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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	army_n	camp_n	night_n	1,297	5	6.4250	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56300	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 ...	Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626.	1657 (1657)	Wing P4224; ESTC R6282	278,822	394

creature that shall endure to everlasting The worke of a Physitian is to cure nature not to weaken it but if the body be distempered it must be weakened before it be strengthened to make that sound he must give them strong purgations that shall afflict them and affect them as much as the disease for a while but all is to make them strong afterwards So God afflicts us to drive us out of our selves that we may come at last to trust in him in whom is all our good and happinesse LXXXV Bees live like Souldiers in a Camp and therefore as besieged Cities or Armies that feare an approaching enemy never dare give themselves wholly over to securitie but alwayes night and day have their scouts centiness corp du guard to keepe watch and ward least some of their many enemies should by a sudden Camisado surprize or beate up their quarters We have a hellish enemy the Devill a roaring Lion who waiteth for a time of drowsie securitie wherein he may suddenly seize on us and teare us in peices Therefore when the●e seemes to be most securitie and cessation of spirituall armes let us conceive the most danger to be at hand and prepare and arme our selves against the day of battell For Hierom saith truly Tun● maxime expugnaris cum te expugnari nos●is thou br● most assaulted when thou feel●st no assault When our adversary seemes to sleepe he watcheth but an opportunitie to run upon us and destroy us If wee were assured that some fearefull enemy was upon his march and approaching towards us with fire and sword the trumpets sounding the drummes thundering the horses neighing and the Cannons roaring what watch and ward would we keepe how would every one bestirre him and who would not thrust himselfe into the danger and be ready to stand in the gap to save his Countrey his life his friends his libertie his goods But Satan our Arch-enemy who seeketh to destroy that which is farre more precious unto us then all these things yea then all the world For what shall it profit a man if he shall gaine the whole world and lose his owne soule is not only approaching but also encamped against us with all his forces and shall we now sleepe in sinne and be senselesse in grosse securitie LXXXVI Bee Masters tell us that they are the best hives which make the greatest noyse so that is the best conscience which makes the greatest noyse with daily reasonings before it's owne barre If we never goe to bed before we have parlied it out throughly with our hearts then we shall find of our selves as Alexander said of Antipater That he did weare white garments without and was purple within so we will give no rest till we find some comfortable testimony of our amendment LXXXVII It is observable that the creatures nearest the earth are most greedy to accumulate what creature stores up so much provision as the Bee But the birds of the ayre that flie next heaven neither sow nor reape nor carry into the barne saith our Saviour We are next to heaven in profession let us hate to be furthest off in conversation LXXXVIII Bees are small creatures but have great and dareing spirits and almost deadly poyson though industry and diligence can worke much to tame other creatures yet little on this by a continued converse and frequent presence their rage and fury may be palliated but once provoked neare the hive they acknowledge no respect to any For the most part those beasts have least immanitie that have most strength Oxen Horses and Elephants are tame and serviceable but Bees and Waspes have stings So wisely hath the Creator disposed that there might not be a conjunction et potentiae et malevolentiae that malice and might may not meete so they are suffered to have will to hurt and not power or power and not will LXXXIX Religion is the greatest enemy to religion the false to the true favos etiam vespae faciunt Waspes also make combes though instead of honey we find gun-powder XC The grub or worme in it's first state or life is a rude creature not much delighting in it selfe lesse delighting others but when it is shut up to be transmuted then it is for a time a formelesse lump without any beauty or comelinesse but waite a few dayes and the parts will appeare life will move in these yet imperfect members which are at length perfectly formed and then it comes forth an agill usefull creature And as God doth not make the whole fabrick of the world at once though it wa● not impossible to him being a God almighty but in the space of six dayes so doth God deale with his children when God creates in his children a new heart he suffers first their hearts to be as a rude and massie lumpe full of darknesse and then sends his holy Spirit into their hearts which illuminates them and drives away those black clouds of darknesse and ignorance and then he breathes into them the sweete ayre of his Spirit And thus out of Tohu and B●hu is the new creature formed XCI We should doe as the Bee when she hath sucked sweetnesse from the flower she better concocts and refires it in her owne bodie and so it becomes pure honey Thus when we have sucked any precious truth we should by holy meditation concoct it in our hearts and then it would become pure profitable honey XCII The young Bees as soone as they have past their second birth and transmuted their shape and qualities and are winged and strengthened to flie abroad presently fall to their worke and imitate the elder Bees And so doth the beleeving soule as soone as it is borne againe strengthened and winged with grace from God makes after him in workes of obedience holinesse and praises imitates the examples of the Prophets and Apostles as they have followed Christ. Let disadvantages be what will be you cannot keepe young Bees in the hive when once transmuted and winged no more can you keepe the regenerate soule from working the workes of God and with holy praises ascending to heaven when they are once under the line of Christs everlasting love and feele it shine mighty hot in them with full face with perpendicular rayes but with a present rapture make holinesse their worke and Hallelujahs all their language XCIII Honey is gathered with much art from great variety of trees and flowers and joy is a honey a fragrancy made from above with much picking choosing and composing XCIV Bees are neate sweete and cleanly creatures naturally abhorring stinking places and strong senting herbes It is true they gather of the flowers of some weeds which are bitter and offensive but yet the flowers are not as Broome Henbane Mayweed as your tast and smell may informe you But where the flowers participate of the ill sent of the herbes they meddle not at all as Gallopsia Cheesrunnet And Christ puts