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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03429	The divine cosmographer; or, A brief survey of the whole world delineated in a tractate on the VIII Psalme: by W.H. sometimes of S. Peters Colledge in Cambridge.	Hodson, William, fl. 1625-1640.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1640 (1640)	STC 13554; ESTC S104119	31,602	170

his mouth to the bridle the Ox his neck to the yoke the Cow her dugs to our hands the Sheep her wooll to the shearers He can now stoop the Hawk to his lure send the Dog on his errand teach one fowl to fetch him another one beast to purvey for his table in the spoil of others I am fallen upon a subject not more large then pleasant híc pinguescere potest oratio my lines could here more easily swell into a volume then be contracted into a manual For as Aeneas Sylvius noteth That there is no book so weakly written but it conteines one thing or other which is profitable and as the elder Plinie said to his nephew when he saw him walk out some howers without studying Poteras has horas non perdere You might have chosen whether you would have lost this time so if we would improve our most precious minutes to the best and contemplate on this great school of the world where men are the scholars and the creatures the characters by which we spell and put together that nomen majestativum as S. Bernard calls it that great and excellent name of God we should find that there is no creature so contemptible but may justly challenge our observation and teach a good soul one step towards the Creatour There is not any so little a Spider which coming into the world bringeth not with it its rule its book its light It is presently instructed in what it should do The Swallow is busie in her masonrie The Bee toyleth all day in her innocent theft The Pismires a people not strong prepare their meat in summer and labour like the Bees sed illae faciunt cibos hae condunt but these make the others hoard up meat As Vulcan is commended in the Poet for beating out chains and nets quae lumina fallere possunt non illud opus tenuissima vincunt Stamina so thin that the eye could not see them being smaller then the smallest thread So the smaller the creature is the more is the workmanship of God to be admired both in shaping using thereof Our God is as cunning and artificiall in the organicall body of the smallest creature of the world as of the greatest And what application we may make thereof I shall have fair occasion given me again to treat of when I come to consider the Fowls of the aire and the Fish of the sea In the mean time having selected this Psalme for my meditations on Mans Lordship and Sovereigntie over the creatures I proceed according to the Prophets method and from his Omnia subjecisti from some generalls come to handle some particulars and as he hath ranked them in order I will next declare how the Lord hath put under his feet all Sheep and Oxen and the beasts of the field SECT. 7. THere be beasts ad esum and ad usum Some of them are profitable alive not dead as the Dog Horse serviceable while they live once dead they are thrown out for carrion Some are profitable dead not alive as the Hog that doth mischief while he lives but is wholesome food dead Some are profitable both alive and dead as the Ox that draws the plough the Cow that gives milk while they live when they are killed nourish and feed us with their flesh Yet none of them is so profitable as that quiet innocent harmlesse creature the Sheep Whose every part is good for something the wooll for raiment the skin for parchment the flesh for meat the guts for musick In Sacrifices no creature so frequently offered in the Sinne-offering Peace-offering Burnt-offering Passeover Sabbath-offering and especially in the daily-offering they offered a Lambe at morning and a Lambe at evening Num. 28. Lorinus observeth out of the Fathers why a Lambe was so continually offered namely as a type of the offering of Christ who in eight and twenty severall places of the Revelation is called the Lambe of God For the name of Sheep notatissima est dicendi forma saith Bucer in the 34. of Ezekiel the Prophets are thirteen times called Shepherds and the people one and twentie times called Sheep In what honour the name function and person of Shepherds hath been is every-where apparent through the sacred Scriptures A Shepherd was the first tradesman though the second sonne of all the children of Adam And after Abel many Shepherds were in near attendance upon God A Shepherds life saith Philo est praeludium ad regnum ideò reges olim dicti sunt {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Of which phrase Homer and other Grecians have made use The old Testament hath none in more esteem then Shepherds Moses that kept Jethro's sheep Jacob that kept Labans sheep Amos a Prophet taken from the herd Moses a Priest and a Prophet from the sheep Elisha the Lords Seer and you know whose spirit Elisha had yet taken from the cattel David the Lords Souldier and who ever got such victories as David yet fetched from the fold and by the choyce of God destined to the Throne When he had lien long enough close among his flocks in the field of Bethlehem God sees a time to send him to the pitched field of Israel where at his first appearance in the list with that insolent uncircumcised Philistine whose heart was as high as his head he takes no other spear but his staff no other brigandine but his shepherds scrip no other sword but his sling no other artillerie but what the brook affords five smooth small peebles and yet by these guided by an invisible hand he overcame the Giant Afterwards when the diademe empaled his temples his thoughts still reflected on his hook and harp All the state and magnificence of a Kingdome could not put his mouth out of taste of a retired simplicitie As a Musician often toucheth upon the sweetest note in his song pavin or galliard so our Kingly Prophet in diverse Psalmes but especially in his three and twentieth which we may call his Bucolicon hath most daintily struck upon the same string through the whole hymn There have you Shepherd sheep green fields still waters wayes pathes valleyes shadows yea the rod and the crook But more then all this God the Father is called a Shepherd Psal. 80.1 God the Sonne doth name himself a Shepherd John 10.11 God the Holy Ghost is named a Shepherd and Bishop of our souls 1. Pet. 2.25 These very terms of Shepherd and Sheep have led me farther than I thought besides the waters of comfort The night hath now furled up her sails and a clear thin cloud laden onely with a light dew besprinkleth with drops the whole earth like pearls which sparkle as little eyes in the faces of the flowers and plants The glorious Sun is now unlocking the doore of the morning to run his race The winged Choristers of heaven do now begin to prune and pick themselves and in their circling