The spiritual bee, or, A miscellany of scriptural, historical, natural observations and occasional occurencyes applyed in divine meditations by an university pen
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- The spiritual bee, or, A miscellany of scriptural, historical, natural observations and occasional occurencyes applyed in divine meditations by an university pen
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- Oxford :: Printed by A. & L. Lichfield for Edw. & Joh. Forrest,
- 1662.
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"The spiritual bee, or, A miscellany of scriptural, historical, natural observations and occasional occurencyes applyed in divine meditations by an university pen." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A44560.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 28, 2025.
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To the Much Honored Sr. COPLESTON BAMPFIELD High Sheriff for the County of Devon.
Much Honored Sir,
I should not have known how to have skreened my self from the imputation of Overvaluing this Paper, if I had thought it had merited your Acceptance, much less your Patronage: for, in refe∣rence to the latter, as I esteem custom no sufficient Warranty, for men's making the Portal a
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guard & defence to the City, judging themselves sufficient∣ly secured from those assails to which they are otherwise liable and exposed, by place∣ing some Name of Repute in the Entry; so I could not but account it, as highly above the infirmities as the bulk of this pamphlet, to deserve the Pas∣port of your Name standing in the Front, to induce the world (which is that I designe in this Dedication) to be at least Civill to it: And in reference to the former, could these Lines change their hue and put on Red, they would but in type represent that Consci∣ousness of many imperfections which Guilt hath made legible in the Authours Countenance:
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So that waving all plea of Ti∣tle by desert, to your accept∣ance as well as Protection, I must cast my self entirely up∣on your Pardon; which I pre∣sume I shall not be long in suing out, having anticipated the severest Award any other Judge can passe, by a more rigid Censure of my own, which I hope will procure fa∣vour for him, who is
Much Hond. Sir,
Yours truly devoted in all Christian Ob∣servance.
Oxon. Aug. 2d. 1661.