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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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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.
The second Authority produced, is of great Arch-bishop Laud, in his Speech in Star-Chamber; I'll quote the Page for him, Pag. 41. Indeed that great Man clears himself from the Eleventh Innovation, which was reading the second Service at the Communion-Table or Altar, by leaving the Matter very dark and doubtful. To this first I can truly say, that since my own Memory this was in use in very many Places. 1. He speaks of what was in the Compass of his own Memory. 2. What was in use in very many Places, in which he had been; and so he speaks of what he saw, and therefore sell within his own Memory: how doth this prove it was no Innovation? If it was customary in many Places, it was a Custom that had no Force in many, if not most Places, in which it was not in use. 3. The Arch-bishop confirms this by the Rubrics, which I have recited before, and takes out of the last Rubric before the Communion, this part of the Rubric only: The Priest standing at the North-side of the Holy Table, shall say the Lord's Prayer, with that which follows; leaving out that other part of the Rubric, The Table at the Communion-time, having a fair white Linen Cloth upon it; which shows, that that Rubric doth only refer to the Communion-Time: whence he infers, the second Service is to be read at the Communion-Table; an Inference that no Man, that regards not his Grace above Truth and Reason, would ever yield to.