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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.
But it is not necessary so great a Champion should maintain this Cause; for Moderation is qualified with Wisdom, Fortitude, and Patience to defend it self, even silent; and a Man of a lower Size is tall enough to look the Opposers in the Face; and to put them to prove their Accusations, is to put them to silence.
Yet that we may not pay them in their own kind, and shoot in their Bow, they do not shoot at Moderation, but pelt the moderate Men; they do not expose the Virtue, but the Men that are denominated from it.
Yet that we may not pay them in their own kind, and shoot in their Bow, they do not shoot at Moderation, but pelt the moderate Men; they do not expose the Vertue, but the Men that are denominated from it.
If you would see the Effigies which they hang, take a Copy of it out of some Pieces of Tapestry, and Oratorical Painting, and the Picture is a Chimaera, a Draught of mere Invention and Fancy. Is there such a Man in the Church? If there be, tire him with Apparitors, and make some real Being of him, something existent, either a Conformist, or a Nonconformist.
If you would see the Effigies which they hang, take a Copy of it out of some Pieces of Tapestry, and Oratorical Painting, and the Picture is a Chimaera, a Draught of meer Invention and Fancy. Is there such a Man in the Church? If there be, tire him with Apparitors, and make some real Being of him, something existent, either a Conformist, or a Nonconformist.