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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.
Secondly; He is the wisest, best, and happiest Man, that is most moderate: The wisest, because best; the best, because wisest; and the happiest, because best and wisest.
1. He is the wisest Man; for he is endued with the highest and divine Wisdom, that which comes from above, from whence he is also born: The Wisdom that is from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, (or moderate, the very same Word as in the Text) and easy to be entreated, full of Mercy and good Fruit, without Partiality, and without Hypocrisy. Jam. 3.17.
2. He takes the sure way to be wise: for, 1. He goes for it where it is to be had, and by such means as the Giver of Wisdom doth direct him: If any Man lack Wisdom, let him ask it of God. He asketh, and he receiveth. 2. He ceaseth to be wise in his own Conceit, and becomes a Fool that he may wise. 3. Having obtained Wisdom, he considers his latter End, his highest and chiefest End and Good, and all Means tending to it.