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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. Because they are in themselves Matters of small moment, some of them being but Hay and Stubble, in comparison of the Foundation, or of Gold and Silver; but Mint and Anise, in comparison of the weightier Matters of the Law.
3. Because they are in themselves Matters of small moment, some of them being but Hay and Stubble, in comparison of the Foundation, or of Gold and Silver; but Mint and Annise, in comparison of the weightier Matters of the Law.
4. Because they are Matters of Christian Liberty.
5. Because they are Matters that occasion too much Scandal; they who do them, offend the Weak that scruple them; and they who omit or refuse them, offend them that require them. And suppose that some that are now weak, may out-grow the weakness of Understanding and Judgment, yet there is a Succession of weak Ones, following one another, of Babes that have need of Milk; and by consequence there must be a continual Exercise of Moderation and Condescension.