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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.
1. Of the Prayers and Hymns. 2. Of the Ceremonies, which the exact Conformist drives at.
First; Sometimes you are directed to One or This in several Offices. Now suppose the Minister of St. Ethelbert, for instance, shall say the Te Deum; and his next Neighbours of St. Helen's, and Bishopsgate, or St. Mary Axe, shall say Jubilate Deo; the one use one Hymn or Prayer, and the other another; one should dip, and the other sprinkle: Where such Diversity is allowed, they all conform, but do not keep to a particular Uniformity.
First; Sometimes you are directed to One or This in several Offices. Now suppose the Minister of St. Ethelbert, for instance, shall say the Te Deum; and his next Neighbours of St. Helen's, and Bishopsgate, or St. Mary Ax, shall say Jubilate Deo; the one use one Hymn or Prayer, and the other another; one should dip, and the other sprinkle: Where such Diversity is allowed, they all conform, but do not keep to a particular Uniformity.
But you'll say, Here's no Omission of any Thing required. True, but let us modestly see, if there be not some Omissions also allowed, which will make a Difformity from the Use of our rigid Interpreters; and whether the Composers of our Book have not been accessary to propagate or countenance a Sect of moderate Men in the Church. Suppose a Man affirm, that a strict, close, constant Use of the Litany be enjoined every Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday; how will he prove it? We think, not clearly and convincingly by the Rubric, which is the Rule of our Uniformity, which is this: Here followeth the Litany, or general Supplication, to be sung or said after Morning-Prayer, upon Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and at other Times, when it shall be commanded by the Ordinary.
But you'll say, Here's no Omission of any Thing required. True, but let us modestly see, if there be not some Omissions also allowed, which will make a Difformity from the Use of our rigid Interpreters; and whether the Composers of our Book have not been accessary to propagate or countenance a Sect of moderate Men in the Church. Suppose a Man affirm, that a strict, close, constant Use of the Letany be enjoined every Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday; how will he prove it? We think, not clearly and convincingly by the Rubrick, which is the Rule of our Uniformity, which is this: Here followeth the Letany, or general Supplication, to be sung or said after Morning-Prayer, upon Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and at other Times, when it shall be commanded by the Ordinary.