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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

See how stupidly and senselesly the Epicurean Carnalist runneth himself upon the pikes without fear or feeling Job 15. 26. He runneth upon God even on his neck upon the thick bosses of his buckler but whence such a grosse stupid insensiblenesse v. 27. because he covereth his face with his fatnesse and maketh collops of fat on his flanks He hath so gorged himself and is so plunged in sensual delights that all sense is drowned and lost in him God no where threatneth a more benummed and Lethargick frame of Spirit then where he say's Make the heart of this people Fat XXXIII IT hath alwaies been the fate of Neutrality to please neither party and those who would compound and medley themselves to comply with opposite interests are disliked and maligned on both sides therefore the Praetor of the Samnites wisely observed in Livy Media via nec amicos parit nee inimicos tollit the middle way neither procures friends nor removes enemies As the Flying Fish which being partly Bird partly Fish is still persecuted in the water by the Fish and in the aire the birds have an enmity against him Thus Alphonsus observ'd of the Senenses that being Neuters in the Italian Warre were afterward made a prey on both sides comparing them to such as dwell in the middle story of a house annoyed from beneath by smoke and by urine from above Such is the condition of the Religious Hypocrite who will give God his outside but bestow his heart on some other Treasure who will serve the Devil and his Lusts under Gods Livery who will give him the courtship of the lip and knee but his Heart fall's down before some other Idol and in his breast he recanteth what his tongue and gestures pronounce And in this Scenical artificial dress he applaudeth himself secretly for thus Acting his part with two faces for his wise and crafty compliance to the doubly gainful service of two Masters As though he had found out the Polirick Art of Atoneing the opposite Interests of Heaven and Hell and marrying and compounding them in one common temper But alas nothing hath more in it of Folly for because he is a Saint though only in profession therefore the world hateth him which hateth Sheeps cloathing though upon a Wolves back and because he hath the form only denying the power therefore God hateth him the more in whose eye simulata sanctitas est duplex iniquitas sin appears double when beheld under a Mask of Holinesse The world hateth him because he seemeth good and God because he no more then seem's so Religion is the best Armour in the World but he that maketh a cloak of it will find when God calleth him to a reckoning that the stuffe will cost him dear He that under a specious and vain pretension of Sanctity hides a Nest of Lusts will at length find himself as much deluded in his close contrivance as that Cardinal Campegio was in Henry the Eight's time whose twenty richly covered Sumpter-horses being by chance overturned in Cheapside discovering nothing but a petty Magazine and Trumpery of old Bootts and Shoes and Marrow-bones exposed him to the just scoffe of all Better timely uncase thy self throw off thy Vizour and shew thy self what thou art then appear to be what thou art not but 't were best of all for thee no longer to personate and meerly act a part but truly to be what thou hast endeavoured to seem XXXIV YOung Lapwings when hatched are as it were so impatient of delay that before the shells open of themselves they break their passage through those walls not enduring to be pent up by their confinement as soon as their head and feet are at liberty they run away with the remainder yet upon them Many we have seen whom a stronge confidence grounded on but weak abilities hath put forward before their time who have rather rushed out then been sent forth that have put out on their voyage before their vessel hath been sufficiently ballasted or rigged Envoys that have gone forth before they have had Instructions like Ahimaaz who would needs be running though without a command for it and if Examind can give as little an account of what Message they bring as he could Such as are like unthrifty Heirs when they should be gathering Knowledge spend faster then they get their expences exceed their receivings Such who venture to set up though all the stock they have if any is perchance a borrow'd one who enter on an Embassy without credentials Such Lapwings as these that goe from under the wing of their Dam while their heads are green and the shell on them do soon run wild The conclusion is that as the enterprise was rash the progresse uneffectual and unprofitable so they reap in the end blushing and discomfort The protection of a flock against ravenous heasts is a weighty charge and though young David could slay the Lion and the Bear when they set upon his sheep yet every ruddy youth is not sit to be a Shepheard Where a rare precocity of understanding anticipateth years and supplieth age yet methinks that I may here apply what one said they might tarry at Jericho till their beards are grown I ever thought it more safe to be drawn forth and forced by importunities to set our hands to that Work for which who is sufficient rather then to rush on it uncalled as that for which any might be sufficient that would think himself so It is obedience to goe when we are called but to be running forth before a Gall is a too forward officiousnesse arguing pride and boldnesse If such Novices would goe and learn what that of St. James meaneth My brethren be not many teachers they would find it would give Writ of ease to their too forward Adventures XXXV OUr Saviour Luke 4. would not give the Devil Audience even where he spake truth I know thee who thou art the holy one of God refusing to have the Father of lyes bear witnesse of him because he knew he used that truth only to countenance errour And on the same account the Apostles Acts 16 17. silenced the Spirit of Divination and set a gagge in his mouth when he would have defiled the Gospell by preaching it Mat. 4. 6. we find the Devil quoting Scripture but strangely maimed perverted to make it serve his own turn for one part is left out the other misapplied We may be sure this Impostour hath never any Errand but deceit whatever Message he seems to bring This Lyar alwaies mixeth some truth with his Tale that may make way for it to enter into belief For Vice and Falshood must still borrow the assistance of Vertue and Truth There is alwaies true corn strewed under a pit-fall and they are full and weighty ears which we daube with lime to deceive the poor Birds in a snow In Lottery's there are some few prizes among many Blanks to keep up the Game Even in the