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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. He walks equitably. He is ready to receive according to the same Measure he distributes: Whatsoever ye would that Men should do to you, do ye even the same to them. And this hath respect to all sorts of Men. He gives to all their due; to Superiors, Honour, Tribute, and Obedience. The Moderate Man is not turbulent to the Government, but to his power supports it, and doth not shake it. If Controversies arise about his Civil Rights; 1. If the Things be sufferable, he suffers Wrong; if not, 2. He seeks then by just Practices to attain Righteousness. 3. He dares not revenge; for that is to be unjust to God, who saith, Vengeance is mine. If in Religious Matters: If about the Foundations and Vitals, he is tenacious of an Iota, zealous and resolved; but useth soft Words and hard Arguments, as holy Mr. Dod said, aiming to recover Truth, and not to revile Persons. If about Things merely Accidental and Ceremonial,
3. He walks equitably. He is ready to receive according to the same Measure he distributes: Whatsoever ye would that Men should do to you, do ye even the same to them. And this hath respect to all sorts of Men. He gives to all their due; to Superiors, Honour, Tribute, and Obedience. The Moderate Man is not turbulent to the Government, but to his power supports it, and doth not shake it. If Controversies arise about his Civil Rights; 1. If the Things be sufferable, he suffers Wrong; if not, 2. He seeks then by just Practices to attain Righteousness. 3. He dares not revenge; for that is to be unjust to God, who saith, Vengeance is mine. If in Religious Matters: If about the Foundations and Vitals, he is tenacious of an Iota, zealous and resolved; but useth soft Words and hard Arguments, as holy Mr. Dod said, aiming to recover Truth, and not to revile Persons. If about Things meerly Accidental and Ceremonial,
1. He thinks, as our Reformers thought, that Christ's Gospel is not a Ceremonial Law; but it is a Religion to serve God, not in the Bondage of the Figure or Shadow, but in the Freedom of the Spirit. Of Ceremonies, why some be abolished, &c.