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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.
This Moderation, Temper, or Government is internal and secret, or external; and that either public or private, according to the ⟨p. 60⟩Place and Condition of the Person, as his Occasions are of conversing with all kind of Men, in all manner of Conversation, whether public or private, religious and civil. The Regulation of a Man's own self, is pre-required to the Regulation of his Conversation towards all Men.
This Moderation, Temper, or Government is internal and secret, or external; and that either publick or private, according to the ⟨p. 60⟩Place and Condition of the Person, as his Occasions are of conversing with all kind of Men, in all manner of Conversation, whether publick or private, religious and civil. The Regulation of a Man's own self, is pre-required to the Regulation of his Conversation towards all Men.
It cannot be expected that I should run out into a large Discourse upon this excellent Subject. We may, with great Profit, read the excellent Discourses of eminent Divines upon this Text, such as Mr. Perkins, Bishop Reynolds, Bishop Wilkins, Mr. Joseph Hill, in the Morning Exercises at Cripple-Gate, Serm. 16. And Mr. Evans, in his Sermon before my Lord Mayor, hath spoken upon some things very clearly and well.
That which remains of my Design (having wiped off the Aspersions, or if that be too hard a Word, and calls to mind some unhandsome Usage, having washed off the Colours that made the Moderate Man look with a dark and doubtful Countenance, unlike himself) is to represent him, if not exactly, yet in some of his noble and amicable Accomplishments. And that we may take him right, the Copy is to be taken from the Divine Hand, and Pencil of the Holy Ghost in Scripture; for we do not now look upon him, as in a State of Nature, and mere Morality; but of Christianity and under Grace. But if you looked upon him in the State of Morality, you would most admire him of all Men in that State; he is the fairest of Men, among Men crept out of Darkness, and the Pit of Corruption, into a Light adorned and beset with the most complete Suit of Moral Virtues.