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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.
2. The Application follows. Therefore as we would not Hypocritize, &c. and why not Grindalize? waving little things, we say, 1. To your Tents O Israel, was the Speech of Jeroboam casting off the House of David: And therefore, If Grindalizers must be our Name; We Grindalizers declare this to you, that we will not to our Tents,1 for we have a Portion in David, and an Inheritance in the Son of Jesse. We will not follow Jeroboam, and worship his Golden Calves? Are you thereabouts with your Calves? The Oath which we have sworn unto David, we will by God's Grace perform; we will not comply with our Enemies, nor cut off our Friends; we will gain-say seducing Spirits, and look Faction in the Face: We will follow the Advice of Calvin to Bucer, in the things he wrote of, which were not to avoid moderate Counsels in matters of Religion. To endeavour by all means, ut ritus qui superstitionis aliquid redolent tollantur medio; to take away all Rites that favoured any thing of Superstition. This I commend unto thee by Name, that you may free your self from Envy, with which many lead you, for they do always entitle you either Author or Approver in all moderate and middle Counsels. Nam mediis Consiliis, vel Authorem, vel Approbatorem semper inscribunt Calvin Bucero. And therefore we will let our Moderation be known to all Men, although we will never reconcile the Articles of the Church to the Council of Trent, according to sancta Clara, no Cassandrian Grotian, Consultation and Reduction.
2. The Application follows. Therefore as we would not Hypocritize, &c. and why not Grindalize? waving little things, we say, 1. To your Tents O Israel, was the Speech of Jeroboam casting off the House of David: And therefore, If Grindalizers must be our Name; We Grindalizers declare this to you, that we will not to our Tents,1 for we have a Portion in David, and an Inheritance in the Son of Jesse. We will not follow Jeroboam, and worship his Golden Calves? Are you thereabouts with your Calves? The Oath which we have sworn unto David, we will by God's Grace perform; we will not comply with our Enemies, nor cut off our Friends; we will gain-say seducing Spirits, and look Faction in the Face: We will follow the Advice of Calvin to Bucer, in the things he wrote of, which were not to avoid moderate Counsels in matters of Religion. To endeavour by all means, ut ritus qui superstitionis aliquid redolent tollantur medio; to take away all Rites that favoured any thing of Superstition. This I commend unto thee by Name, that you may free your self from Envy, with which many lead you, for they do always entitle you either Author or Approver in all moderate and middle Counsels. Nam mediis Consiliis, vel Authorem, vel Approbatorem semper inscribunt Calvin Bucero. And therefore we will let our Moderation be known to all Men, altho we will never reconcile the Articles of the Church to the Council of Trent, according to sancta Clara, no Cassandrian Grotian, Consultation and Reduction.