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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.
3. He advanceth in his Wisdom, 1. By Observation and Imitation of the only wise God, and Christ, who is the Wisdom and Power of God. There is a likeness in his renewed Nature of the Properties and communicable Attributes of God: And as God doth manifest the Glory of his Attributes in the Government of the World, especially his Church and peculiar People; so he is a Follower or an Imitator of God, Ephes. 5.1. And he never errs, but when he deviates from his Example. 2. He walks by a Law, which maketh wise the Simple. 3. As God is his End, and the Law directs him to it, so he keeps his End in his Eye.
II. He is the best Man: for although he is defective, and often out of Order, yet he hath,
II. He is the best Man: for altho he is defective, and often out of Order, yet he hath,
First; The best-tempered Soul of any Man. He hath the best Soul; for,
First; The best-temper'd Soul of any Man. He hath the best Soul; for,