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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.
3. We cannot but esteem it an unvaluable Mercy, that the Christian Protestant Religion is established by a Temporal Law.
3. We cannot but esteem it an unvaluable Mercy, that the Christian Protestant Religon is established by a Temporal Law.
4. It is meet that we submit to some Test, by which our Governors that protect Religion, may have some reasonable confidence that we will be true to it; and according to the Nature and Use of the Things required, we make a difference between one and another of them; and with a construction of Charity, which thinketh no Evil, we will take the Things in the most favourable sense.
4. It is meet that we submit to some Test, by which our Governors that protect Religion, may have some reasonable confidence that we will be true to it; and according to the Nature and Use of the Things required, we make a difference between one and another of them; and with a construction of Charity, which thinketh no Evil, we will take the Things in the most favourable sence.
5. We must labour as much as possibly we can to spread, diffuse, and sow the Word of Grace, that true Christianity, its Truth, Faith, Power, and Savour may become National; that every Corner of the Land may be filled with the Knowledge of the Lord.
5. We must labour as much as possibly we can to spread, diffuse, and sow the Word of Grace, that true Christianity, its Truth, Faith, Power, and Savour may become National; that every Corner of the Land may be filled with the Knowledg of the Lord.