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Moderation a virtue, or, A vindication of the principles and practices of the moderate…Moderation a vertue, or, A vindication of the principles and practices of the moderate…
Moderation a virtue, or, A vindication of the principles and practices of the moderate divines and laity of the Church of England represented in some late immoderate discourses, under the nick-names of Grindalizers and Trimmers / by a lover of moderation, resident upon his cure ; with an appendix, demonstrating that parish-churches are no conventicles ... in answer to a late pamphlet entitled, Parish-churches turned into conventicles, &c.Moderation a vertue, or, A vindication of the principles and practices of the moderate divines and laity of the Church of England represented in some late immoderate discourses, under the nick-names of Grindalizers and Trimmers / by a lover of moderation, resident upon his cure ; with an appendix, demonstrating that parish-churches are no conventicles ... in answer to a late pamphlet entitled, Parish-churches turned into conventicles, &c.
London: printed for Jonathan Robinson, 1683
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Thirdly, He delivers some Things positively, which are dubious, and therefore which may be untrue; pag. 37. These are moderate Men in one sense, i.e. they have a moderate Esteem of, and a moderate Love for that Church, in whose Communion they live, and resolve to die, so long as she is up; but if she were down, they could contentedly enough survive her Ruin, and perhaps they might live the longer. Now either this Picture of a moderate Lay Church-man is a Creature of his own Fancy, or a real Being: if a real Being, and a true Man, he is one of his own Acquaintance, or not; if not of his Acquaintance, he paints him by the Ear, by Report, and not by the Eye of his own Knowledge. Let him either reform him if he can, or keep no Acquaintance with him. If he be a real Man, he speaks the Language of Abhorrers and Addressers, who often promise to live and die for the Church, as established by Law; and they are concerned in the Character, drawn (one would think) with too ⟨p. 28⟩heavy a hand, and Pencil made of too course Bristles, for a moderate Man to use.
Thirdly, He delivers some Things positively, which are dubious, and therefore which may be untrue; pag. 37. These are moderate Men in one sence, i.e. they have a moderate Esteem of, and a moderate Love for that Church, in whose Communion they live, and resolve to die, so long as she is up; but if she were down, they could contentedly enough survive her Ruine, and perhaps they might live the longer. Now either this Picture of a moderate Lay Church-man is a Creature of his own Fancy, or a real Being: if a real Being, and a true Man, he is one of his own Acquaintance, or not; if not of his Acquaintance, he paints him by the Ear, by Report, and not by the Eye of his own Knowledg. Let him either reform him if he can, or keep no Acquaintance with him. If he be a real Man, he speaks the Language of Abhorrers and Addressers, who often promise to live and die for the Church, as established by Law; and they are concerned in the Character, drawn (one would think) with too ⟨p. 28⟩heavy a hand, and Pencil made of too course Bristles, for a moderate Man to use.