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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Title: 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 ...
Author: Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626.
Publication: London :: Printed by R. I. for Thomas Parkhurst ...,; 1657.
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Subject terms: Bees -- Early works to 1800.
Cite this Item: "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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Bees are not only laborious when they are in want, and their provision small, but when they are largely supplyed, they are as earnestly bent on their gathering as if they had nothing. Beleevers are not to stint their endeavou••s, when they have at∣tained to a competency of knowledge, but to goe on still for∣ward and grow, for though they have enough to make them thankfull, yet never enough to make them remisse and negli∣gent, they must still presse forwards, like runners in a race, and look not how much they have runne, but how much remaines: let it alwayes displease thee to continue as thou art, if thou meanest to arrive where thou art not.