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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.
They have shot through the Triple-Crown, pulled out his Eye, disarmed him of his two Swords, spoiled him of his Keys and Pontificals; in a word, as good as killed him, and buried him with White-bread, and the Popish Plot: Yet from an old Antipathy against him, we make an historical Remembrance of him; and that which remains of him alive, is confined to his own Territories, or so obnoxious to the Penalties of the Law, that he will keep away for his own Safety, or use a Temper, out of a sense of his Impotence and Interest. He cannot do us a Mischief, with any safety to himself.
They have shot through the Triple-Crown, pull'd out his Eye, disarmed him of his two Swords, spoil'd him of his Keys and Pontificals; in a word, as good as killed him, and buried him with White-bread, and the Popish Plot: Yet from an old Antipathy against him, we make an historical Remembrance of him; and that which remains of him alive, is confin'd to his own Territories, or so obnoxious to the Penalties of the Law, that he will keep away for his own Safety, or use a Temper, out of a sense of his Impotence and Interest. He cannot do us a Mischief, with any safety to himself.
2. The Danger is greatest from the Dissenter: Because, (1.) An Enemy in our own Bowels. (2.) By a long Indulgence grown numerous and head-strong. (3.) By subtle Insinuations got the repute to ⟨p. 2⟩be a Protestant. (4.) Hath so great a share in the Vessel of Trade, that he can remove the Mart where almost he pleaseth: And by this 'tis thought necessary to forbear him, lest we lose by breaking him; and this makes him proud and insolent, until he be grown intolerable, because great and dangerous. The Schism is pernicious to the Church, and the Republican Principle to the Government. The Shower of the barbed Arrows, with the Thunderbolts, are poured upon them; there is no relaxation of the Bow, unless they submit, or leave a Church to which they cannot conform, to them that can, to enjoy her own Peace and Order.
2. The Danger is greatest from the Dissenter: Because, (1.) An Enemy in our own Bowels. (2.) By a long Indulgence grown numerous and head-strong. (3.) By subtil Insinuations got the repute to