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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
Conclusion: The Conclusion, propounding Examples of Moderation.
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The Conclusion, propounding Examples of Moderation.
And now, having a few Pages left, I will fill them up with Examples, to prove, that the wisest Men, and best Christians that ever were in the World, have always been of this excellent Temper of Moderation. A Man might summon a Cloud of Witnesses, to set their Hands and Seals to the Poet's Medio tu•issimus ibis: And doth not Solomon tell the Meaning, when he saith, Turn not to the right-hand, nor to the left; remove thy Foot from Evil?
ANd now, having a few Pages left, I will fill them up with Examples, to prove, that the wisest Men, and best Christians that ever were in the World, have always been of this excellent Temper of Moderation. A Man might summon a Cloud of Witnesses, to set their Hands and Seals to the Poet's Medio tu•issimus ibis: And doth not Solomon tell the Meaning, when he saith, Turn not to the right-hand, nor to the left; remove thy Foot from Evil?
The incomparable Lord Bacon, of whom the wise King James used to say, That he knew the Method of doing Things suavibus modis, after a mild and gentle manner. And another Pen gives him this Character: That he had the clearest Prospect of Things of any Man in his Age, being moderate in his Inclination, peaceable in his Mind, and yielding in his Temper. His Religion was rational and ⟨p. 77⟩sober, his Wit acute, his Memory faithful, his Judgment penetrating, his Spirits public; obliging to his Friend, and civil to his Enemy; constant at public Prayers, and frequent at Sermons and Sacraments. And yet he tells the Duke of Buckingham, That the true Protestant Religion is seated in the Golden Mean, the Enemies to her are the Extremes on either hand: Herein agreeing with the Royal Martyr, That the true Religion established in the Church of England, keeps the middle way, between the Pomp of Superstitious Tyranny, and the Meanness of Fantastic Anarchy.