A70766:335
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.
If all will not do, he brings upon us a Reason, which hath convinced and converted the Obstinate, pag. 21. Let us search all the Forms of Prayer upon special Occasions, since the King's happy Restoration, or since the Blessed Reformation, and we shall find, even when there is no Communion intended, that it is said expressly, The Priest shall stand at the North-side of the Table.
If all will not do, he brings upon us a Reason, which hath convinced and converted the Obstinate, pag. 21. Let us search all the Forms of Prayer upon special Occasions, since the King's happy Restoration, or since the Blessed Reformation, and we shall find, even when there is no Communion intended, that it is said expresly, The Priest shall stand at the North-side of the Table.
1. To this I answer: Grant it to be in all; are those Forms and Rubrics enjoined by Act of Parliament? If not, they are not a Law, I question not at all his Majesty's Power to appoint Fasts and Thanksgivings; ⟨p. 75⟩but nothing is to us a Law, but what is by Act of Parliament. And I believe his Majesty never gave him encouragement to say, as he doth, pag. 13. ☞ That the Determination of his Majesty's Will and Pleasure is as binding to him, as any Act of Parliament since the Conquest.
1. To this I answer: Grant it to be in all; are those Forms and Rubricks enjoined by Act of Parliament? If not, they are not a Law, I question not at all his Majesty's Power to appoint Fasts and Thanksgivings; ⟨p. 75⟩but nothing is to us a Law, but what is by Act of Parliament. And I believe his Majesty never gave him encouragement to say, as he doth, pag. 13. ☞ That the Determination of his Majesty's Will and Pleasure is as binding to him, as any Act of Parliament since the Conquest.