they defsre to be preferred above ttie Jewsybnt 
were very well content with what the t)ounty and 
goodnefs of God did give them ; Children often 
fportthemfeives with little dogs, hence it is that 
we read, in the Proverbs^ oiU'ifdome (i.e. the fon of 
God) /porting her /elf among the fans of men j and 
we fee that children take great care of Dogs, and 
will feed them if they can get it ; the Heathens 
did continue long in their primitive ignorance and 
ftate of darknefs untill Chritt came and deliver’d 
them ; Dogs will bemoan themfelves when be- 
reaved of their whelps; and it is the greatett trou- 
ble to good men to fee their children drawn afide 
from the truth ; although, I mutt confefs. Dogs 
as well as mott other beatts have a great love for 
their young ; yet, I doubt, we may find fbme per- 
fons who, likefifhes, leave their fpawn in the wa- 
ter, never minding it afterwards what becomes of 
it. V 
4 He will not leave off barking and howling un- 
till his Matter give him fomething t thus, the 
manitijh womauj and every true Ghrittian, ought 
to be conttant, perfevering in duty. 
AHothe Dog will be fo fierce that be wiU 
flye upon any ttranger, yet when corrected by his 
Matter, will hang down his tail : thus all true Chrn 
ftians, when in peril and trouble, will cry out with 
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