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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.
According to this admirable Temperament and Moderation, making such a Connection between the Superior and Inferior, the stronger and weaker Members of this Body, hath our Saviour, the Head and Law-giver, made those general Laws for the perpetual Government of his Church: And in the first Council of the Apostles and Elders, they determined that Controversy and Debate with great ⟨p. 59⟩Tenderness and Respect to all the Members of the Church, not laying any other Yoke upon the Necks of the Disciples, than things necessary, Acts 15. And the same Mind which was in Christ Jesus and his Apostles, should be in all Christians, as to this very Grace of Moderation, and Duty of showing it to all Men. And because it is a Grace which we cannot be without, and having attained it, must not conceal but show it, I will detain you a little, while we look into the Text where it is enjoined us, and wherein the Glory of Christ is much concerned and seen. In the Text Philip. 4.5. the word in the Original [Greek or Hebrew], cannot be rendered by one word; one word cannot hold its Signification, say some learned Men: It is rendered mitis, aequus, facilis, mansuetus, tennis laudabilis, sedatus, moratus frugi, modestus, civilis, prelus, in Constantine's Lexicon. By Christian Expositors it is rendered, Modestia, Moderatio, Lenitas, Aequitas, Humanitas, Candour, Probitas, Meekness, Clemency; in our English Bibles, it is englished Clemency, Acts 24.4. Genteel, 1 Pet. 2.18. Gentleness, Tit. 3.2. Jam. 3.37. 2 Cor. 10.1. Patient, 1 Tim. 3.3.
According to this admirable Temperament and Moderation, making such a Connexion between the Superiour and Inferiour, the stronger and weaker Members of this Body, hath our Saviour, the Head and Law-giver, made those general Laws for the perpetual Government of his Church: And in the first Councel of the Apostles and Elders, they determined that Controversy and Debate with great