An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

forasmuch as the sense of the discourse of God about him, is as if he had said, Seeing among those beasts which are prepared by men to help them in their work, and whose labour they ease in tilling and subduing the earth, the Ox is chief, as being mans most laborious helper in husbandry, and which in most Countries is more used in it than any other beast, according to that (Prov. 14.4.) Much increase is by the strength of the Ox. How comes it to pass, that men do ⟨p. 356⟩not make use of the Reem for those services, seeing he is of the same kind with Oxen, and so may seem to be made by nature for that purpose as much as other Oxen, and is by so much the fitter for that service, than any other Oxen or Bulls whatsoever, by how much his strength is greater than theirs, yet no man attempts to use him in it; or if any did, it were to no purpose, forasmuch as I the Lord of nature have created this beast, as also the wild Ass before spoken of, altogether untameable. This seems to be the meaning of God in his discourse about the Reem. And hence also it appears, that the Reem is not the Bisons, seeing he, as well as many other wild beasts, being skilfully handled, proves tame and gentle, and may be formed to the use and obedience of man. It remains therefore, that this Reem is the beast called Urus, because this property of untamableness is ascribed to that beast. Caesar in his 6th book of the Gallican war, saith, The Uri, no not the young ones, will not be tamed by men, wherefore being caught in pits, they are killed. Pliny also saith as much of them, Lib. 8. cap. 21. And as in this particular, his untameable wildness, there is a full agreement between the Urus and Reem, so those other things which the Scripture speaks of the Reem agree to him also, as those foreign Authors witness, who have written his History. For Cesar writes, that he is in bigness, little less than an Elephant, but of the kind, colour and figure, or shape of a Bull. And Pliny in two places (lib. 8. cap. 15. lib. 28. cap. 10.) names wild Oxen as the Genus, with respect both to the Uri and Bisontes. The learned Doctor adds many more proofs out of ancient Authors, which the Reader may peruse, if he please, at his leisure. And from all he concludeth, It is not therefore to be doubted, but that the Reems are the Uri;

forasmuch as the sense of the discourse of God about him, is as if he had said, Seeing among those beasts which are prepared by men to help them in their work, and whose labour they ease in tilling and subduing the earth, the Ox is chief, as being mans most laborious helper in husbandry, and which in most Countreys is more used in it than any other beast, according to that (