he was loaden with fait. Heroiottts faith, thjat 
Crmftisvi&s callQd A Mule h:^ the Oracle , becaufe 
his Father was a Terfianj and his Mother a Lyiianz 
but he not underftanding it, could not believe that 
that Oracle fliould fo highly affront him, oh whom 
he had beftowed fo many gifts .• but his mifunder- 
ftanding of the Oracle had like to have been his m- 
ine .• the more curious may read the Story at large 
mthe Book of Herodetus. looted before, out of 
^Uan, concerning the Indian ^psy which they 
could not bring into their Cities, becaufe of their 
leacbehafnefs ; nay, they could hardly be kept off 
from alfaulting the women themfelves : and there- 
fore, thofe Monfiers that we have now been fpeak- 
ing of are not alwaies miraculons : and therefore 
I very much dommend the judgement of Thalet’m 
Tlmarchy of whom we fpake but a little above. 
Thefe creatures may referable thofe men who 
either in the Churchy or in a War yovon neither fide, 
but ftand as Neuters. The Jews were forbidden to 
let th&x Cattel gender with divers kinds. Lev. ip. 
They were alfo forbid to till their fields with an 
Osee and an ■^ffie together i and a? they were not 
to few the ground with mixed grain ; fo, neither 
were they to weesr a garment made of linnen and 
woollen : by all which we are to learn what we read. 
Mat. 6 . to avoid the leaven of the PharifeeSy 
which theP/«/m}?exponndeth thus, that we fhould 
not fiand in the eounfel of the ungodly .'In former 
times the Grecians condemned thofe perfons to 
dye, who in time of Wat , or any other difiurbanccy 
did not take one fide or another ; but becaufe the 
Mule 
