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 ...
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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 ...
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Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626.
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London :: Printed by R. I. for Thomas Parkhurst ...,
1657.
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Bees -- Early works to 1800.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A56300.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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TEmporall occasions open the mines to digge out spirituall instruction: For Christians may clime by the staires of these inferiour creatures, to contemplate the glorious power of the Creator. A good Christian like the Bee works honey from every flow∣er; suffers no action, demonstration, event to step by him without a question. All objects to a meditating Solomon are like wings to reare and mount up his thoughts to heaven. As the old Romans when they saw the blew stones thought of Olympus▪ so let every object, though low in it selfe, elevate our mindes to mount Sion. A meane scaffold may serve to raise up a goodly building; it was once said, Faelix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas; now better, Faelix qui potuit rerum cognoscere casus. It is good to know the casuall beginnings of things▪ it is better to know their casuall ends It is good to be a naturall Philosopher, but better to be a supernaturall, a Chri∣stian Philosopher, that whiles we intentively observe the crea∣ture, we may attentively serve the Creator.