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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.
(1.) He grows moderate in his Desires and Pursuits, looking most to his Duty, and the right Use of the Things of this World.
(2.) Moderate in using and enjoying them.
(3.) Moderate in bearing the Crosses, Disappointments, and Losses of them.
And hence he commends himself to us as a temperate, contented, patient Man.
3dly, and lastly; He is the best Man, lives the best Life, and leads the best Conversation. The Inside being made clean, the Outside will not be endured to be unseemly; the Tree being made good, the Fruit is good.