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Considerations of the existence of God and of the immortality of the soul, with…
Considerations of the existence of God and of the immortality of the soul, with the recompenses of the future state for the cure of infidelity, the hectic evil of the times / by William Bates ...Considerations of the existence of God and of the immortality of the soul, with the recompences of the future state for the cure of infidelity, the hectick evil of the times / by William Bates ...
London: printed by J.D. for Brabazon Aylmer, 1676
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.
—some there are maintain That Bees derived from a Celestial strain, And Heavenly race.
—some there are maintain That Bees deriv'd from a Coelestial strain, And Heavenly race.
What moves the Swallows upon the approach of Winter to fly to a more temperate Clime, as if they understood the Celestial Signs, the Influences of the Stars, and the Changes of the Seasons? From whence comes the fore-sight of the Ants to provide in Summer for Winter? their economy fervour, ⟨p. 32⟩their discretion in assisting one another, as if knowing that every one laboured for all, and where the benefit is common the labour must be common; their care to fortify their receptacles with a bank of Earth that in great rains, it may not be overflowed, have made them the fit emblems of prudent diligence.
What moves the Swallows upon the approach of Winter to fly to a more temperate Clime, as if they understood the Celestial Signs, the Influences of the Stars, and the Changes of the Seasons? From whence comes the fore-sight of the Ants to provide in Summer for Winter? their oeconomy fervour, ⟨p. 32⟩their discretion in assisting one another, as if knowing that every one labour'd for all, and where the benefit is common the labour must be common; their care to fortifie their receptacles with a banck of Earth that in great rains, it may not be overflowed, have made them the fit emblems of prudent diligence.
This is excellently described by Virgil.