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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.
That I may not be mistaken, I desire it may be noted, we are now come from one Word to another, viz. from a close, strict, exact Conformity to an Uniformity, which is the design and scope of that close Conformity.
That I may not be mistaken, I desire it may be noted, we are now come from one Word to another, viz. from a close, strict, exact Conformity to an Vniformity, which is the design and scope of that close Conformity.
To this it is applied;
1. The Act doth enjoin an Uniformity by a Book named in it; We declare our Assent to the use of that Book; and he that puts that Sense of strict, close, constant use of all and every thing, doth add to the Law, and by a rigorous Interpretation of it, is as far from an honest Moderation, or Equity, as he that doth transgress the Law, Relaxation nimia.
1. The Act doth enjoyn an Uniformity by a Book named in it; We declare our Assent to the use of that Book; and he that puts that Sence of strict, close, constant use of all and every thing, doth add to the Law, and by a rigorous Interpretation of it, is as far from an honest Moderation, or Equity, as he that doth transgress the Law, Relaxatione nimia.