Here, 1. Wicked men are compared to the horse and the ass , so brutish are they, so unreasonable, so unruly, and not to be governed but by force or fear, so low has sin sunk men, so much below themselves. Man indeed is born like the wild ass’s colt , but as some by the grace of God are changed, and become rational, so others by custom in sin are hardened, and become more and more sottish, as the h...