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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.
And before, we are told of Offences in private, and before the Church be told of us, to tell of us to the Magistrate and to the World, is not regular nor friendly. To declaim against us for Moderation; truly so called, would be to commend us to the World and to good Men. But then that we may first die and stink before we come to be formally prosecuted, that we may be suspected and then hated, and then used we know not how (nor we know not why) we are painted in the Colours of the fowlest Fellow in the Dock. But we are sure this Paint will not endure the Fire; not this Oratory to be taken for Evidence, before a just Tribunal: Neither can we see such Propensity in so many Men to fall in love with Moderation, that there is some need to paint her as an odious Creature, to take them off. The Charge against Moderate Men, consists of many Articles, to all which we make a short Defence.
And before, we are told of Offences in private, and before the Church be told of us, to tell of us to the Magistrate and to the World, is not regular nor friendly. To declaim against us for Moderation; truly so called, would be to commend us to the World and to good Men. But then that we may first dy and stink before we come to be formally prosecuted, that we may be suspected and then hated, and then used we know not how (nor we know not why) we are painted in the Colours of the fowlest Fellow in the Dock. But we are sure this Paint will not endure the Fire; not this Oratory to be taken for Evidence, before a just Tribunal: Neither can we see such Propensity in so many Men to fall in love with Moderation, that there is some need to paint her as an odious Creature, to take them off. The Charge against Moderate Men, consists of many Articles, to all which we make a short Defence.
1. We have given Legal Security to our Governors in Church and State.
1. We have given Legal Security to our Governours in Church and State.