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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
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2. This Uniformity may in a warrantable sense, be taken in opposition to a Diversity of public Forms, or a Multiformity; that this is not the sense of Knaves, or the invention of Church-Moles and Vipers, is plain by the Preface, as it was called in the Common-Prayer-Book of K. Edw. the Ivth, and in our Book follows the new Preface, Concerning the Service of the Church, wherein are these words; And whereas heretofore there hath been a great Diversity in saying and singing in Churches within this Realm; some following Salisbury, some Hereford, and some the use of Bangor, some of York, some of Lincoln; now from henceforth all the whole Realm shall have but one Use. If therefore we follow, and use the same Book, we observe the Uniformity required, and explained in that Preface, still continued in this present Book, which is established by Law, and by Consequence, this is a publicly allowed, and a legal Sense.
2. This Uniformity may in a warrantable sense, be taken in opposition to a Diversity of publick Forms, or a Multiformity; that this is not the sense of Knaves, or the invention of Church-Moles and Vipers, is plain by the Preface, as it was called in the Common-Prayer-Book of K. Edw. the IVth, and in our Book follows the new Preface, Concerning the Service of the Church, wherein are these words; And whereas heretofore there hath been a great Diversity in saying and singing in Churches within this Realm; some following Salisbury, some Hereford, and some the use of Bangor, some of York, some of Lincoln; now from henceforth all the whole Realm shall have but one Use. If therefore we follow, and use the same Book, we observe the Vniformity required, and explained in that Preface, still continued in this present Book, which is established by Law, and by Consequence, this is a publickly allowed, and a legal Sence.
3. If we take our Uniformity, not only oppositivè, to a Multiformity of ancient Forms and Uses; but appositivè, conformable to the Rubrics and Orders, which are the Rule of our Uniformity, we shall find the Uniformity to be in many Things but general, and not particular: Therefore the Uniformity required by Law, is not a particular, close, strict Uniformity; and by consequence, a strict, close, constant Conformity, taking Conformity in the same Sense as Uniformity, is not required, and therefore not to be inferred, as if all Ministers always were obliged to do the same Things, which is the Import of the Inference which I oppose. And this, I conceive, will appear in two Instances: