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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 are scarce known but per modum opinionis; we plough cunningly, and carry it cunningly, yet as cunning as we are, you are more cunning, ever to find us out per one modum or other: And for all our Cunning, you declare how we may be known:
We are scarce known but per modum opinionis; we plow cunningly, and carry it cunningly, yet as cunning as we are, you are more cunning, ever to find us out per one modum or other: And for all our Cunning, you declare how we may be known:
1. Per modum Opinionis.
2. Per modum of open Compliances with the Enemies. Now here we fail in our Cunning, that we carry it openly.
3. Per modum of Gallionism. You tell us what you mean by Gallionism, and I tell you, that when we come into the Place of Gallio, to be Deputies, we will take care that there be no Insurrections against Paul; and if any Sosthenes be beaten, he shall be heard and vindicated: But we are almost all laid aside, and if Paul and Sosthenes, we cannot help them. When the proportion of Zeal is stated due to Ceremonies, we will be just, and pay it to an hair; but we cannot rail for Ceremonies, nor divide the Church for them, nor raise a War for them, nor cast our Brethren into Prisons for them, nor die Martyrs for them.