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A discovery of D. Jacksons vanity. Or A perspective glass, whereby the admirers of…A discovery of D. Iacksons vanitie. Or A perspective glasse, wherby the admirers of…
A discovery of D. Jacksons vanity. Or A perspective glass, whereby the admirers of D. Jacksons profound discourses, may see the vanity and weakness of them, in sundry passages, and especially so far as they tend to the undermining of the doctrine hitherto received. Written by William Twice, Doctor of Divinity, as they say, from whom the copy came to the pressA discovery of D. Iacksons vanitie. Or A perspective glasse, wherby the admirers of D. Iacksons profound discourses, may see the vanitie and weaknesse of them, in sundry passages, and especially so farre as they tende to the undermining of the doctrine hitherto received. Written by William Twisse, Doctor of Divinitie, as they say, from whom the copie came to the presse
Amsterdam: printed by the successors of Giles Thorp, 1631
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
What art, what industry is found in the little Be in the gathering of his wax, in the fashioning of his combs, in the gathering of honey of divers sorts, every one following and plying his proper and peculiar flower, and afterwards tempering it, the liquid stuff brought in their bottles, with the grosser stuff brought upon their thighs, and bringing it to that perfection which we see and use both for dainty food, and wholesome physic: then their government under one King as the Ancients conceived, but indeed under one Queen rather, as later writers even of these days have elegantly observed, ⟨p. 307⟩and the exquisite manner of a common wealth among them. Is not the wisdom of God observable in this? And as it was said of such as suddenly became Prophets, But who is 1their father? so may we ask concerning these, Who is their father, or who their Schoolmaster that instructed them, and bred them up in this occupation? I say the wisdom of God doth appear more in these then in the actions of men. For we know by what means men usually attain to wisdom, as namely, by instruction and by observation, but no such thing to be found in Bees; therefore this wonderful work being a work of nature, must necessarily be ascribed to the God of nature. But suppose the wisdom of God were to be observed no where but in the actions of men, is not the world of men sufficient to afford particulars sufficient for induction thereupon to conclude general rules?
What art, what industry is found in the little Bee in the gathering of his waxe, in the fashioning of his combes, in the gathering of honey of divers sorts, every one following and plying his proper and peculiar flowre, and afterwards tempering it, the liquid stuffe brought in their bottles, with the grosser stuffe brought upon their thighes, and bringing it to that perfection which wee see and use both for dainty food, and wholesome physicke: then their government under one King as the Ancients conceived, but indeed under one Queen rather, as later writers even of these dayes have elegantly observed, ⟨p. 307⟩and the exquisite manner of a common wealth among them. Is not the wisedome of God observable in this? And as it was said of such as suddenly became Prophets, But who is