Metaphor. | Parallel.
Swine love to be in the Mud, they will wallow in Filth and miry Places, which Sheep, and divers other Creatures strive as much as they can to avoid. This Beast (saith Gesner) is a most impure and unclean Beast, and its Nature ⟨p. 217⟩is to delight to wallow in most filthy and noisome Places. | SO wicked Men love their brutish Lusts, and daily wallow in the Mud and Mire of Filth, and the abominable Pollutions of Sin and Uncleanness, until they become defiled all over, from the Head to the Foot. Such Men and Women, who live in Uncleanness, Drunkenness, and other beastly Sins, may fitly be ⟨p. 217⟩compared to Swine; for 'tis as pleasant to them to riot in the Day-time, and tumble as it were in the Mud of Wickedness, as it is to a Swine to wallow in the Mire.
⟨p. 216⟩II. The Hog or Swine is a dull, stupid, and senseless Creature, not like the Hart, and divers Animals that might be named. | II. So are wicked Men; they are, like this dull and sottish Brute, slow of Heart, and hard to believe; they are Men of no spiritual Understanding.
III. Swine are craving and very greedy Creatures: They are so greedy,1 saith my Author, that they have no measure in eating; and hence grow so fat, that sometimes they are hardly able to go; nay, they will eat until they burst themselves. | III. Some wicked Men are just like Swine in this respect: they are so greedy and covetous, that they are never satisfied. When they have got their Hundreds, nay, it may be their Thousands by the Year, yet still they pursue the World, as if they had their Bread to get, and were not worth a Groat, and thus growing fat, Jeshurun like, they forget God. But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked. 2Some there be also, who are such Epicures, that they are naturally like the Swine, who are not only gluttonous, but will drink until they are quite drunk; and hence we commonly call a sottish Drunkard, a drunken Swine.
IV. Swine, as they are greedy and unsatisfied Creatures, so they are commonly fed for the Slaughter. | IV. So the Wicked, who flourish in this Life, and feed in their filthy Sties of sensual Lusts, are let alone in their Sins, being fatted for the Day of Slaughter.3
V. Swine are a mischievous Sort of Creatures:
Metaphor. | Parallel.
SWine love to be in the Mud, they will wallow in Filth and miry Places, which Sheep, and divers other Creatures strive as much as they can to avoid. This Beast (saith Gesner) is a most impure and unclean Beast, and its Nature ⟨p. 217⟩is to delight to wallow in most filthy and noisom Places. | SO wicked Men love their brutish Lusts, and daily wallow in the Mud and Mire of Filth, and the abominable Pollutions of Sin and Uncleanness, until they become defiled all over, from the Head to the Foot. Such Men and Women, who live in Uncleanness, Drunkenness, and other beastly Sins, may fitly be ⟨p. 217⟩compared to Swine; for 'tis as pleasant to them to riot in the Day-time, and tumble as it were in the Mud of Wickedness, as it is to a Swine to wallow in the Mire.
⟨p. 216⟩II. The Hog or Swine is a dull, stupid, and sensless Creature, not like the Hart, and divers Animals that might be named. | II. So are wicked Men; they are, like this dull and sottish Brute, slow of Heart, and hard to believe; they are Men of no spiritual Understanding.
III. Swine are craving and very greedy Creatures: They are so greedy,1 saith my Author, that they have no measure in eating; and hence grow so fat, that sometimes they are hardly able to go; nay, they will eat untill they burst themselves. | III. Some wicked Men are just like Swine in this respect: they are so greedy and covetous, that they are never satisfied. When they have got their Hundreds, nay, it may be their Thousands by the Year, yet still they pursue the World, as if they had their Bread to get, and were not worth a Groat, and thus growing fat, Jeshurun like, they forget God. But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked. 2Some there be also, who are such Epicures, that they are naturally like the Swine, who are not only gluttonous, but will drink until they are quite drunk; and hence we commonly call a sottish Drunkard, a drunken Swine.
IV. Swine, as they are greedy and unsatisfied Creatures, so they are commonly fed for the Slaughter. | IV. So the Wicked, who flourish in this Life, and feed in their filthy Sties of sensual Lusts, are let alone in their Sins, being fatted for the Day of Slaughter.3
V. Swine are a mischievous Sort of Creatures:
- 1Dr. Frantzius.
- 2Deut. 32.15.
- 3Jer. 12.3.
