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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.
In this State Goodness and Forbearance did first forbear him: God stays till the Cool of the day before fearful Adam heard his Voice, that he might have time to study if he could find a Remedy, or find some Shift, or lye down at the Feet of Mercy, which was not promised to him before. Infinite Mercy did interpose between Holiness and Justice, and the inexcusable Offender, whose Excuse made his Case the fouler.
What course did God take to save him? He went a middle way by a Mediator, God and Man. Grace shall save the Sinner, and Righteousness lose nothing thereby: The Law broken shall be perfectly fulfilled; the Curse shall be born, and taken away by him that bare it.
Every Man that is saved and called, is put into a middle State of Grace in this Life; he is advanced from a Slavery to a Sonship, but a Son under Age. Now are we the Sons of God, it doth not yet appear what we shall be.
And ever since Sin made the great and lamentable Alteration in the World, by bringing in Death among us; God hath governed it by a glorious perfectly Divine Moderation. He governs, commands and judgeth by a Law that is holy, just and good, and so his Ways are equal.