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A theatre of politicall flying-insects : wherein especially the nature, the worth, the work, the wonder, and the manner of right-ordering of the bee, is discovered and described : together with discourses, historical, and observations physical concerning them : and in a second part are annexed meditations, and observations theological and moral, in three centuries upon that subject / by Samuel Purchas
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2z8 Meditations and Observations Theologica.ll

rituall meditation, when every creature every where yeelds asmatter enough. All of us can use the creatures carnally, and socan beasts the spirituall use is rare.

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God humbles us with ignorance in many things, not oftsydivine but naturall and in common use, as in the Loadstonesdrawing of iron. In that little fish the Æfwovvijthe stay-(hip thatwill arrest a (hip when it is going full saile In the nature ofBees how blind are we ? notwithstanding all our observationand labour. In the production and continuance of the QueeneBee,in the generation of other Bees,and generally in the formesof all things. A just punishment of our pride, in affecting andaspiring to knowledge too high for us. And if there be in na-ture such secrets , what then in grace? Let us not be too curi-ous in prying into Gods arke,least we smart like the flie flutter-ing about the candle, for God is a consuming fire to those thatwill be sporting themselves in the quirks of their wit about his(acred mysteries. Let us waite till the life to come, and theveile (hall be taken from our eyes, in the meane time humbleignorance is better then proud curiofitie.

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Many have troubled themselves and others to discover theseverall kinds of working Bees, whereas of working Bees inthese parts of the world, there is but one fort. And all Bees a-gree, if not in a just magnitude, colour, and proportion,yet cer-tainly, in their operations, naturall dispositions and inclinati-ons ; So that our Bees and Bees in Spaine and other parts makeall their combes with like hexangle eels, and are all industriousto gather honey, although in some parts according to the Cli-mate they are more retarded from working then in others.

And all the Saints'that are dispersed throughout the wholeworld, ha^.the fame igture in them (although there be exter-nal! differences J tht^nave-dW fame spirit in them,though theybe never so remote one from another,St never saw one anothersLee, yet may they know or,e anothers mindes/for one mind

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