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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
To the reader: To the Reverend Clergy, and Honoured Gentlemen, who are Truly Moderate.
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.
They think they have convinced us into an inexcusable Acknowledgement of our Sin, or Silence, by telling us of the Obligation of our Subscriptions, and there is no room for exercising any Moderation; and yet how could they ever▪have subscribed to the Articles of the Church, without a Salvo, an express or tacit qualification or mitigation of Sense, only as Articles of Peace? If we show Moderation in Things of an indifferent nature, separate from the Command, and in many occasions of our Ministry inexpedient, we are suspected to overthrow the Government, and to undermine the Church. But if this be the pernicious Effect of Moderation in point of Ceremony, what will their Moderation come to in Articles and ⟨image 4⟩Matters of Faith? How common a thing is it to take the Articles of the Church in a lax Construction, as Articles of Peace? What Authors are more commonly bought, and at dearer Rates, than those which either depart from, or are most contrary to the professed Doctrines of our Homilies and Articles? And Men have past with an allowed loose Sense of the Articles, that had not so passed in other Matters of Subscription. A considerable Instance of this deserves our notice.
They think they have convinced us into an inexcusable Acknowledgment of our Sin, or Silence, by telling us of the Obligation of our Subscriptions, and there is no room for exercising any Moderation; and yet how could they ever▪have subscribed to the Articles of the Church, without a Salvo, an express or tacit qualification or mitigation of Sence, only as Articles of Peace? If we shew Moderation in Things of an indifferent nature, separate from the Command, and in many occasions of our Ministry inexpedient, we are suspected to overthrow the Government, and to undermine the Church. But if this be the pernicious Effect of Moderation in point of Ceremony, what will their Moderation come to in Articles and ⟨image 4⟩Matters of Faith? How common a thing is it to take the Articles of the Church in a lax Construction, as Articles of Peace? What Authors are more commonly bought, and at dearer Rates, than those which either depart from, or are most contrary to the professed Doctrines of our Homilies and Articles? And Men have past with an allowed loose Sence of the Articles, that had not so passed in other Matters of Subscription. A considerable Instance of this deserves our notice.