[ 392] All the Creatures are at peace with good Men.
EUsebius in his Ecclesiastical story recordeth, that the persecutors took those Primitive Christians,* 1.1 and set them naked before the Lions to be devoured, yet t••e Lions durst not touc•• them; they stood foaming and roaring before them, but hurt them not,* 1.2 and thereupon they were forced to put the skin of wild beasts upon them, and so tear them in pieces; Thus thou that art a wicked man, and hast no part of the Image of God to defend thee, no marvel if thy dog bite thee, thy horse brain thee, thy Oxe gore thee, &c. but as for thee that art the child of God, and hast the Image of thy Creator stamped on thy soul,* 1.3 thou needst not fear the Creatures, though thy walk lie by the vale and shadow of death they can offer no violence or harm unto thee (unless it be upon particular dispensation for thy good and spiritual comfort) because they are reconciled unto thee by God's own promise.