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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
Appendix: An Appendix demonstrating that Parish-Churches are no Conventicles, particularly for re…
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An Appendix demonstrating that Parish-Churches are no Conventicles, particularly for reading the second Service in the Desk. In answer to a late Pamphlet, entitled, Parish-Churches turned into Conventicles, &c.
An Appendix demonstrating that Parish-Churches are no Conventicles, particularly for reading the second Service in the Desk. In answer to a late Pamphelt, entitled, Parish-Churches turned into Conventicles, &c.
IF the Title of this Epistle to all the Reverend Clergy of the Church of England were proved in the Epistle, that Parish-Churches turned into Conventicles, and Informers inform, and Magistrates proceed upon their Information, it would be a great Project to bring the Wealth of the Kingdom into the King's Exchequer, to make the Poor of our Parishes Farmers, and Freeholders at least, and the Informers Fellows to Peers, by the Moieties for so many Conventicles kept throughout the Kingdom, above twenty Years, in most of our Parish Churches. But we hope that Parish Churches, being neither any Man's House, nor Barn, nor Yard, nor Back-side, may not come within the Act against Conventicles. And except they deny Churches to be the Houses of God, they know not how to sue the Owner of them for 20 l. for the House. But if it should so happen, that this Notion should universally take, and gain Assent and make Converts, as he saith he hath made, pag. 21. and so Rectors and Vicars, because they have taken Possession, may be adjudged Owners of the Churches, by some who wish there might be some Law to undo us; we are persuaded that our Magistrates would not interpret the Act, as including Parish-Churches, seeing it speaks of a House, in which a Family doth inhabit; or, if it be in a House, Field or Place, where is no Family inhabiting; yet we suppose it is a House that hath been, or may be inhabited, or was built to be a Habitation; and we hope that the Parish Churches are presumed to be no Places for unlawful Assemblies, or Conventicles. And for some other Reasons it may be thought that the Author might have invented another Title for his Epistle: