a ees 
Their Sex, &e. 1OY 
A'nd thus has God punifhed our Pride and 
Prefumption in afpiring to be as Gods, 
knowing both Good and Evil. 
Since then there are fuch Secrets and 
Myfteries in the Kingdom of Nature, as alfo 
of Providence; why may there not be the 
fame in the Kingdom of the Redeemer ? * 
Or why fhould thefe be any Objection 
againft the Chriftian Religion, fo fully at- 
tefted by it’s Divine Author, and confirmed 
by fo great a Number of inconteftible Mi- 
racles, which were his Credentials, the Evi- 
dences of his Divine’ Miffion, that he really 
came from God, and was no Impoftor or 
Deceiver? One Remark more relating to the 
Drones fhall clofe this Section. 
If thefe Infects (whether Males or Females) 
minifter nothing towards the Multiplication 
of the Species ; if we allow them not to be the 
Fathers of the Family, the Parents of fo 
large a Progeny: Of what Ufe or Service 
are they in the State? As Nature doth no- 
thing in vain, it is but reafonable to fuppofe 
they have fome peculiar Province, or Office 
appointed for them, 
In Anfwer to which many, who haye 
treated on this Subject, tell us, they are, © 
by their Numbers and Bulk together, ereatly 
helpful in hatching up and haftening the 
young Brood, 
H 3 But 
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