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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.
2. What Rubric or Canon doth enjoin the Minister to provide one? Or, what is his punishment if he do not marry with it? We know the Wisdom of the Church looks to greater matters in Can. 62. censuring the Minister, if he marry without asking Banes, Certificate, or Consent of Parents, or out of the Canonical Hours; from which ⟨p. 30⟩no Men are more free, than they who are called Moderate Church-Men.
2. What Rubrick or Canon doth enjoyn the Minister to provide one? Or, what is his punishment if he do not marry with it? We know the Wisdom of the Church looks to greater matters in Can. 62. censuring the Minister, if he marry without asking Banes, Certificate, or Consent of Parents, or out of the Canonical Hours; from which ⟨p. 30⟩no Men are more free, than they who are called Moderate Church-Men.
3. Is there no occasion upon which this may either be justified or excused? As if, 1. The Minister and the Persons, be not worth a Ring. 2. If the Man cannot buy, and the Woman resolve if they may not be married with a Ring of her Husband's Gift, they will be married without. 3. Or in case the Ring be forgotten, and the place where they are to be married cannot afford one, and the time be so near out, that they cannot fetch one. Shall an Ordinance be denied for want of a Ceremony? Or, what if the Man must take his Bride in the Humour? Or there will be loss to both, if they put it off to another day? Or lastly, suppose the Parties scruple the Ceremony, shall we refuse to execute a Law of Nature, for want of an Arbitrary Local Ceremony?
3. Is there no occasion upon which this may either be justified or excused? As if, 1. The Minister and the Persons, be not worth a Ring. 2. If the Man cannot buy, and the Woman resolve if they may not be married with a Ring of her Husbund's Gift, they will be married without. 3. Or in case the Ring be forgotten, and the place where they are to be married cannot afford one, and the time be so near out, that they cannot fetch one. Shall an Ordinance be denied for want of a Ceremony? Or, what if the Man must take his Bride in the Humour? Or there will be loss to both, if they put it off to another day? Or lastly, suppose the Parties scruple the Ceremony, shall we refuse to execute a Law of Nature, for want of an Arbitrary Local Ceremony?