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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.
3. Yet supposing or granting most of the things to be true, and they as material as any we offer to the Judgment of our Censors, some Considerations, if not to vindicate the accused, yet certainly to alleviate the Charge, and take the Charge by parts.
First; The Moderate Church-man is one, that upon occasion will marry without a Ring. We answer;
1. This Ceremony doth more concern the Persons to be married, than the Minister that marrieth them; for the Rubric saith, Then shall they again loose their Hands, and the Man shall give unto the Woman a Ring, laying the same upon the Book, &c. And the Priest taking the Ring shall deliver it unto the Man. It concerns the Man to bring and provide the Ring, and the Woman to receive it, because of what is conveyed to her by it.
1. This Ceremony doth more concern the Persons to be married, than the Minister that marrieth them; for the Rubrick saith, Then shall they again loose their Hands, and the Man shall give unto the Woman a Ring, laying the same upon the Book, &c. And the Priest taking the Ring shall deliver it unto the Man. It concerns the Man to bring and provide the Ring, and the Woman to receive it, because of what is conveyed to her by it.