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Moderation a Virtue

by John Owen

A spirited 1683 defense of moderate conformists in the Church of England, written against high-church critics who branded them "Grindalizers" and "Trimmers." Drawing on Philippians 4:5, the author argues that moderation is the highest Christian virtue — the cement holding church and society together — and vindicates men who practiced equitable conformity without rigid extremism. Part polemic, part theological treatise, it offers a searching portrait of the truly moderate Christian as the wisest, best, and happiest of men.
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3
Word count
30,533
Type
Treatise
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Table of contents

  1. 01 To the Reverend Clergy, and Honored Gentlemen, Who Are Truly Moderate 1,982 words
  2. 02 Postscript 98 words
  3. 03 A Vindication of Moderate Churchmen 28,365 words
Front matter (1 section)

Title Page

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, particularly for reading the Second Service in the Desk: In Answer to a late Pamphlet, entitled, Parish-Churches turned into Conventicles, &c.

LONDON: Printed for Jonathan Robinson, at the Golden Lion in Saint Paul's Church-yard. 1683.

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