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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.
The Proposition is proved, because we as Christians and Ministers, are bound to let our Moderation be known to all Men: and this Moderation is not only a Moderation of good Language, and abstinence from Passion, but in Fact and Deed. But let us try the strength of the Premises, and if they be removed or shaken, his Inference and Superstructure will fall with all his Confidence. And first, let us see if such Words be contained in, or drawn from our Subscription to the second Article of the 36 Canon; wherein the Subscriber doth promise that he will use the Form prescribed in the said Book, in public Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, and no other. (And no other shall be explained afterwards.) The Promise is a general Promise, and because general, is capable of a Latitude, and that, nothing less than Strictness and Exactness, and a close constant Conformity, ⟨p. 35⟩is more than the Canon speaks, an Addition to the Law, which enjoins the use of it, and no other Form in Competition or Opposition to it. That Inference from this Promise of using it, is denied, and cannot be admitted, except the Law-givers declare that to be the meaning of it.
The Proposition is proved, because we as Christians and Ministers, are bound to let our Moderation be known to all Men: and this Moderation is not only a Moderation of good Language, and abstinence from Passion, but in Fact and Deed. But let us try the strength of the Premises, and if they be removed or shaken, his Inference and Superstructure will fall with all his Confidence. And first, let us see if such Words be contained in, or drawn from our Subscription to the second Article of the 36 Canon; wherein the Subscriber doth promise that he will use the Form prescribed in the said Book, in publick Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, and no other. (And no other shall be explained afterwards.) The Promise is a general Promise, and because general, is capable of a Latitude, and that, nothing less than Strictness and Exactness, and a close constant Conformity, ⟨p. 35⟩is more than the Canon speaks, an Addition to the Law, which enjoyns the use of it, and no other Form in Competition or Opposition to it. That Inference from this Promise of using it, is denied, and cannot be admitted, except the Law-givers declare that to be the meaning of it.