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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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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.
You bring up a Rear of Authorities, which might have as decently been placed in the Head of Reasonings; but we know an inartificial Argument à Testimonio, is not so forcible as an artificial. But we know no Use of Testimonies and Names without Reason, except it be to think to deceive such easy and kind Sirs, as you call us. But to the chief of them I say:
1. The Presbyterians, in their Reply to the Bishops, in the Grand Debate, tell the Bishops, Moreover there is no Rubric requiring this Service at the Table, when there is no Communion, pag. 45. And so they were as blind as we.
1. The Presbyterians, in their Reply to the Bishops, in the Grand Debate, tell the Bishops, Moreover there is no Rubrick requiring this Service at the Table, when there is no Communion, pag. 45. And so they were as blind as we.