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A56300	A theatre of politicall flying-insects wherein especially the nature, the vvorth, the vvork, 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 ...	Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626.	1657 (1657)	Wing P4224; ESTC R6282	278,822	394

in the rock they flie to their burroughs and the Bees to their hives Man is a weake creature in himselfe weake in judgement weake in affection but the consciousnesse of our weaknesse should make us seeke for strength out of our selves goe to God in Christ and then he is a kinde of almightie man I can doe all things saith the Apostle in Christ that strengthens me A Christian is omnipotent if he depend upon the promise and commit his wayes to God but he is impotent and weake in himselfe it is God therefore that must establish us VI. Gnats in numerous multitudes like clouds doe nothing but play up and downe in the warme Sunne and sing and when they have done sit downe and sting the next hand or face they can seize upon see here a perfect Embleme of idlenesse and detraction how many doe thus miserably spend their good houres who after they have wasted the succeeding dayes in vaine and meerely unprofitable passe time sit downe and backbite their neighbours The Bee sings too sometimes but she workes also and her worke is not more admirable then usefull but those foolish flies doe nothing but play and sing to no purpose Even the busiest and most active spirits must recreate but to make a trade of sport is for none but lasie wantons The Bee stings too but when she is provoked these draw blood unoffended and sting for their owne pleasure I would be glad of some recreation but to enable and sweeten my work I would not but sting sometimes where is just cause of offence but God blesse me from those men which will ever be doing nothing or ill VII The Commandresse of the Bees is a Queene a royall creature and therefore she workes not it is beneath her dignitie to drudge and toile as the meaner subject she flies seldome abroad communicates little with the world state procures respect and honour to eminent persons Though she hath a sting yet rather as an Ensigne of power then an instrument of revenge for she never useth it It is the property of a base and dunghilly spirit to be vindicative If I be a Christian I am a King shall I debase my selfe in sinfull practiles shall I cast my crowne in the di●t God hath raised me and made me an heire of heaven shall I abase my selfe to sin and to base lusts the Devills drudgery so that I cannot role my owne members and yet professe my selfe to be a King When we are tempted to sinne and to base courses let us say as good Nehemiah when he was moved to flie What shall such a man as I flie so should we say to any temptation to base courses of life what shall such a man as I doe this For a Christian that is a King that hath a guard of Angells about him that is the most excellent creature in the world for him to abase himselfe to the world He that is bred from heaven for him to have no higher thoughts then the things below to have an earthly minde or revengefull thoughts is a shrewd presumption that he is only a titular Christian and hath not received the inward and spirituall anoynting VIII All is one to God to make an Angel or a Bee to create the brightest Cherub or t●●● most contemptible flie for in every creation no lesse then an omnipotency must be the efficient and no more then nothing is ever the object IX If the Queene Bee be slaine or any wayes miscarry the whole hive is overthrowne but if she safe though they have weaknings meete with injuries suffer from enemies yet they will recover themselves and out grow other dangers A mans darling sin is Satans strongest hold whither when by the power of the word he is dislodged out of other parts of the soule he retires as to his most impregnable Castle but if in this he be over powred by the blessing of God on the word of his Gospell then is his dominion shaken and the man driven to a deepe detestation of himselfe throwne downe to the lowest step of a penitent dejection he is inegered with thirsty greedinesse for pardon and grace and at length forced out of his naturall estate X. Bees in their private quarrells are patient and regardlesse they neglect an● slight personall injuries but if their hives be assaulted their Common wealth beleagered or endangered with Waspes robbing Bees or other enemies they lustily bestirre themselves fight it out to the death whereas the Drones as they watch against no danger so they resist none but love to sleepe in a whole skinne letting all goe at six and seven as they say like lazie passengers in a dangerous leake will not lay hands to the Pumpe and yet must miscarry with the ships destruction And are not most men in the world Drones not Bees affected perhaps with their owne troubles or reproaches but silent and sloathfull in Gods cause and truth then they are loath to stirre fearing hatred trouble obloquie among men If their owne reputation be called in question it will not a little startle them but if Gods name be blasphemed his word traduced his ordinances violated the course of the Gospell be stopped in the freedome and libertie whereof is the Churches happinesse and glory and the sailing of it the destruction of a people Yet they are little affected it goeth not to their hearts they keepe silence as if this of all other things did least concerne them When Iehu approached neare unto Iezabel and espied her in her window after the fashion of harlots he cryes out to them with her Who is on my side who and the Eunuches threw her downe The Lord seemes sometimes thus to say to us in the extremities of the Churches affliction and he seemes to cry to us who is on my side If then thou be silent that which our Saviour hath will be here applied who is not for him is sure against him and so shall be accepted in the day of accounts XI Waspes and Hornets are very noysome creatures and therefore we seek their destruction Nay burne up nests and young and that before they have injuried us or ours only because we know what they would doe if they be suffered to live and flie abroad And shall poore Mortals thinke it much if God who knowes our thoughts a farre off and the principle within us and what men would doe if occasion be offered which for the present they know not of themselves as Hazaels answer to Elisha imports Thinkest thou c. No wonder if the Lord ●ut off many in their youth and infancy because he knowes their nature that they would doe this and this Such passages of his providence there may be as to cut off children and young men out of the foresight of the evill that they would doe to his Church because he knowes their thought a farre off XII The Drones are alwayes idle observe them as often as you will and you shall

defence of the publique although they die in the conflict But how farre short are many Christians in their practises in any publique cause where the glory of God is concerned or the common good interested you shall have them beare all quietly Oh saith he you must have patience and beare with small matters but in a cause that toucheth his owne particular say himselfe be concerned in his penny in his peace in his reputation or the like then none are so fiery none so furious he is all upon a flame then no penaltie is thought too great no disgrace too heavie for such a person that hath done him displeasure Whereas a meeke Christian in his owne cause will be meeke and silent but in Gods cause zealous and earnest See it in Moses when he was censured disparaged reviled he beares it quietly pockets it up without distemper but at another time when the cause was publique when it concerned the glory of God and the good of the Church then none so zealous none so fiery as Moses he cannot brooke nor beare XXXIII Bees in Iuly extract honey out of many and various flowers but yet by little and little and in a small proportion but if a honey-dew then falls in a short space are they largely replenished and have a triplication of their sweetes and a full refection with their Nectar Holy prayers meditations and intercourses with God private readings soule-soliloquies and spirituall discourses are intertainers and satisfiers of the Saints recessities but in publique solemnities God opens his treasures powers out his graces more abundantly private devotions and secret offices of religion are like refreshings of a garden with the distilling and pettie drops of a watering pot but addresses to the Temple and serving God in the publique communion of Saints is like raine from heaven where the offices are described by a publique spirit hightened by the greater portion of assistance and receives advantages by the adunations and symbols of charity and increment by their distinct title to promises appropriate even to their assembling and mutuall support by the piety of example by the communication of counsels by the awfulnesse of publique observation and the engagements of holy customes XXXIV Drones to the eye are goodly creatures fairer and larger then the working Bees they make a great noise and lowd buzzing flie often forth in the heate of the day as if they were busie to advance the publique good but they are all emptie and vain glorious shewes for they contribute nothing to the publique store but when after a few wanton vagaries they have emptied themselves and whetted their stomacks they returne into the hive and liberally feede of the Bees labours So one writes of young Marius that by reason of the stoutnesse of his talke and gesture he obtained to be called the sonne of Mars but when he came to proofe he gained a new name and was called the sonne of Venus Thus many in their words appeare gracious but by their actions are basely effeminate and sickle wanton and idle XXXV Some hives will lie out two or three yeares together and not swarme or if they doe very late and then ten to one but they miscarrie and die both the old stock and the swarme too Now the best way to preserve such a stock is timely to drive it into an emptie hive and the Bees being many will provide themselves sufficiently against winter and swarme seasonably another yeare so that in some cases driveing is not an undoing and destruction but a preservation of the stock Thus the gardiner cuts off a graft or siens to plant it into a new stock not to burne it So the Lord sometimes cuts off a sinner from his abhominations but he will not cast him into hell and the Lord melts the heart of a poore sinner but consumes him not but as the Goldsmith melts his gold not to consume it all away but to make it a better vessell so the Lord melts a poore sinner to make him a vessell of glory The Lord will fire this proud heart of yours and clip off those knotty lusts but if you belong to him he will leave a little remainder of hope that you shall be formed and fashioned anew not consumed XXXVI The Queene Bee is a very amiable creature and of a brighter colour and more transparent hue then other Bees she is somewhat yellow under the belly and on her legges enclining to a golden colour and this colour intimates her princely nature her royall blood and soveraigne dignitie Some Heralds tell us that none ought to beare gold-yellow colour in armes but Emperours and Kings and such as be of the blood royall Oh that none would beare the glittering shew of profession and holinesse but those that are of the race of Jesus Christ the King of Kings then should we not be as the Priests Prince and people of Israel a snare in Mispah to the simple and a net spread on mount Tabor to catch them that know us not with an opinion of good men and good women faithfull Christians and true beleevers when we are nothing lesse XXXVII The Bees worke is admirable orderly and geometrically proportionable all full of wonder whereas the Waspes and Hornets combes for substance are unprofitable drosse although they be hexangle cels and somewhat orderly framed downwards yet upwards have no beautie are nothing so polite and accurate But the Humble Bees combes are but rude lumpes a little hollowed for their owne end and use To these three sorts may we compare the obedience of most men professing Religion there is the obedience of the common Protestant perhaps somewhat more then a Pagane performes yet a rude and indigested devotion heaped up together by law and custome Then there is the obedience of the hypocrite in many things resembling true devotion super-fine carriages but yet on one side only to man-ward somewhat exact and formall but to God-ward rudely carelesse and negligent Whatsoever is done is not done with respect to God and conscience of his commandments Lastly there is the obedience of the true beleever arising from a grounded knowledge of the will of God and faith and from a holy feare and love of God conscientiously and respectively to approve himselfe to God in the discharge of his duties and it is exactly modelized and squared according to the rule of Gods word XXXVIII It is an observation that a man cannot draw even in naturall things a long straight line perfectly exact except he draw it by some rule It is not the steddiest hand that can doe it exactly but there will be some crookes And therefore men use to take a rule to draw a line by Certainly it must be so in spirituall obedience a man must have an eye to the word of God and make that his card and compasse to saile by make that the rule and warrant of his actions or else though he hit as it were hab nab at