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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…
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.
The third Testimony is of the Right-Reverend Bishop of Norwich, Dr. Sperrow, in his Rationale of the Common-Prayer, pag. 239. And because this Finder of new Conventicles doth wish or exhort his Reader to mark the Reason of this famous Triumvirate, and then read the second Service hereafter in the Desk if you can; I will take the more notice of the Rationale. And first, the Rationale is neither the Law, nor a legal authorised Expositor of the Law. And to do the Rationale Right and Respect, this Author, or the Printer, hath made the Passage to be neither Sense nor Reason. The Words of the Rationale ⟨p. 74⟩are: Private and solitary Communions of the Priest alone, she (the Church) allows not; and therefore when other cannot be had, she appoint's only so much of the Service, as relates not of necessity to a present (this Writer hath it to a private) Communion, and that to be said at the Holy Table, and upon good Reason, the Church thereby keeping as it were be• Ground, visibly minding us of what she desires and labours towards, our more frequent Access to the Holy Table: And in the mean while, that part of the Service which she useth, may perhaps more fully be called the Second Service.
The third Testimony is of the Right-Reverend Bishop of Norwich, Dr. Sperrow, in his Rationale of the Common-Prayer, pag. 239. And because this Finder of new Conventicles doth wish or exhort his Reader to mark the Reason of this famous Triumvirate, and then read the second Service hereafter in the Desk if you can; I will take the more notice of the Rationale. And first, the Rationale is neither the Law, nor a legal authorised Expositor of the Law. And to do the Rationale Right and Respect, this Author, or the Printer, hath made the Passage to be neither Sence nor Reason. The Words of the Rationale ⟨p. 74⟩are: Private and solitary Communions of the Priest alone, she (the Church) allows not; and therefore when other cannot be had, she appoint's only so much of the Service, as relates not of necessity to a present (this Writer hath it to a private) Communion, and that to be said at the Holy Table, and upon good Reason, the Church thereby keeping as it were be• Ground, visibly minding us of what she desires and labours towards, our more frequent Access to the Holy Table: And in the mean while, that part of the Service which she useth, may perhaps more fuly be called the Second Service.