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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.
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.
Grindalizer is the Badge and Cognizance, but what is the Coat? He makes us a Coat of very Rags, and the Sleeves and parts of it do not hang together by any coherent Pin or Point; it is a loose Coat, made ⟨p. 9⟩