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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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and Morally upon the nature of Bees. 34 1

they follow their worke, buc being dead, they leave and loaththeir honey-combes. Behold how nature hath stamped obedi-ence by instinct to Bees to be subject to a superior in their kind;how much more should nature, reason, and grace, stamp obe-dience in the hearts of Christians, knowing that without a go-vernment, Kingdomcs and States are thraidomes, Remeta ju - Jugult. dt dJiitia ejuidsunt regna nifi magna, latrecinia , take away justice, vHat.dt't.hbqand what arekingdomesbut dens oftheeves, takeaway obedi- * 'ence to government, and that were miscere ttrru tartara ,makeearth and hell all one, but only in name.

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Bees will not be forced to communion with others, exceptthey voluntarily forsake their owne hives in a fwarme ; for takethem at other times,as when they lie out and sweepe them intoanother hive, yet they will ( at furthest ) the day following allreturne back to their owne and proper hive: it is with them aswith a streame that hath made it seise a channel I wherein torun,it may indeed by a strong hand be turned out ofit’s course,buc yet it will be still bending towards it’s owne way,and neverleave working and winding till it be where it was before: so Mrhowsoever the upright person may be unsetled for a time and 1put besides his course, yet he strives and labours to be wherehe should be, and never finds himselfe well, till he be in his firstpath: like the Needle in the Com passe, though it be jog’d asidefor a season, yet it makes toward the North againe, and is ina perpetuall trepidation, till it be where it should : So the chil-dren of God, though they be subject to manifold declensions,manifold desertions,manifold stops and stayes in their coursetoheaven, yet still set their faces thitherward, though the windmay sometimes violently carry them besides the way, yet itdoth not dismay them; nor doe they find any rest or contentin their souses, till they be in their right course againe.

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Btesof all politick creatures most unanimously comply andcombine together, live and love together,-raurutlly protect

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