A70766:127
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.
1. In case scruple of Conscience, Prejudice or Fear, the Christian who takes Scripture for his Rule, finding the Gesture of the last Supper to be the same throughout, as they sate at Meat, he cannot distinguish of Predicaments of Quality and Situs, as the learned Saunderson doth (and the Circumstance of Place, the upper Room, was temporary, and not imitable, as the Gesture is) whether a Communicant, otherwise without Exception, shall be excluded for adhering ⟨p. 33⟩to the Gesture, which he finds in our lawful Translation of the New Testament?
1. In case scruple of Conscience, Prejudice or Fear, the Christian who takes Scripture for his Rule, finding the Gesture of the last Supper to be the same throughout, as they sate at Meat, he cannot distinguish of Predicaments of Quality and Situs, as the learned Saunderson doth (and the Circumstance of Place, the upper Room, was temporay, and not imitable, as the Gesture is) whether a Communicant, otherwise without Exception, shall be excluded for adhering ⟨p. 33⟩to the Gesture, which he finds in our lawful Translation of the New Testament?
2. What if a Father, otherwise prepared and without Exception, scruple Kneeling, comes to receive the Communion of his own Son, can the Son justify the rejection of his own Father from the Lord's Table? Children obey your Parents, is a Duty antecedent to Canonical Obedience, and of the Law of Nature. A Minister of a high Complexion, did refuse his own Father, and inform his Diocesan, who was known to be strict enough for all the Ceremonies; yet instead of expected Approbation, he was soundly checked for sinning against his Father.
2. What if a Father, otherwise prepared and without Exception, scruple Kneeling, comes to receive the Communion of his own Son, can the Son justify the rejection of his own Father from the Lord's Table? Children obey your Parents, is a Duty antecedent to Canonical Obedience, and of the Law of Nature. A Minister of a high Complexion, did refuse his own Father, and inform his Diocesan, who was known to be strict enough for all the Ceremonies; yet instead of expected Approbation, he was soundly check'd for sinning against his Father.