2^4 Jl/eciitatiins and observations 1 hco'ogicall

hold in it, be will brcake through the impediment, because hisnatural! disposition, the streame of his heart runs another way.

XVI.

Bees will not be without a Leader, for in a I they act theyreceive directions from the Queene Bee. As the governour ofa lhip, he hath his hand ( sometimes) to the sterrage, and hisD'. Sibbi‘ eye to the Pole starre to be directed by that ; so is the life of aChristian, he must al way es be doing that, that God prescribeshim, and he must have his eye to the starre to be guided in hiscourse by Gods direction : he that doth not this knowes notwhat it is to trust in God.

XVII.

As the Beare dares harely intermeddle with his desired ho-ney, for fearc of the stinging of the Bees; so some men dare not■commit sinne, for feare either of the lawes osirren, or in slavishfeareof hell,or the prologue to it, terror of conscience, yethugges it in his heart, embraceth it in the armes of his affection,suffers it co reigne in his heart, and to take up his thoughts as byaCommistion, continually contemplating thereon.

XVIII.

The Drones labour not, bi t altogether intend their passe-timeand recreation, and then returne into the hive, and sillthemselves with the purest honey, whereby they quickly growfoggie,and either cannot when they goe forth returne into thehive, and so perish abroad, or after a while are ejected or slaineMr. B-j’ron, by the Bees. And such sporting Drones the world is full of,D.rcct. for w ho phmge themselves overhead and cares in courses of plea-,Hulking with j- ure w herein they unworthily wast the fat and marrow of deareand precious time, the flower of their age, the strength of theirbodies, emasculate and melt die vigor of their spirits into effe-minate sensualitieand lust, drowne the saire and goodly hopes,of their education, the improVement of their pasts in froth andfolly, as though they : w cr^pl^dvpsl^^arth , as Leviathan; uv

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