5. Some of our General Receivers, when they got the Publick Money in their hands, were apt to be very Moderate in paying it out again.
6. Some have been very Moderate in giving in their accounts too, as may appear in former Reigns, and perhaps in time to come too.
Some Moderately Wise, some Moderatly Honest, but most Immoderately adicted to think themselves Both.
Tho' I might be a little more serious upon the matter, yet this way of talking is not so much a Jest neither as it looks like; and has its Moral, in it self, which a Wise man may see, and for the Fool tis no matter whether he does or no. Custome has prevailed upon us to such a degree, that almost in every part the very Practice seem a Scandal, and the Word passes for a Reproach.
To say, among the Sons of Levy, such a man is a Moderate Church-man is to say he is no Church-man, and some of our present Bishops from the Practice of Moderation have been boldly call'd Presbiterians in the Pamphlets of our less Moderate writers.
In short, 'tis hard to find any party or profession of Men among us, that care for the Title; and those who but Moderately espouse an Intrest, are generally suspected by those who are of that side, as Persons Favouring their Enemies.
These Moderate Men, said a Gentleman whose Gown and Band had given us reason to expect better Language, they will Ruin the Church, this Damn'd Moderation, says he, spoils all, we should deal well enough with the Dissenters, if it were not for these men of Moderation, they are worse than Dissenters, for they seem to be among us, and yet wont Joyn heartily to do the Work.
Moderation seems to be cast off on every side, and is used as a Badge of reproach in every Class, or degree of Men in the World.
In the Church of England, 'tis call'd Low-Church.
In the Court, 'tis call'd Whiggism.