Cruelty and Revenge are directly contrary to the very Nature of the
Divine Goodness, and the Mischief that is Design’d for Other People
returns commonly upon the Head of the Author.
How many Men are there in the World, that put up as Malicious Prayers in
Christian Assemblies to the True God, as the _Bee_ does to _Jupiter_ here
in the Fable! And Prayers too against their very Patrons and Masters;
their Benefactors, that Entertain, Feed, and Protect them. Will Heaven
Hear These Prayers, shall we think, (or Curses rather) and not Punish
them? This _Bee_ did not Pray for a Power to Kill, without a Previous
Disposition and Design to put that Venemous Power in Execution. She had
Mischief in her Heart already, and only Wanted some Destructive Faculty,
answerable to her Will: And so pray’d to _Jupiter_, as Men do in many
Cases to the _Jehovah_, for the Blessing of an Ability to Commit Murder.