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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. The omitting of a Ceremony is no such great Crime, in the Judgment of the Reformers of this Church, as this Reverend Preacher exclaims against; in that Account of Ceremonies, why some be abolished, and some retained, we read this moderate Passage: And although the keeping or omitting of a Ceremony, in it self considered, is but a small thing; yet the wilful and contemptuous Transgression, and breaking of common Order and Discipline, is no small Offence before God. We admit this, and say, that if sometimes we omit the Use of any of these Ceremonies, suppose in compliance with tender Consciences, or for some weighty reason, we willingly do it, but not wilfully and contemptuously; and therefore occasional, and sometimes necessary Omissions, are but small Offences.
1. The omitting of a Ceremony is no such great Crime, in the Judgment of the Reformers of this Church, as this Reverend Preacher exclaims against; in that Account of Ceremonies, why some be abolished, and some retained, we read this moderate Passage: And altho the keeping or omitting of a Ceremony, in it self considered, is but a small thing; yet the wilful and contemptuous Transgression, and breaking of common Order and Discipline, is no small Offence before God. We admit this, and say, that if sometimes we omit the Use of any of these Ceremonies, suppose in compliance with tender Consciences, or for some weighty reason, we willingly do it, but not wilfully and contemptuously; and therefore occasional, and sometimes necessary Omissions, are but small Offences.
2. Why may not a moderate Minister sometimes omit the wearing of the Surplice, as well as the Brethren, who seem to be the exact Patterns and Exemplars of Conformity, omit the wearing of such Ornaments of the Church, and Ministers thereof, at all times of their Ministration, (such as Copes and Hoods) as were in this Church of England, by Authority of Parliament, in the second Year of the Reign ⟨p. 38⟩of King Edward the Sixth? See the Rubric or Section, [And here is to be noted, &c.] after the Order for Morning and Evening-Prayer.