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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 ought with weight of Reason and Divinity to humble such, with Meekness to instruct and satisfy the Doubting; to be fearful to offend the Weak, and judg them, and heartily to wish them Soundness of Judgment, to direct honest and tender Affections. We would gladly gain and save them, and become one, and carry it to the worst of them, as St. Augustin, whom you quote, did to the Augustines.
5. You say, We are known by our talking, &c. If we talk thus, then we are known more perfectly than per modum Opinionis. Sir, we endeavour to speak of Conformity, and Nonconformity, &c. according to the true state of the Questions: and if Compassion and Seriousness be our Faults, we guess what you account Virtues, by such Innuendo's as these. For popular Elections of Bishops; we know a difference between the Election of the People, and the Consent of the People, and refer our selves to St. Cyprian, St. Augustin, and to Tertullian, &c. But as long as we submit to an Episcopacy, as chosen among us, it is sufficient, tho we may have different Opinions: And ⟨p. 16⟩this particular is cast in, (tell true if it be not) to flatter your Patron, for an additional Corps, if you are a Church-man. And as for the Notion of Schism, we consent to the Notion of the Church, Can. 9. and Protestant solid Writers.
5. You say, We are known by our talking, &c. If we talk thus, then we are known more perfectly than per modum Opinionis. Sir, we endeavour to speak of Conformity, and Nonconformity, &c. according to the true state of the Questions: and if Compassion and Seriousness be our Faults, we guess what you account Vertues, by such Innuendo's as these. For popular Elections of Bishops; we know a difference between the Election of the People, and the Consent of the People, and refer our selves to St. Cyprian, St. Augustin, and to Tertullian, &c. But as long as we submit to an Episcopacy, as chosen among us, it is sufficient, tho we may have different Opinions: And ⟨p. 16⟩