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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.
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.
They are the best and happiest Men in the World, both in themselves and to others, that are renewed after his Image, and act according to his Laws in imitation of him; and they are they who are the most moderate, that govern themselves and govern others, or are governed by the Rules of Moderation.
A Moderation of Elements and Humours makes the best Constitution of Bodies; Grace and Virtue gives the best Temper of Soul, which keeps the mean between the Excess and Defect; and in the State of ⟨p. 58⟩Grace the Exercise of Grace is the showing of our Moderation.