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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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Lastly; He objects: [Then shall follow the Sermon.] What only on Communion-Days? &c. and shows his respect for Sermons, calling the Sermon the Great Diana, and ironically and profanely, For the dear sake of that Unum Necessarium, that Magnum Oportet. Sir, did you declare at your Ordination, (if you be a Minister) that you trusted you were moved by the Holy-Ghost, and called to the Ministry? and now, when you plead so stiffly for a Rite, call a Sermon a Diana!
Lastly; He objects: [Then shall follow the Sermon.] What only on Communion-Days? &c. and shews his respect for Sermons, calling the Sermon the Great Diana, and ironically and profanely, For the dear sake of that Unum Necessarium, that Magnum Oportet. Sir, did you declare at your Ordination, (if you be a Minister) that you trusted you were moved by the Holy-Ghost, and called to the Ministry? and now, when you plead so stiffly for a Rite, call a Sermon a Diana!
But to answer your Argument, we say, That Rubric seems rather to direct when we shall go to the Sermon, than give us Authority for Preaching: We have other Authority to bear us out to make our Preaching Legal, than that Rubric; and therefore we have Sermons on other times besides when there is a Communion. Lastly, we say, some of the Rubrics belong to actual Communion, as this doth for going to the Altar, as you phrase it; other Rubrics direct, (when there is none) the Order of the Service.
But to answer your Argument, we say, That Rubrick seems rather to direct when we shall go to the Sermon, than give us Authority for Preaching: We have other Authority to bear us out to make our Preaching Legal, than that Rubrick; and therefore we have Sermons on other times besides when there is a Communion. Lastly, we say, some of the Rubricks belong to actual Communion, as this doth for going to the Altar, as you phrase it; other Rubricks direct, (when there is none) the Order of the Service.