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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.
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.
We moderate Conformists come, in the second place, as faulty in contributing to the Growth of Nonconformity. But who went before us in a far greater Guilt? Who but Archbishop Grindal, Queen Elizabeth, King James, yea, King Charles the First? saying, That martyred King did merely comply himself into nothing, by his Toleration and Indulgences towards that Party, pag. 8. And goes on to show, that Indulgence and Toleration gave growth to Nonconformity; and prescribed Means to pluck it up again, &c. And then, A second way of adding to its Growth, is Grindalizing.
We moderate Conformists come, in the second place, as faulty in contributing to the Growth of Nonconformity. But who went before us in a far greater Guilt? Who but Archbishop Grindal, Queen Elizabeth, King James, yea, King Charles the First? saying, That martyred King did meerly comply himself into nothing, by his Toleration and Indulgences towards that Party, pag. 8. And goes on to shew, that Indulgence and Toleration gave growth to Nonconformity; and prescribed Means to pluck it up again, &c. And then, A second way of adding to its Growth, is Grindalizing.
Seeing the Gentleman hath set his Marking-Iron upon us, we have cause to thank him for an Honour and Dignity bestowed on us against his Will. Grindal was a most Reverend Arch-bishop, and I will not be ashamed to wear the Letters of his Name upon my Coat, tho my Coat were made of Silk; and I hope it would be not the less Canonical, I am sure not the less holy, for Grindal's Name. But whether this be more to that excellent Man's Dishonour, or to our Honour, was not so well considered of by the Imposer of it.