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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.
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.
A Moderation of Elements and Humours makes the best Constitution of Bodies; Grace and Vertue 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 shewing of our Moderation.
Christ, to whom all things are committed of the Father, rules his Church by it, and all the Members of it are to show it to all Men; to them that are without, and to them that are within. This is like the Stiffness and Flexibleness of the Nerves and Arteries; the soft and smooth Ends of the Parts and Members of the Body, where they join and meet.
Christ, to whom all things are committed of the Father, rules his Church by it, and all the Members of it are to shew it to all Men; to them that are without, and to them that are within. This is like the Stifness and Flexibleness of the Nerves and Arteries; the soft and smooth Ends of the Parts and Members of the Body, where they joyn and meet.
In a word, Moderation is the Balance of the Ship, and the Cement of the Building, the just Proportion of the Mystical Body. If the whole Body were an Eye, where were the Hearing? If the whole were Hearing, where the Smelling? &c. But God hath so tempered the Body together that there should be no Schism in the Body.