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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.
Which he doth more particularly branch out:
1. A moderate Man is candid in his Thoughts, apt to make the best Construction of Things that will bear it; in his Words soft, (not calling moderate Conformists, Vipers, treacherous Friends, or Judas's) in his Carriage Courteous, p. 9.2. In Judicial Causes carries a Chancery in his Breast. 3. In Matters relating to Religion, he teacheth us to be concerned about Things more or less, in proportion to their Nature and Worth. 4. In Matters of Injury, he passeth by Faults, bears with, pities, &c. pag. 10, 11, 13.
Again, pag. 15. He thinks, Let your Moderation be known to all Men, imports as much as, that all Christians, at all times, and upon all occasions of Difference and Contest, to give clear and palpable Tokens of their Moderation to all Sorts and Conditions of Men.
Still it appears, that the Objects of Moderation are all sorts of Men, and that the Subject Matter upon which it is exercised, are Matters of Difference and Contest. So he repeats his Notion again, pag. 35. and again, pag. 37.