the feare of you] (Genesis 35:5.) The dominion of man since sinne is not like that of Adam over the creatures at th first, (for their obedience to him was in proportion such as his to his God, free and unforced, and rather out of love then out of feare) but by prevailing of force and art, as now it is, yet neither can he subdue the nature of the wilder sort, for as it is in the thirty ninth of Job, Will the Ʋnicorne be willing to serve thee, or abie by thy crib? vers. 9. Canst thou bind the Ʋnicorne with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys for thee? vers. 10. which words though they be an interrogation in forme, are in effect a vehement negation: But Noah and his sonnes (with whom the unreasonable creatures were In-mates in the Arke, and by whom they were governed and succoured as a part of their family) might have more power over them, and more obedience from them then his posteritie in aftertimes; for it is like they were more at command whilest they were afraid of the flood, and confined in the Arke then afterward; and yet man (especially the elect, as in Christ) hath a generall dominion over the unreasonable creatures, compare Psalms 8:6. with 1 Corinthians 15:27. even to the taming or over-awing of the wildest of what sort soever, James 3. 7. as of Lions, Leopards, Tygers, and Elephants, as we may see in Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. 8. cap. 16, 17, 18. whereof the Elephant is the greatest, Ibid. lib. 8. cap. 1. which have beene brought so farre under the yoke as to be yoked together to draw a Chariot, Ibid. cap. 2. and in some places to draw the Plough, Ibid. cap. 1. 2. and to the taking of the subtillest; and for those that are not tamed nor taken, the dread of man is upon them, so that they shun his presence as much as they can, Psal. 104. vers. 20. 21, 22, 23. And this is true as well of the birds of the aire (as experience proveth) whereof see Plin. lib. 9. cap. 8.) as of the beasts of the earth; yea and of the fishes of the water, for in the fish-pooles of Caesar some fishes were so tamed that they would come at the calling of their name, Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. 10. cap. 70. and the greatest of them the Whales God hath subjected to the power and prudence of man in great measure, though sometimes for his rebellion against his God they be in rebellion against him to his ruine; as God threatneth, Leviticus 26:22. and hath sometimes executed, as 1 Kings 13:24. 2 Kings 2:24. and he can take as great revenge by the least and weakest creatures, as by frogs, and flies, and lice, Exodus 8:5. 17. 24. and by wormes, Acts 12:23.