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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.
Let us every Man to his Tents, O Israel, with resolution and courage in gain-saying ⟨p. 8⟩saying Seducers, in daring to look Faction in the face, and opposing it, tho never so insolent and domineering; according to the advice of Mr. Calvin to Bucer, that he should take care to avoid moderate Counsels in Matters of Religion, intimating the intense Zeal that is required in Ministers, in order to the Interest and Honour of the Church: remembering that of the Wise Man, Eccles. 2.13. Woe unto them that have a fearful Heart, and to the faint Hands, and to the Sinner that goeth two manner of ways.
Let us every Man to his Tents, O Israel, with resolution and courage in gain-saying ⟨p. 8⟩saying Seducers, in daring to look Faction in the face, and opposing it, tho never so insolent and domineering; according to the advice of Mr. Calvin to Bucer, that he should take care to avoid moderate Counsels in Matters of Religion, intimating the intense Zeal that is required in Ministers, in order to the Interest and Honour of the Church: remembring that of the Wise Man, Eccles. 2.13. Wo unto them that have a fearful Heart, and to the faint Hands, and to the Sinner that goeth two manner of ways.
Pag. 51. That the Grindallizers and Half-Conformists threaten little less to the danger and dishonour of the Church, than the open and profest Nonconformists; that their great familiarity and intimacy with, their complying and conniving at, and (instead of zealous, prudent opposition) their halting and sneaking to them, is that which cannot but work in People a love and liking to their Persons, and their Ways; and so by their Treachery within the Pale, like Moles, undermine the Foundation, when the other, like Wolves and Foxes, can but howl and foam without, the Mound and Fence of the Church being strong enough against them. And that therefore the Eye of Government had need be watchful over these Half-Conformists, as well as over the professed Nonconformists.