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Show • Cd(aub. Epijf. UI. f. 1(.~1. Febr. Nemori11ls 'If love concord : I know many , that do fufpe6t \\nd hate no men more than peace-makers. The more haV'e I admir• d -tHe piety of King James, who doth fo· eltll:Jrace the fludy of Truth, that he recede~ n~:>e from the fludy of Unity. The [am~ -Cafaubc:m in another Epiftie to (;rotius: *The mofl wife King, mofi ftudious of Peace and Concord, having read your Letter, exceedingly praifed your piety joyn• d with equal · prudence. His Ma jeflie could wi£h, that all They, who have any hand in the Government of Chriflian Kin~domes and Common~ wealths , were ot your mind : and , he doubteth not , it would be for the great good of God•s Church. He alio wonderfully approves the counfel you fuggefl, of procuring concord by all means, at leaft among our own. If this, any way, through Gods mercy, could beeffeCted, the King affures himfelf, Many good men, who at this day knowing not whither to turn themfelve ~ amidll: our fo great di.fcords, do groan under the Popes T yrannie, would prov1de for the liberty of their Confciences. I will pronounce nothing of the Papifls of other Countryes: but of my Countrymen of France l think I may truly fay, thebeLlofchem do wait for the day of the Lord, and from their fouls detell the maint~iners 'of empty fuperllitions_, and of Papal Tyrannie. I fay more, and I fay it upon good good ground: If in our FrMJce", Reformation had been carried on, without fo much varying from the form of the An .. tient Church , many thoufands more , now moll a verfe from the DoCtrine of our Churches , had been converted. When I ha '{e fa td thus to our Miniflers in Fr4nce , I found but few, who pre-ferred not their owfil pr(cifenefs before gentle and moderate counfels. Here, far otherwife minded ate both the King, and every moll learned man of the EnglHh C~ergy. Many of the Bifhops in th1s Kmgdome , men exceUino in learnino a?d piety, I ha~e fo nd , 0 who day and mght .fludy the fame thing with you , and gtve .the.mfelves continually to t-he fame Cog1canons. And I doubt not, if a beg~n~ing. were f!Iade , or if any o~- cafion dKi anfe of efteeting that, of which Y?U have moll prudently written , both h~~ moll excellent Ma jefi~e , and the wnole Church or EnJ. iand, and efpecially the moil reverend Bifhops, would try all things , to promote fo oood a work. His Majcllie commanded m~, to let 'you und~rHan~ fo much , requelling you to conc~nue m the fame mind , and to com-lbumcace your counfels to us. · Bei~g z:n England , our Grotius pe~· ftfted tn hu endeavours of Reconciliation'. .· ' .. •nd prefented to the ' learned Dea~ 'of,. .. St • Pauls , Dr. Overal a /itt le 7 ral!f Cttm •lUI ( of /Ate ~ puhlifhed) ;,,ituled ' con: 'r{&.4mjlthd. '1' . 6f&. Cl 13t10 |
