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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.
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.
(1.) In Matters of Faith, necessary to be believed to eternal Life, there is no place for Moderation, in the common sense of Moderation; for we must earnestly contend for the Faith which was once delivered to the Saints.
(1.) In Matters of Faith, necessary to be believed to eternal Life, there is no place for Moderation, in the common sence of Moderation; for we must earnestly contend for the Faith which was once delivered to the Saints.
A moderate Man, taught of God, is zealous in all Things which he ought to hold fast; and this Zeal in its highest strain, and advanced, is but moderated and directed according to the everlasting Importance of those precious and necessary Things.