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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.
If all these Lines were Non-sence, we could laugh at his Childishness; but containing Slander, Jealousy, and Malignity, we will pray to be delivered from such Men, and wish him a better Mind. After a long-winded draught of Poison, vomited upon us, he takes breath in a shorter Sentence; wherein we are dignified and distinguished with other Names, and represented as little better than popish or peevish; and ⟨p. 20⟩what should the Scope of this Period be, but that Mole-catchers, and Mole-Traps be provided for us? We thank him however for his great care of the Church, whatever become of us. But I go on, And of this, &c. Now what should be the Substantive to this Article this, is hard for us blind Moles to find. It should be some Word or Sentence supplying the place of a Substantive of the singular Number, but half-Conformists, Church-Moles, blind Principles, undermining Practices, the plural Number; nor contribute, a Verb, cannot agree with it: What then? what shall it be? Nonconformity, Danger, Dishonour, open Enemy, or what should be the Substantive, or Antecedent to the Article or Demonstrative, This? But we will not stand upon This, but follow him through his History, as a Mole-catcher doth his Mole. And refer all he hath said;
If all these Lines were Non-sence, we could laugh at his Childishness; but containing Slander, Jealousy, and Malignity, we will pray to be deliver'd from such Men, and wish him a better Mind. After a long-winded draught of Poison, vomited upon us, he takes breath in a shorter Sentence; wherein we are dignified and distinguish'd with other Names, and represented as little better than popish or peevish; and ⟨p. 20⟩what should the Scope of this Period be, but that Mole-catchers, and Mole-Traps be provided for us? We thank him however for his great care of the Church, whatever become of us. But I go on, And of this, &c. Now what should be the Substantive to this Article this, is hard for us blind Moles to find. It should be some Word or Sentence supplying the place of a Substantive of the singular Number, but half-Conformists, Church-Moles, blind Principles, undermining Practices, the plural Number; nor contribute, a Verb, cannot agree with it: What then? what shall it be? Nonconformity, Danger, Dishonour, open Enemy, or what should be the Substantive, or Antecedent to the Article or Demonstrative, This? But we will not stand upon This, but follow him through his History, as a Mole-catcher doth his Mole. And refer all he hath said;