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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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Pag. 19. saith he, And now it remains that I should produce some unquestionable Authorities to back my Reasons, that it may appear to all unbiased Persons, that the Judgment of all the great Worthies of our Church, who have either occasionally, or on set purpose treated of this Matter, is unanimous.
Pag. 19. saith he, And now it remains that I should produce some unquestionable Authorities to back my Reasons, that it may appear to all unbiassed Persons, that the Judgment of all the great Worthies of our Church, who have either occasionally, or on set purpose treated of this Matter, is unanimous.
One would have expected to have seen an Army of Worthies, and they all great Worthies, to have enforced his Reasons; but when we come to look upon them, they are but seven in all; and how ominous is it, that a perfect Number of Seven should be found to perfect his Victory!
The first of these is the most judicious Hooker; nay, if most judicious, he might have served alone; and what saith he? Book 5. §. 30. That the Prayers being devised at first for the Communion, are, when there is no Communion, at the Table of the Lord for that Cause also commonly read. All he saith is, that they are commonly read; but whether in few Places, or many Places they are commonly read, he doth not say, and doth not name any one Place in either College or Hall, Cathedral Church, or Chapel, in which the Communion-Service was always read. And so many Things are done commonly, for which there is no Rubric.
The first of these is the most judicious Hooker; nay, if most judicious, he might have served alone; and what saith he? Book 5. §. 30. That the Prayers being devised at first for the Communion, are, when there is no Communion, at the Table of the Lord for that Cause also commonly read. All he saith is, that they are commonly read; but whether in few Places, or many Places they are commonly read, he doth not say, and doth not name any one Place in either College or Hall, Cathedral Church, or Chappel, in which the Communion-Service was always read. And so many Things are done commonly, for which there is no Rubrick.