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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
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.
Sect. I.
I. Having done with Mr. Gould, with little more than a Repetition, I will consider a Charge against us, as formed into a Party, under a venerable Nick-name of Grindalizers. This Name is imprinted on us by the Author of the Remarks upon the Growth of Nonconformity. I know not the Author, and can have no pique at him for any private Offence; I cannot conceal my Wishes of him, whoever he be; I had rather he should prove to be a Lay-Person than a Preacher, and a Papist than a Protestant. He may be taken for an Author of Reading and Credit, by such as cannot trace and detect him. He handleth those Weapons against our Dissenters, which the Papists thrust at the Protestants in the former Generation, and which the Leaders in our Militant Church have twisted and wreathed like Bulrushes. For instance, his Imputations upon Calvin and Beza, are the very same which Bishop Bilson doth vindicate, in his Answer to the Jesuit, (True Difference between Christian Subjection, and Antichristian Rebellion, part 3. p. 509.) and other of our Protestant Fathers. He produceth those very Stories against the Nonconformists, which Parsons the Jesuit, Sylvester, Petra sancta, Barclay, Paraenesis ad Scotos, lib. 1. c. 3. Philanax Anglicus, and that cheating Author, called, The Image of both Churches, dedicated to Charles the First, when Prince of Wales, printed at Tournai, 1623, written (as 'tis said) by Pateson. While he exposeth the Nonconformist to open Shame, he brings upon the Stage what, and the very same Things, that the Papists fathered upon the Protestants, and Reformed Churches; and they are cleared of those Forgeries by our eminent Writers: And so the Case of the Nonconformists so far is vindicated, by Bishop Bilson, Morton's Justification of the Protestants from the Charge of Rebellion; in his Full Satisfaction concerning a double Romish Iniquity; by Dr. Andr. Rivet; Jesuit a vapulans; and Du-Moulin. Who suffers most by these Slanders, a Party of Dissenting Protestants, or the Protestant Reformed Churches? Now whether this Work be more proper for a Papist, or a Protestant, not to say a Minister of the Church of England, as some say the Author is, let the Reader judg by his own Words, from pag. 14, to 17.