A70766:164
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.
But Sir, you produce our Subscription and Assent against us, and is there no Moderation of Sense and Interpretation of it? You may soon know, that the Learned Mr. Chillingworth hath given a Sense of our Subscription to the Articles. Preface Sect. 40. and it passed with the Approbation of the Vice-Chancellor, and Professors of Divinity in Oxford. The like is done by Arch-bishop Bramhall's Vindication of the Church of England, p. 156. the first Edit. And for the Book of Common-Prayer be pleased to cast an Eye upon the last Preface before the now enjoined Book, speaking of the former Book: The Authors ⟨p. 41⟩of it say, they were fully persuaded in their Judgments, that the Book doth not contain in it any thing contrary to the Word of God, or sound Doctrine, or which a godly Man may not with a good Conscience use and submit to, or which is not fairly defensible against any that shall oppose the same, if it shall be allowed such just and favourable Construction as in common Equity ought to be allowed to all human Writings, especially such as are set forth by Authority, and even to the best Translations of the holy Scripture it self. Here is some Equity of Construction, and Moderation in reference to the Book of Common-Prayer, to which we assent, supposing the same applicable to this, which is spoken of the former, which pretends to no higher Authority than that did.
But Sir, you produce our Subscription and Assent against us, and is there no Moderation of Sence and Interpretation of it? You may soon know, that the Learned Mr. Chillingworth hath given a Sense of our Subscription to the Articles. Preface Sect. 40. and it passed with the Approbation of the Vice-Chancellor, and Professors of Divinity in Oxford. The like is done by Arch-bishop Bramhall's Vindication of the Church of England, p. 156. the first Edit. And for the Book of Common-Prayer be pleased to cast an Eye upon the last Preface before the now enjoyned Book, speaking of the former Book: The Authors ⟨p. 41⟩of it say, they were fully perswaded in their Judgments, that the Book doth not contain in it any thing contrary to the Word of God, or sound Doctrine, or which a godly Man may not with a good Conscience use and submit to, or which is not fairly defensible against any that shall oppose the same, if it shall be allowed such just and favourable Construction as in common Equity ought to be allowed to all human Writings, especially such as are set forth by Authority, and even to the best Translations of the holy Scripture it self. Here is some Equity of Construction, and Moderation in reference to the Book of Common-Prayer, to which we assent, supposing the same applicable to this, which is spoken of the former, which pretends to no higher Authority than that did.