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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.
Behold, here's another friendly Testimonial given to moderate Conformists, but not for Preferment and Favour, we are sure: Treacherous Friends, Vipers, and like Judas, do not savour of Moderation in a Preacher upon that Text. It seems the aching Tooth did now begin to trouble him; I shall not pour Vinegar into it, nor pass it by without some Reflections upon this great Complement.
Behold, here's another friendly Testimonial given to moderate Conformists, but not for Preferment and Favour, we are sure: Treacherous Friends, Vipers, and like Judas, do not savour of Moderation in a Preacher upon that Text. It seems the aking Tooth did now begin to trouble him; I shall not pour Vinegar into it, nor pass it by without some Reflections upon this great Complement.
1. He supposes that there is no moderate Construction of our Faith and Security given to the Church; for if there be, why may not a Man of moderate Principles conform, and retain and practise Moderation, without violation of his Faith? Now some of us knew the way into the Church before he did, and we were told of some moderate Interpretation of our Bonds.
2. If the Words are capable of a mild sense, we are taught that is the sense of the Law: A moderate Man will put a moderate charitable Sense upon them; and if the Words will bear it, he is as honest to the Church, that gives her security in a moderate sense, as he that takes it in a rigorous.
2. If the Words are capable of a mild sence, we are taught that is the sence of the Law: A moderate Man will put a moderate charitable Sence upon them; and if the Words will bear it, he is as honest to the Church, that gives her security in a moderate sence, as he that takes it in a rigorous.