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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.
Upon him I observe, 1. That this free and open Preacher saith, He cannot accuse any Minister upon his own Knowledge so depainted, and therefore this is not a Creature of his own Fancy neither, but of some other Men's Fancy sure, come to his Knowledge, it seems by Report or Tradition. But if he had not believed it, why would he preach and print it?
Upon him I observe, 1. That this free and open Preacher saith, He cannot accuse any Minister upon his own Knowledg so depainted, and therefore this is not a Creature of his own Fancy neither, but of some other Men's Fancy sure, come to his Knowledg, it seems by Report or Tradition. But if he had not believed it, why would he preach and print it?
To this we have two things to say;
1. We deny the Accusation as it stands; we disown the Picture, it is not ours, we know no such Church-men, or to speak plainly, such a pretended Conformist as is here represented.
2. If there be any such, it is not just, to fasten that upon more than are faulty.