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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44560	The spiritual bee, or, A miscellany of scriptural, historical, natural observations and occasional occurencyes applyed in divine meditations by an university pen	University pen.; Horsman, Nicholas, fl. 1689.; Howard, Luke, 1621-1699.; Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1662 (1662)	Wing H2872; ESTC R30341	60,423	277

not been quickned by exercise and opposition and hence it is that Feavours are generally more pernicious here in England then other where in places about us because that disease is lesse familiar to our natures then to those in our neighbour country's Temptations usually are most dangerous where least frequent and their assaults most effectual on those who have seldomest experimented them they are then most to be feared when their power is increased by a strength gathered from long discontinuance and the edge of our resistance rebated by a long restivenesse when our shield is laid by and may have contracted rust then those fiery darts are with most difficulty repell'd when our Bow is unbent and our hand in our bosome no wonder if our disadvantage be great in the enemy's onset Hence Satan hath this Stratagem amongst others not to be frequent in his assaults there where former Alarmes have excited to care and vigilancy and set continual watch and ward but to attempt entrance rather where a long quiet hath bred security and lessened the power of Defence where he bestow's his visits seldomest he is least fear'd and consequently least provided against Let me not think my self secure from those temptations with which I have been little exercised lest I find my self most overpowred there where I least suspected Assault and adde to those Advantages of which Satan hath otherwise too many over me that of mine own Security VI. I read of an African beast called the Dabuh which they take with Musick for being charm'd with the sweet sounding of it in his eares he suffer's his feet the while to be fetter'd and so his death is the Minstrels pay And the folly of the Larke is pitti'd by us which while it playeth with the Feather and stoupeth to the Glasse is caught in the Fowler 's net Ther 's a spiritual charmer which by the pleasing delights and allurements of the world cast's us into security and then we are with ease enchain'd in his shackels a Syren that sing's us to death This is that which hath by sweet and soft conquest enervated the Sampsons overcome the David's subdued the Solomon's that in whose triumphs have been led the most resolved and generous spirits the stoutest and ablest Champions Do thou with the wise Graecian stop thine ear to the Musick of Pleasure for it is Magick trust not her flattery 's O my soul for her kisses are but to betray thee there are snares in her smiles when she fawn's on thee windeth about thee cast off the Viper in the end she will bite as a Serpent to relish her sweetnesse is Mortall for she is the high-way to Death if thou affect her thy face is set towards Hell and thou art in the road thither Lord if I am at any time allur'd into Satans nets and his bolts are cast over me do thou knock off my chains and loose my bands as thou didst to Paul and Silas break the gins and deliver me that my soul may escape as a bird out of the snare of the Fowler VII Alexander the Great was wont to say of Homer's Heroick Poem that it ought to be sung only to a warlike nation at the noise of a Trumpet not when it sounds a Retreat but when it call's to the Battel For it is not for mean spirits to resent motions of Generosity at the recounting of affairs which have no lesse Difficulty in the Conduct then Beauty in the Discription What he said of that admired Poem may with more aptness be apply'd to the Gospel of Christ Tuba est Christi Evangelium it proclam's a warre sounds an Alarme and call's us to the Campe to make every place a Pitcht-field every day a day of Battel against those many and incessant assaults both from intestine and forraigne force And who but those that are inspired with a heavenly courage can bear the Thunder of that sound that calleth them to love them that hated them to doe good to them that Persecute them to take up a heavy crosse and follow Christ naked to glory in reproach to hate Father and Mother and which com's to the quick their life also to be Christs Disciples How many refuse to take up the weapons and enter the Lists and cry these are hard saings who can bear them And those who engage in the encounter when they find the greatest enemy they are to Combat with is Self many throw down their armes and fall to caresse and embrace that which they should Duell with VIII The Deepest Waters move most silently undiscernably and the Spheres have the swiftest motiō yet move without noise The Starres though vast and glorious bodyes yet distance makes them seem very small and many Stars as in the Galaxie shine unseen The Moone when that side towards the Earth is darkned towards heaven shines bright If in some mens conversation I seem to discern little or nosplendour let me not be too rashly forward in my censures of their estate it may be I doe not approach near enough to them perchance our heavenly Father may see that in secret which doth not discover it self openly he may have a bright-side heaven-ward though toward Earth he seem wholy Eclips'd Perchance he hath so much more of the Publican in him then of the Pharisee as to think it a good work to conceal his good workes and therefore is so farre from making his prayers in the open streets to be seen of men that he thinks his Closet scarce private enough when the dore is shut and so farre from proclaiming his Alms-giving by sound of Trumpet that he will not let his left hand know what his right doth when it dispenseth them The Flax may have fire in it though it be but smoaking and doe not break out into a flame As most men doe seem better then they are in truth so some are better then they seem to be I had rather be good and not seem so then seem good and not be so For the Publican went home rather justified then the Pharisee IX THe unjust Steward in the Gospel having wasted his Master's goods and by high dieting his own Lusts brought a plentifull estate to a Consumption and being thereupon accused and discharg'd his Stewardship casteth about with himself what to doe and findeth he was reduced to a great extremity not knowing how to digge and to beg he was asham'd get a sustenance out of the sweat of his brow he could not and turn beggar to crave it he would not Lord when I enter into a serious review with my self and cast up my accounts I find the endowments gifts and advantages the goods thou hast entrusted me with to have been very carelesly Stewarded by me and I have forfeited the benefits both of them and of thy service Digge I cannot I know not how to earn a reward of glory by my own righteousnes but I am not ashamed to begge my spirit is not soe

hs did Sampson but they arise and goe out doe as at other times while their backs smart under the Rod and they sit on the margent of the grave their spirits stoope their passions are broken and the heat of them asswaged their thoughts are humbled to a Sobriety then to be liberall of Promises is an easy Bounty but when the storm is over and they return to their former freedome and delight in sensible Converses then they are hidebovnd and restrain'd in performances rescind former engagements the sighes of their sick-bed which they turned into penitent groans are now vanished into air and forgotten the sad reflections on their former vanity's the serious Recollections of their way 's which they were reduced to when the flesh sat uneasily upon them and dwelt in sorrow are now as little thought on as the dolorous accents of their grief When they are come newly out of the Furnace of affliction while the smell of fire is yet on them they are scrupulous and tender but it is but as those who come out of a hot stove that shrink from a cold aire at first but by degrees are soon brought to their former hardiness of temper if the soul be not chāged though there may for a while some religious colour appear in the man's face he will at last return to his former habit It was therefore wise advice which Theodoricus Bishop of Coleine gave to Sigismund the Emperour who demanding how he might be directed the way to heaven he answered If thou live so as thou promisedst in a painfull fit of the Gout or Stone The Israelites when they had been humbled with the voice out of the fire the uproar in all the Elements the thunder darkness and terrour of Mount Horeb were very prodigal of their promises All these things will we doe but God foresaw though they spake as they intended in that distresse that they would after be no lesse niggardly in their performances O that there were such a heart in them and what people ever more rebellious then they Never was a heart harder then Pharoah's and yet upon the repetition of every Plague how Couchant is the Lyon how doth he fawn and crouch to the Power which his stubbornness incensed at every stroak how he cryes out Spare me this once and I will offend no more And at length when Death had made all Aegypt at once to ring with Passing-Bells his Palaces were even invaded by that king of terrours he suddenly gives the Israelites a dismission and as it were thrust's them forth as if he could not be soon enough ridde of them Rise up get you forth from among us And yet no sooner were they gone but the stream of his Passion hath a reflux being only diverted by that Judgment and he makes after them with the whole Posse of his Country to fetch them back again Lord let never my holy resolutions go away with my Afflictions nor my Health dispense with the Vowes of my Sicknesse Let me not when I have in my distresse found Sanctuary in thy mercy as a Votary in my enlarged condition indulge my self the loosnesse of a Libertine Let me quit my credit and faithfully pay my vowes and discharge the Bonds I have entred into with thee in my necessitous and low state Let Immunity from evil never render me such a stranger to what I were in distresse that I should recoyle from my promises and disown them FINIS The Spirituall Bee Or A MISCELLANY c. The Second Part. I. IT is now no new advertisement that the Spirit of God himself doth in Scripture make use of heathenish speeches and observations and apply them to a Spirituall use Thus St. Paul took notice of a Paganish Inscription of an Altar 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and begun his Sermon to the Athenians on that text and in the same place v. 28. he quotes one of their Poets Aratus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As also Menander 1 Cor. 15. 33. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And Callimachus or Epimenides Tit. 1 12. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. And James 1. 17. we have a perfect Hexameter verse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. and a double Jambick 2 Pet. 2. 27. Surely the warranty of such an Example will give good ground for our making use of the borrowed helpes of humane Writers in Sacred things so we deal with them as God commandeth the Israelites to deal with the Canaanitish captives if they would wed them to shave their head and pare off their nailes c. if we devest them of their paganish superfluities For surely it would reflect injuriously upon the wisdome of God to think that he hath given the Gold and treasures of Arts Learning the spoiles of the Aegyptians to be converted and made use of only for the making of a golden Calfe such are all other subjects compared with divine rather then to be applied to the use of the Sanctuary and the Service of God as Exod 35. to the building and adorning of the Tabernacle so be that they be made to passe through the fire as the Midianitish gold and silver Num. 31. 22 and be throughly refined and purg'd from their heathenish drosse He that furnished Cyrus with treasure and riches of secret places for the building of his Temple Ezra 1. 2. doubtlesse had an eye to the framing and edifying of his Church in that light of knowledg and literature with which he hath imbelished such writers Hagar must not bear children to her self and her Mistresse Sarah obteine none by her and as long as this Handmaid hath her eyes towards her Mistresse in due subserviency and is observant of her direction while she seeks not to rule in the house why should she be cast out Elias did not nauseate or reject the food that was brought to him by a Raven an uncleane creature under the Law II. The Mahometans are wont at their entrance into their Mosquits or Churches to put off their shoos and leave them behind them and so when they bein their devotions they stop their ears fix their eyes that their thoughts be not diverted When we enter into the house of God we ought to take heed unto our goings the shoos we are to put off as Moses when he entred upon holy ground are worldly and carnall affections we must devest our-selves of all earthly encombrances not bring that into God's presence which may profane his Sanctuary but wash our hands in Innocency before we compasse his Altar much lesse may we carry into his house any resolutions of sin or allowed and cherished inclinations to it for this were to enter not only with shoes on but with feet filthy bemired which cannot but pollute the ground we tread on and cause God not only to be angry at but loath and abominate us And when we are engaged in duties of worship a strict guard must be kept on our Senses that they be not inlets to