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

At first, all creatures were subject to man; not only the Horse, and the Ox, and all the now tame creatures, but the fiercest Lions, Tigers, Bears, Unicorns, were all in subjection to man, according to that sovereign power given man by God, in the day that God made him (Gen. 1.27, 28.) So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and said to them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. The original grand Charter of mans Sovereignty, was extended over the Unicorn and the Lion, &c. And therefore when creatures are not willing to serve man, especially when they rise up against man, let man remember his sin in not obeying the Sovereign command of God. Had not man been unwilling to submit to and serve God,¹ no creature had been unwilling to serve man. We may see our own neglect or refusal to serve God, in the refusal of any creature to serve us; we may see our own rebellion against God, by the rebellion of the creatures against us. Unless man had departed from God by sin, none of the creatures had departed from their subjection to man. The sin of man loosed the creatures from that bond of service to man, in which, and to which they were created.

At first, all creatures were subject to man; not only the Horse, and the Ox, and all the now tame creatures, but the fiercest Lions, Tygers, Bears, Unicorns, were all in subjection to man, according to that soveraign power given man by God, in the day that God made him (Gen. 1.27, 28.) So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and said to them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. The original grand Charter of mans Soveraignty, was extended over the Unicorn and the Lion, &c. And therefore when creatures are not willing to serve man, especially when they rise up against man, let man remember his sin in not obeying the Soveraign command of God. Had not man been unwilling to submit to and serve God,