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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 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. 1 Cor. 12.17, 24, 25. [Greek or Hebrew]; Uno quodam temperamento inter se conjunxit, adeoque conglutinavit: Dr. Slater in loc. All Christians are joined together by one Temperament, that there might be no Schism: that's God's design, to prevent Division, and casting out, or cutting off of Members, or any Carriage of Men of higher Gifts, to offend, and neglect the inferior and weak. And the words of the grave and excellent Musculus (in 1 ad Corrinth. c. 12. v. 25.), are worthy a recital. Significat ipsissimum esse Schisma Ecclesiae, quandi membrae illius ab hac sum mutuâ solicitudine aliena, quiquid tandem Verbis ac Ritibus prof• tiantur. For the Unity and Integrity of the Church (saith that excellent Man) doth not only consist in an outward Conformity of Religion and Ceremonies; but also, yea and more, in the Consent, Concord and Unity of the Mind of Spirit. Detur autem è tot millibus Ecclesia una, in quâ mutua ista Membrorum cura vigiat, & locum hoc genus Schismatis non habeat, quo planè Schismatici sunt Ecclesiarum Capita & Praesides, quorum pectora nulla inferiorum Membrorum curâ tanguntur. The very head of Schism, which divides it self into so many Channels, rises from Disaffection; and mutual Care and fellow-feeling of the Sufferings of any Member, is the Effect of this Temperament; and the Cure of Schism is effected by the Application and Exercise of Love, Care and Sympathy: And the Schism so plainly spoken of in 1 Cor. 12. might, one would think, come sometimes into the Consideration of Men who insist upon other Notions.
In a word, Moderation is the Ballance 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. 1 Cor. 12.17, 24, 25. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; Vno quodam temperamento inter se conjunxit, adeoque conglutinavit: Dr. Slater in loc. All Christians are joyned together by one Temperament, that there might be no Schism: that's God's design, to prevent Division, and casting out, or cutting off of Members, or any Carriage of Men of higher Gifts, to offend, and neglect the inferiour and weak. And the words of the grave and excellent Musculus (in 1 ad Corrinth. c. 12. v. 25.), are worthy a recital. Significat ipsissimum esse Schisma Ecclesiae, quandi membrae illius ab hac sum mutuâ solicitudine aliena, quiquid tandem Verbis ac Ritibus prof tiantur. For the Unity and Integrity of the Church (saith that excellent Man) doth not only consist in an outward Conformity of Religion and Ceremonies; but also, yea and more, in the Consent, Concord and Unity of the Mind of Spirit. Detur autem è tot millibus Ecclesia una, in quâ mutua ista Membrorum cura vigiat, & locum hoc genus Schismatis non habeat, quo planè Schismatici sunt Ecclesiarum Capita & Praesides, quorum pectora nulla inferiorum Membrorum curâ tanguntur. The very head of Schism, which divides it self into so many Channels, rises from Disaffection; and mutual Care and fellow-feeling of the Sufferings of any Member, is the Effect of this Temperament; and the Cure of Schism is effected by the Application and Exercise of Love, Care and Sympathy: And the Schism so plainly spoken of in