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…

If he had called us by another Name, and not by a Name of Sanctity and Reverence, as the Name of Grindal is, I had not been so moved to tell him, this is like that Inhumanity of the Papists, to rake into the Ashes of Venerable Grindal, and worse, and make Dirt of his Ashes, to bespatter us with his Memory, and to shovel up the Dirt of the filthy Gnostics, called Borboritae from their Filthiness, upon the Grave of that holy Man, and upon our Holy Profession. If this Dirt were like to stick, I would wipe it off. I pass it over. But what a monstrous Fancy hath the Man! A Half-Conformist is described by his Inside, as having two Souls; so the Gnostics held that Man had: Secondly, by his Eyes, looking two manner of ways: Thirdly, by his Legs, bending like the Haven of Crete, to two contrary Quarters of the World. This great Wit, not having Comparisons at hand, travels a great way to fetch one, and talks like a Man of Crete, (who are always Liars, as said their own Poet.) But this is but an imperfect Piece, for all his pains. Let us borrow Hands and Legs from Mr. Gould, and then take this Half-Conformist within and without, from head to foot. A Half-Conformist hath two Souls, like the Gnostics, but one Body; observe that: Two Eyes, or two Pair; but how placed, whether all in his Face, or one in his Neck, he doth not tell us: Two Hands, to subscribe two manner of ways: Two Legs, one for a Tub, another for a Pulpit; one to bend to the North, the other to the South. And if a Man would know how this Half-Conformist bends and bows, it is for all the World like the Haven of Crete. But if a Man may so bold as to examine the Comparison, and stay at the Haven, he might have left out the Comparison. He quotes Scripture, Acts 27.12. where we read of a Haven in Crete, which lies towards the South-West, and the North-West; the Word is, [Greek or Hebrew], translated in English, that lieth towards, or looking towards the South-West, and the North-West. Well, but what is that to us, which way the Haven bends or bows? Yes it is, for it shows us how we bow; a Man may see it in the Haven, as in an Emblem, or in a Glass, as it were. Now who would take the Haven of Crete for the Emblem of a Grindalizer? As it bows, just so do we, to the Church of England, and to the Kirk of Scotland, as Interest and Opportunity shall incline.

If he had called us by another Name, and not by a Name of Sanctity and Reverence, as the Name of Grindal is, I had not been so moved to tell him, this is like that Inhumanity of the Papists, to rake into the Ashes of Venerable Grindal, and worse, and make Dirt of his Ashes, to bespatter us with his Memory, and to shovel up the Dirt of the filthy Gnosticks, called Borboritae from their Filthiness, upon the Grave of that holy Man, and upon our Holy Profession. If this Dirt were like to stick, I would wipe it off. I pass it over. But what a monstrous Fancy hath the Man! A Half-Conformist is described by his Inside, as having two Souls; so the Gnosticks held that Man had: Secondly, by his Eyes, looking two manner of ways: Thirdly, by his Legs, bending like the Haven of Creet, to two contrary Quarters of the World. This great Wit, not having Comparisons at hand, travels a great way to fetch one, and talks like a Man of Creet, (who are always Liars, as said their own Poet.) But this is but an imperfect Piece, for all his pains. Let us borrow Hands and Legs from Mr. Gould, and then take this Half-Conformist within and without, from head to foot. A Half-Conformist hath two Souls, like the Gnosticks, but one Body; observe that: Two Eyes, or two Pair; but how placed, whether all in his Face, or one in his Neck, he doth not tell us: Two Hands, to subscribe two manner of ways: Two Legs, one for a Tub, another for a Pulpit; one to bend to the North, the other to the South. And if a Man would know how this Half-Conformist bends and bows, it is for all the World like the Haven of Creet. But if a Man may so bold as to examine the Comparison, and stay at the Haven, he might have left out the Comparison. He quotes Scripture,