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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.
7. If there were not Parochial Ministers and Ministrations, what would become of vast Numbers of precious Souls, even the far greater Number of Souls in the Kingdom?
That this Consideration may be the more obvious and apparent, and convincing upon their Minds who differ from us, I will spread it abroad, and lay it open in some Particulars.
(1.) The far greater Number of the Nation are (I think) baptized; they are baptized into Christ, entered and admitted into Covenant with God by Baptism, and these are to be instructed in the Duties of a People in Covenant, and trained up into Meetness for the Privileges of that Covenant-State. The placing of Ministers fitted for this Work, to take care of the Education of Souls in the Christian Faith, and Way of the Lord, is as necessary, as the placing and fixing of School-Masters in particular Schools. And how the Disciples of Christ can be bred and brought up in a better, or so likely a way, is not obvious to our Understandings.
(1.) The far greater Number of the Nation are (I think) baptized; they are baptized into Christ, entred and admitted into Covenant with God by Baptism, and these are to be instructed in the Duties of a People in Covenant, and trained up into Meetness for the Privileges of that Covenant-State. The placing of Ministers fitted for this Work, to take care of the Education of Souls in the Christian Faith, and Way of the Lord, is as necessary, as the placing and fixing of School-Masters in particular Schools. And how the Disciples of Christ can be bred and brought up in a better, or so likely a way, is not obvious to our Understandings.