News
Cambridge Residents Slam Council Proposal to Delay Bike Lane Construction
News
‘Gender-Affirming Slay Fest’: Harvard College QSA Hosts Annual Queer Prom
News
‘Not Being Nerds’: Harvard Students Dance to Tinashe at Yardfest
News
Wrongful Death Trial Against CAMHS Employee Over 2015 Student Suicide To Begin Tuesday
News
Cornel West, Harvard Affiliates Call for University to Divest from ‘Israeli Apartheid’ at Rally
ANd the firft of them is Prudence, or Diferetion. It is faid, Pfal. 112.5. A good Manfbeweth F?vour, and lenderb; be will guide his Affairs with Difererion, (or Judgment). Now this Prudence is an Habit of the Mind, inabling a good Man to dis?ose of bis outward Affairs, in the most con??odi??s man?er. It is not that carnal Subtilly, which teaches a Man to get an Eftate by hook or crook; but that godly Wifdom, which is confiftent with a good Confcience. When the Apoftle, James 3.17. mentions the Wisdom which is from above; he plainly implies that there is a Wifdom which is from below . And as the former is the Gift of God, who gives it liberally to thofe that ask it, as Solomon did; fo the latter is earthly, fenfual, and devilif? . Subtilty is nothing elfe but Wifdom degenerate; and Prudence is only Subtilty ftrain'd and purg'd from all Injuftice.
Now true Prudence and Piety were always very good Friends. He, that was Imocency it felf, commended a Serpent's Eye in a Dove's Head: Mat. 10.16. Be ye therefore mife as Ser???, and ???lefs as Doves . Doves, not to hurt or wrong others; Serpents, not to be hurt or wronged
Want to keep up with breaking news? Subscribe to our email newsletter.