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

Young Eagles are used to blood in the nest, and therefore delight in blood all their days afterwards (Prov. 22.6.) Train up a Child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. If a Child be trained up in a good way, he will not depart from it when he is old; 'tis usually so, or probably it will be so. Though the golden youth-age, of some hath ended in a leaden old age, yet it is most probable, if a Child be bred up in ⟨p. 488⟩a good way,¹ he will hold it, and if in an ill way, he will hardly leave or be beaten out of it: Usually, such as the institution and instruction of youth is, such will their after-conversation be. Her young ones also suck up blood, ²and, as it follows, Where the slain are, there is she.

1. 1Progenies, stimulant fame festinat ad illam.Progenies, •stimulante fame festinat ad illam.
2. 2Quam primum rupte praedam gustaverit o•o. Juven. Satyr. 14.

This shows us yet more fully, what the Eagle lives upon. Where carcasses be, resort they, saith Mr. Broughton. Some interpret the Text,¹ not of bodies slain, but of bodies to be slain; where battles are to be fought, thither the Eagle resorts. Natural Historians tell us, Eagles will presage or smell a battle, some say, seven days before 'tis sought, others three, at least two; so that not only where the carcasses are, but are like to be, thither the Eagles gather. Yet some contend very much, that there is a sort or race of Eagles so noble, that they will not feed upon a dead carcass, but live upon herbs; but that most Eagles feed upon bodies slain, none deny. This Scripture of Job is alluded to by Christ himself (