A Bough by being lopp'd off from another, must of Necessity be lopp'd from the whole Tree: Thus a Man that breaks with another looses the Benefit of the whole Community. 'Tis true a Bough is lopp'd off by a Foreign Hand ; But this Moral Amputation is all Voluntary; 'Tis the Man that pulls himself asunder by his untoward Aversion to his Neighbour : He little thinks by this unhappy Division, how he Disincorporates himself from the Body of Mankind ! And here the Goodness of God who founded this Society is extraordinary. He has put it in our Power to grow to the Limb we left, and come again into the Advantage of the main Body, But if this Misfortune is often repeated, 'twill be a hard Matter to restore the Part, and close the Division. For as Gardiners observe, a Bough cut off and Graffed in again, is not in the same good Condition, with another which always Flourish'd upon the Trunk ; For, tho' the first does not grow out of its Kind, yet it suffers somewhat in its Figure and Beauty. ⁹