A70766:165
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.
And to use your own Words, To make all sure, you will see the Error of your dogmatical Assertion, when you see it proved, that Moderation and Equity must be allowed in this Case, or else we are grossly abused by them that require Subscription to the Canon, and cannot subscribe with Verity and Judgment. We subscribe to the three Articles of Can. 36. In the second Article we say that the Book of Common-Prayer, and of ordering and consecrating Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, contains nothing in it contrary to the Word of God, and that it may be so used, and promise to use that Form and no other in public Prayers, and Administration of the Sacraments. Now that Canon is old, as old as 1603, and refers to the Book of Common-Prayer then in use, and not to this which in several Particulars differs from it. We do not now subscribe to that Book, as it stood then, but to a Book lately changed, in which are many things which were not in that. If there be no Moderation, or Equity of Interpretation of that Canon, and by Consequence of our Subscription, how can any Man subscribe and promise to use that Form and no other? whereas we do not subscribe to that Book then in use, to which the Canon relates, but to that which is now in use? We think now, there is and must needs be an Equity and Moderation of Construction in this case.
And to use your own Words, To make all sure, you will see the Error of your dogmatical Assertion, when you see it proved, that Moderation and Equity must be allowed in this Case, or else we are grosly abused by them that require Subscription to the Canon, and cannot subscribe with Verity and Judgment. We subscribe to the three Articles of Can. 36. In the second Article we say that the Book of Common-Prayer, and of ordering and consecrating Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, contains nothing in it contrary to the Word of God, and that it may be so used, and promise to use that Form and no other in publick Prayers, and Administration of the Sacraments. Now that Canon is old, as old as 1603, and refers to the Book of Common-Prayer then in use, and not to this which in several Particulars differs from it. We do not now subscribe to that Book, as it stood then, but to a Book lately changed, in which are many things which were not in that. If there be no Moderation, or Equity of Interpretation of that Canon, and by Consequence of our Subscription, how can any Man subscribe and promise to use that Form and no other? whereas we do not subscribe to that Book then in use, to which the Canon relates, but to that which is now in use? We think now, there is and must needs be an Equity and Moderation of Construction in this case.