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from those passages of the Scriptures where the words seemescarnal) diseernes spiritual! excellencies. For as an unskilful) mancomming into a field abounding with wholfomeherbes, passechby alfas of no more use then grass;, but a skilful! Botanist dothotherwise. So doth a spirituall reader find Ipiricuall advantagefrom every sentence ; to the pure all things are profitable andpure, and if any place seemes uncomely, it is only to those thatarc such in themselves.

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Mice are very hurt full enemies to Bees, but not at all timesalike. In Summer when the hives are full, and the Bees lustyand keepe a constant guard and watch, they feldome meddlewith them but in the winter when they are ( benummed withcold ) shut into the hives, and almost bereaved of their lives*then doe they without feareor hazzard rob and plundder them.And Satan our constant adversary takes advantage of proses*sors: when they keepe a continual! watch and course in prayer,they doc not so oft miscarrie, but in the night of their igno-rance, in the sleepe of their peace and securitie, when they canleast efpie him,doth he cake advantage and by his wily,unseensstratagems overthrow many.

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The feeds of discord were scattered in every furrow of thecreation, and came up in a numberless: variety of antipathies.Bees are a continual I prey to the Titmouse, often a morsell tothe Spider r their habitations are digged through and plunde-red by Mice and many other enemies have they, whereby theydaily suffer: yetioconrcst and hostility is so destructive anddangerous,as that which exercised with Bees, creatures of theirowne kir.de. What is this but an image of that wofull hostili-ty which is exercised between us reasonable creatures, tvho arecor.joyncdin one common humanirie, if not religion.. We fightwith anddeflroy each other more then those creatures thatwant reason to temper their passions. No beast is so cruell to

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