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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.
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⟩up of Pieces of Wit and Nonsense, some taken from under the Stall, some from the Dunghill. He sets us out by many rare Qualities, which sit about us as exactly, as if thrown on us with a Fork. I hope a moderate Man may be moderately merry, and therefore there being more of spiteful Raillery, than Logic or Coherence, in the Description of Grindalizers, I'll conform a while to the humour of the Man, and talk a little idly and loosely too; and I entreat the Reader to be merry with us, and lay aside the Sourness of an Artist in Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric.
Grindalizer is the Badg 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⟩up of Pieces of Wit and Nonsence, some taken from under the Stall, some from the Dunghill. He sets us out by many rare Qualities, which sit about us as exactly, as if thrown on us with a Fork. I hope a moderate Man may be moderately merry, and therefore there being more of spiteful Raillery, than Logick or Coherence, in the Description of Grindalizers, I'll conform a while to the humor of the Man, and talk a little idly and loosly too; and I entreat the Reader to be merry with us, and lay aside the Sourness of an Artist in Grammar, Logick, Rhetorick.