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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.
To drive home the Nail and to make all sure, that a moderate Man may not be able to stir from the Post of constant, strict, exact Duty; He tells us, There is no room for Equity or Moderation in this Case. Then, first, did he leave his Text, when he came to his Application? (in the Latitude of the Apostles sense, which must needs be large, because the Object All Men, is a general Object). The Text saith, Let your Moderation be known to all Men. The Dissenters are a very numerous Part of the Nation, some of the All Men. That which they desire, is a Freedom, or Abatement, or Omission of some things required: If we tell them with civil and respectful Language, and with tenderness of Affection and Kindness, you must conform to all things at all times, invariably to the Law, and that there is no Moderation to be exercised towards you: I pray Sir, 1. What kind of Law do you make this to be? a *Human Law, forbidding a Duty to a Divine Law. 2. What kind of Law-makers do you represent ours to be, that made a Law, forbidding the Exercise of a certain Christian Duty? For now, you know the Law being made, it is out of the Law-givers Hand and Power, till they in a legal Meeting, please to annul it; so that now you say, as much as that there is a Law that shuts out Moderation, such a Moderation as the case of Difference requires; for Moderation of Affection and good Words, doth not come home to the Dissenters Case, which requires a Moderation in Fact and Exercise? 3. What Encouragement is this for Dissenters to conform, if by their Conformity they must show no Moderation to the weak and doubting? 4. Do not you furnish them with an unanswerable Argument against Conformity?
To drive home the Nail and to make all sure, that a moderate Man may not be able to stir from the Post of constant, strict, exact Duty; He tells us, There is no room for Equity or Moderation in this Case. Then, first, did he leave his Text, when he came to his Application? (in the Latitude of the Apostles sense, which must needs be large, because the Object All Men, is a general Object). The Text saith, Let your Moderation be known to all Men. The Dissenters are a very numerous Part of the Nation, some of the All Men. That which they desire, is a Freedom, or Abatement, or Omission of some things required: If we tell them with civil and respectful Language, and with tenderness of Affection and Kindness, you must conform to all things at all times, invariably to the Law, and that there is no Moderation to be exercised towards you: I pray Sir, 1. What kind of Law do you make this to be? a