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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.
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.
It would be too tedious to examine all the Members and Parts of a moderate Man in a Lay-Capacity, but what is most material.
First, doth it become a moderate Man to be so positive, as to say, after an imaginary, oratorical Description of a Lay moderate Man, such as I and others never knew, This (saith the Preacher) is no Fiction of mine, no Creature of my Fancy, but Matter of Fact, visible to every Eye, p. 37. That it is not difficult to prove, such Men act against their Conscience; for really, a moderate Man, in the common Notion, if examined, is but a softer Phrase for a Knave, pag. 48.