2. Neither can the second part of the choicest wisdom out
of Christ attain the peculiar end whereunto it is appointed; and that is
prudence in the management of civil affairs, — than which no
perishing thing is more glorious, — nothing more useful for the common good
of human kind. Now, the immediate end of this prudence is to keep the
rational world in bounds and order, to draw circles about the sons of
men, and to keep them from passing their allotted bounds and limits, to the
mutual disturbance and destruction of each other. All manner of trouble
and disturbance ariseth from irregularity: one man breaking in upon the
rights, usages, interests, relations of another, sets this world at
variance. The sum and aim of all wisdom below is, to cause all things to
move in their proper sphere, whereby it would be impossible there should be
any more interfering than is in the celestial orbs, notwithstanding all
their divers and various motions: to keep all to their own allotments,
within the compass of the lines that are fallen unto them, is the special
end of this wisdom.