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and Morally upon the nature of Bee?.

to their keepers. Sic vos non vobis. Still supulying their owners.* eccslicie out of their fruitful! and useful! store. And shall aman of more singular graces and faculties be idle, a burden tothe world and himselfe. Ifhappinesse consisted indoeing no-thing God that meant Adam so happie, would never have sethim about business?, but as Paradise was his store-houfe, so also ^his work-house, his pleasure was his taske , there is no state of neeman chat can priviledge a folded hand, our life is vita pulverisnon pulvinaris , Hands } meanes, and moneys, men make the pro-tection of idlenesle, when as Adam commanded the wholeearth, yet works expected him.

LXX.

Robbing Bees of diverse hives will joyne hands, and leaguetogether without jarring or discord , though at another timetheir hostility is continual!, their fewd implacable, their diffe-rence is irreconcileable. Nay Waspes also, though there be anatural! antipathie hetweene them, yet to doe a mischiefs to aneighbour hive, will comply and unite together with them.

There is a combination of the ungodly, even so farre as to thevery participation of their estates; Cast in thy lot with us , we p s0 v. r. 14.will all have one purse, they are entangled in mutuall amide,like beds of Eeles, nothing but thunder can breaks their knotts.

Is it much , faith Christ, that you love them that love you ? Rob*bing Bees and Waspes doe it, even Publicans doe the fame.

LXXI.

Bees are often suffocated and drowned io their owns honey,that which with industrie and labour they had gathered (thecombes being melted with the heats of the Sunne or casuallybroken) nd the finnesof many,which they had wearied them-selves to act, often prove their ruins and destruction. Sodomemight have stood for all the five Kings that bad her battell, ifthe unnaturall fire of lust had not drawne downe uponjier un- Sa i v j an ynaturall fire, I means the fire of hell ( as Salvian speaketh ) Guber.from heaven it was not. It was not Titiu siege without, but tib.i.the Zelots sedition within the walls that dispeopled Jerusalem, Jftphus de

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