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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
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This Reverend Man thought there was strength enough in his main Body of Arguments to bear down the whole Force of the feeble moderate Party. But to make all sure, he hath placed two Reserves, the Power of the King in his Declaration, to stand to the Act of Uniformity, Anno 1662. and the other, the Power of the House of Commons Vote, of Feb. 15. 1662. to grant no Indulgence to the Dissenters from the Act of Uniformity.
Now against this Reserve, we are not afraid to come out with as great an Authority as he argues under; and we think, we have the better, because it is a later, and the fruit of twelve Years Experience. See the King's Declaration of Indulgence of March 15. 1672. And against the Vote of the Commons, of Feb. 15. 1662. we will oppose more than one Vote; even a Bill brought into the House of Lords from the Commons in Favour of Protestant Dissenters: After that his Majesty had cancelled his Declaration of Indulgence, which Bill had certainly passed, but for want of Time; the Parliament being prorogued till October 27. 1673, before it passed the Lords, as it certainly would have done; the Bishops then joining with the Temporal Lords, and were willing to take away the Assent and Consent, and Renunciation of the Covenant.
Now against this Reserve, we are not afraid to come out with as great an Authority as he argues under; and we think, we have the better, because it is a later, and the fruit of twelve Years Experience. See the King's Declaration of Indulgence of March 15. 1672. And against the Vote of the Commons, of Feb. 15. 1662. we will oppose more than one Vote; even a Bill brought into the House of Lords from the Commons in Favour of Protestant Dissenters: After that his Majesty had cancelled his Declaration of Indulgence, which Bill had certainly passed, but for want of Time; the Parliament being prorogued till October 27. 1673, before it passed the Lords, as it certainly would have done; the Bishops then joyning with the Temporal Lords, and were willing to take away the Assent and Consent, and Renunciation of the Covenant.