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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.
(2.) He apprehending, 1. Things of a contrary Nature, as good and evil; 2. Things good, but in differing degrees; 3. Things of an indifferent Nature, capable of being good or evil, according as they are used; he discerns between Things and Things.
(3.) By Dijudication, or an Act of Judgment, he separates Things evil, to be rejected; Things good, to be embraced; Things indifferent, to be used or let alone, according to Use, End, and Circumstances.
And now we may call a moderate Man, an understanding, discerning, judicious Man.
He is judicious, and hath three sorts of Things before him: 1. Matters of Faith. 2. Matters of Opinion. 3. Matters of Practice.