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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.
A moderate Man is subject to Commotions, but he allays them soonest, and keeps an Eye and a Guard upon them.
Thus you have seen his Inside, his Head, Heart, and Affections, the inward Goodness of the best Man. Now observe the Moderation of,
2dly; His Sensitive Appetites.
God's Word revealing to him a Kingdom, a Treasure, a Crown in the World to come; and God's Spirit convincing him of that Glory and Blessedness, and drawing his Heart to Things above; the ⟨p. 64⟩same Word convincing him of the Vanity, Temptations, and Danger of the World; and his own Judgment and Experience weighing with him, he grows, as his Faith and Love to God and Heaven grows, most indifferent, cool, and slack, or in one Word, moderate toward the Things that are in the World.