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 her we are surrounded by all other blessings. Prudence does not only shew itself in words, but in all the circumstances of life, and is like an under agent of Providence, to guide and direct us in all our concerns. There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as prudence; it is this which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them to work in their proper times and places, and turns them to advantage. Without prudence, cunning is pedantry, zeal rashness, and even virtue weak and almost useless.

PARTY spirit, is a disposition not easily defined; it is a monstrous composition of many bad qualities. Sometimes it is ignorance, which prevents us from receiving some important truths; and sometimes it is arrogance which rashly maintains whatever it has once advanced, and chiefly because it is too mortifying to yield, and to say, “I am wrong, I mistook.”

2. A party spirit, is that disposition which envenoms and contracts so many hearts, separates so many families, divides so many societies, and undermines real religion; party spirit, not only incapacitates for sweet communion with God, but by encouraging pride, and many evil passions it frequently excites to malice and barbarity, and the most bitter persecutions.

3. Party-work, is the madness of many, for the gain of a few. There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which