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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.
SECT. VII.
If there be any Virtue, if any Praise, we should study, think upon, acquire and exercise Moderation. I shall not discuss whether Moderation be a single Virtue, or a Cluster of Virtues? whether it be a Grace adorning the Christian Court? or, rather a Queen that governs and employs other Graces in their several Services and Offices? We are sure that Mankind was first spared, and afterwards restored, and ever since governed by Divine Moderation. Man's first Constitution was tempered by Moderation: There was an Union, or a Combination of Heaven and Earth, of Spirit and Body, to make him up complete and perfect Man. An excellent happy Creature! Visible between the Creator and other Creatures in a middle state of Freedom ⟨p. 57⟩and Obedience to his Maker, and of Dominion over other Creatures, lower than Angels in respect of his Earthly Extraction, equal to Angels in respect of Holiness, above Angels, because of his Dominion, and Authority to stamp what Name he pleased upon the Creatures. And once more see the Moderation of the disposal: Adam had the Name and subordinate Power, but God retained the absolute Sovereignty. God had the Right to bestow them, Adam had the use of them, because he had the need, and was to have the Comfort of them.
If there be any Vertue, if any Praise, we should study, think upon, acquire and exercise Moderation. I shall not discuss whether Moderation be a single Vertue, or a Cluster of Vertues? whether it be a Grace adorning the Christian Court? or, rather a Queen that governs and imploys other Graces in their several Services and Offices? We are sure that Mankind was first spared, and afterwards restored, and ever since governed by Divine Moderation. Man's first Constitution was tempered by Moderation: There was an Union, or a Combination of Heaven and Earth, of Spirit and Body, to make him up compleat and perfect Man. An excellent happy Creature! Visible between the Creator and other Creatures in a middle state of Freedom ⟨p. 57⟩and Obedience to his Maker, and of Dominion over other Creatures, lower than Angels in respect of his Earthly Extraction, equal to Angels in respect of Holiness, above Angels, because of his Dominion, and Authority to stamp what Name he pleased upon the Creatures. And once more see the Moderation of the disposal: Adam had the Name and subordinate Power, but God retained the absolute Soveraignty. God had the Right to bestow them, Adam had the use of them, because he had the need, and was to have the Comfort of them.