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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.
Now before I go further, I desire the Reader to believe me, that I approve of very much good Matter, well-spoken, and well-applied. But I fear, Prejudice and Partiality weighs too heavy upon his Bowl.
Now before I go further, I desire the Reader to believe me, that I approve of very much good Matter, well-spoken, and well-applied. But I fear, Prejudice and Partiality weighs too heavy upon his Bowle.
I do confess, i• is a very good Notion and Doctrine, that we should manage all our Differences with Temper: But why should he single out this as the main, if not whole of the Text, which is but a good Behaviour in a particular Case, and but one Instance of a general Duty, seems not so clear. Besides, 'tis like it is too narrow a Notion, except a Christian have, or may have some Matters of Controversy or Difference with all Men, and that all Christians may have differing and contrary Opinions and Principles, and each one is bound to maintain his own Side with Temper.
As he doth often repeat his own Sense of Moderation, so he doth deliver a common, but untrue Notion of Moderation, in a Lay and Church-Capacity, from p. 36, to p. 41. and then gives his Reasons against such a kind of Moderation, as he is pleased to describe, to pag. 48.
As he doth often repeat his own Sence of Moderation, so he doth deliver a common, but untrue Notion of Moderation, in a Lay and Church-Capacity, from p. 36, to p. 41. and then gives his Reasons against such a kind of Moderation, as he is pleased to describe, to pag. 48.