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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. There is another pernicious Party, of ambiguous Men, that are listed under our Banner, and receive the Churches Pay, but serve our dangerous Enemy, the Fanatic and Dissenter. These are they that will betray the Church, that are making Terms for themselves, and will, by their Compliance with the Dissenter, bring in the Papist, which might despair of entering in, if these two did not open him the Door. These are pointed out, that the Rulers may know them, and cashier them, or not trust them, and by some stronger Test deliver us from them. You may know them by their halting Moderation, and many other Marks affixed upon them, to be seen by and by.
3. There is another pernicious Party, of ambiguous Men, that are listed under our Banner, and receive the Churches Pay, but serve our dangerous Enemy, the Fanatick and Dissenter. These are they that will betray the Church, that are making Terms for themselves, and will, by their Compliance with the Dissenter, bring in the Papist, which might despair of entring in, if these two did not open him the Door. These are pointed out, that the Rulers may know them, and cashier them, or not trust them, and by some stronger Test deliver us from them. You may know them by their halting Moderation, and many other Marks affix'd upon them, to be seen by and by.
It is too visible, that some Men can never be quiet as long as there is a moderate Man left in the Church. These very Men admire and commend the Moderation of the Church, and yet declaim against Moderation in them that conform to it, whether they be Clergy or Laity. And really, if Moderation were dressed up, and disguised upon the Stage, and hissed at, it were more excusable, for Men of little Virtue to represent it as a Vice, than to see it painted according to the Fancy of prejudiced Preachers, and hung out of the Pulpit, as an odious or a loathsome Monster; or by Head and Ears forced into a Discourse, and brought forth before the Magistrate, as a Cheat, or Underminer of the Government, to be watched, and severely inspected, as an Enemy in the Loyal Churchman's Habit.
It is too visible, that some Men can never be quiet as long as there is a moderate Man left in the Church. These very Men admire and commend the Moderation of the Church, and yet declaim against Moderation in them that conform to it, whether they be Clergy or Laity. And really, if Moderation were dress'd up, and disguised upon the Stage, and hiss'd at, it were more excusable, for Men of little Vertue to represent it as a Vice, than to see it painted according to the Fancy of prejudiced Preachers, and hung out of the Pulpit, as an odious or a loathsom Monster; or by Head and Ears forced into a Discourse, and brought forth before the Magistrate, as a Cheat, or Underminer of the Government, to be watched, and severely inspected, as an Enemy in the Loyal Churchman's Habit.