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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
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If moderate Men could not contain, they might anger Mr. Gould, and others, by showing their Hands and their Legs, some not having as much as one Leg for a Pulpit, &c. But I will not irritate, but wish we were all Followers of Christ, qui fecit quod docuit, as Cyprian speaks.
If moderate Men could not contain, they might anger Mr. Gould, and others, by shewing their Hands and their Legs, some not having as much as one Leg for a Pulpit, &c. But I will not irritate, but wish we were all Followers of Christ, qui fecit quod docuit, as Cyprian speaks.
There are many others that send about their Characters, to provoke the Magistrate to a Jealousy of their own Friends; and it is time to offer a Vindication, if it will be admitted. And that I may contain my self within some Bounds of Method, I will,
I. Vindicate the moderate Clergy and Laity, from the fanciful Aspersions cast upon them by some.
II. I will endeavour a true Character of a moderate Conformist.