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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. Seeing we Ministers have by private Subscriptions and Promises, by open Declarations and solemn Oaths to our Diocesan obliged our selves to the constant use of the Ceremonies established by Law: I infer, That nothing less than strictness and exactness of Duty, and a ⟨p. 34⟩constant, close Conformity is required at our Hands, and that no Man can dispense with himself, and relax the Law in this case. p. 45.
2. Seeing we Ministers have by private Subscriptions and Promises, by open Deelarations and solemn Oaths to our Diocesan obliged our selves to the constant use of the Ceremonies established by Law: I infer, That nothing less than strictness and exactness of Duty, and a ⟨p. 34⟩constant, close Conformity is required at our Hands, and that no Man can dispence with himself, and relax the Law in this case. p. 45.
The Inference is drawn from four Premises. 1. The Act of Uniformity, p. 42. 2. The Declaration of Assent and Consent. 3. The Oath of Canonical Obedience, p. 43. And, 4. To make all sure, &c. There is no room for Moderation in this case, which he endeavours to prove, p. 44, 45.
The Inference is drawn from four Premises. 1. The Act of Uniformity, p. 42. 2. The Declaration of Assent and Consent. 3. The Oath of Canonical Obedience, p. 43. And, 4. To make all sure, &c. There is no room for Moderation in this case, which he endearvours to prove, p. 44, 45.
Because that which I first except against, taking the Pages in order, is the last of his Reasons for that Conclusion: I shall invert my Order, and speak to it last, and so take up the second Point in difference, in the first place,