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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…
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.
2. Pag. 7. He saith, It is only the Observation or Non-observation of all the Orders, Rites and Ceremonies (and none other) which are appointed in and by the Common-Prayer and Book of Canons, which gives it the Denomination of a Church or Conventicle. Now, if I forget not, Preaching and Teaching in any such Assembly as is described by the Act, makes a Conventicle, and the Preacher finable 20 l.
3. He saith, The Plea of Custom is not good in this case, because it is against a Positive Law. But we say, our Positive Statute-Law allows of the Custom of placing the Communion-Table; so the Rubric before the Communion, The Table at the Communion-time, &c. shall stand in the body of the Church or Chancel, where Morning and Evening Prayers are appointed to be said. A Custom is established by this Law: this Custom is as Ancient as the Reformation. See the Injunctions of Bishop Ridley, An. 1550. in the Collect. of Records in Dr. Burnet's History of the Reformation, p. 206.
3. He saith, The Plea of Custom is not good in this case, because it is against a Positive Law. But we say, our Positive Statute-Law allows of the Custom of placing the Communion-Table; so the Rubrick before the Communion, The Table at the Communion-time, &c. shall stand in the body of the Church or Chancel, where Morning and Evening Prayers are appointed to be said. A Custom is established by this Law: this Custom is as Antient as the Reformation. See the Injunctions of Bishop Ridley, An. 1550. in the Collect. of Records in Dr. Burnet's History of the Reformation, p. 206.
4. Pag. 9. Doth not the Book of Common-Prayer it self restrain all Diocesans from making any Order concerning any Doubt arising about the Use and Practice of any thing in the Book?