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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.
But to take a fuller View of that Sermon:
First, he describes Moderation to be such a gracious Habit of Mind, as will teach and incline us to observe a due Mean and Temper in our outward Actions, and Converse with others, so as to give no just Occasion of Offence, p. 7. But he takes it in a more particular Sense, more largely, and more briefly, pag. 7. Moderation is a Virtue, which teaches and enables a Man, upon all occasion of Contest and Controversy with others, to maintain and assert his Principles and Opinions, whose Truth he is persuaded of, with Temper.
First, he describes Moderation to be such a gracious Habit of Mind, as will teach and incline us to observe a due Mean and Temper in our outward Actions, and Converse with others, so as to give no just Occasion of Offence, p. 7. But he takes it in a more particular Sence, more largely, and more briefly, pag. 7. Moderation is a Vertue, which teaches and enables a Man, upon all occasion of Contest and Controversy with others, to maintain and assert his Principles and Opinions, whose Truth he is persuaded of, with Temper.
Which he doth more particularly branch out: