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Show ciliatio diffidentium de re przdefiinaria & oratia opinionum : which the De4n ha:ing perufed,returns, with this judge. meNt upon it : j1. OvtraUt~~ 'J\smitto ad Te, &c. I return to you :z~~~: Grotio, your Conciliation, which is very much an 16•1113· approv'd by me, but I fear you will not approve it to your Antagonills, efpecially the more rigid Secbtors of Calvin's way: That Zenonian See\ will hardly yield to moderate fentences in thefe matters, hut will tooth and na"ll adhere unto that fatal doCtrine of Prede!lination , in the pure mafs, or at leaH in the corrupt, the R~· probates (that is, All men befides their abfolute\y Ele8:) being excluded from the Redemption of Chrift,' and from fuf. ficient Grace, in the intention of God and of Chrift. After his rewrn into Hollaf!d he profocuted his Cunfultation for Peace hy Letters to his ftienJs in Eng1and , and fent over a {opy of the Decree of the - States for the ending of thofe DifputeJ : M appears in another Epiftle of Cafau-bon• s, 1614. . • ca[a~ehoni •d "* Yours to Pr. Overal I will de1iver Grotium tpi(J. him my felf this day, and ask his coun· MLORnidi . 6. 1\.al. r l b B fi r H · 1614 1e a out your u mets. e IS now, not • ' Dean of St. Pauls, but Bilhop of Vch· field, which preferment was conferr'd on him by the moll gracious King , a month fince. But, fuch Accidents befall men, this Acccffion of honour was made che 'The' '1/.ut-hor: .the le~s joy_~ull co him, by the Stope. 'dr feme :tkc: d!leafe , wberewith he was ta• k~n that very day whereon he obtain'd hts_ place. I w'll prevail with him 'to W~ttt:' ~on an An!wer ·, or, if I cari'ri{)t, I w1ll fu dy declare umo you his opinion. The Edtcl: of the moH illulhious Scates I read fo ioo.n as I had opened you; Packet, and noted therein one or tWo cxpreffions, which I would havre -'wilhed a little otherwife conceived. But_ I will expeCt the judgement of others ; and then l will diligently write unto you bJth my own and their Obkrvations.' In the mean, I cannot il.tfficiently pra.ife the Defign of the molt illufirious State-~ in / putting a relhaint upon curious H;ads by this Editl: t· The Lord bld~ their t Bt inEpl1h work I have long been perf waded '~hat ~q.lft.tHf v(rq the Immoderate defit·e of men top' eirc.e conjlzuf!J , du,. · h · t(lMat · R.e~ ,t mto t e iecret CoUilfels·of God, .beytmd cn~:_.10" ~~ what ~he et~rnal \IV'>(dome hath revealed a~ti. 'l;'iri gra-v to us m Scrtpture, is one of the molt 'Lii/Jim• p··~hagrievous EvHs of our Time. The ancient Vtfe,fod & forChurch firmly be\iev'CI : there are many M~lalff . . :htlqut {l . . Ch . 11, . ·' _ 1p1am J''..utt or .. ~r enes m runan Rellg10n, of which dm~I1J em- It Is better to be Blent, efpecially ~mono ceptam. Appathe . Cbmmon People, than to difput~ ret uenim jd r_ff'e fubully. I have written timch of that dactbm 'r. ut 4 . uo IJ6 1 e1putu . • . . . ' in hac do(l.rina :qMI P£~uut~(is . hmc ~anuhtt,omm, inJe Pe!at,itf.nii·Nm, populi ave,.. ~"! · &:' '~ ea doqr1na 'onftrmentur, qrttt {altftU nsftrtt proram & ~,., pwmpmm, tnquam, progrr!Jum & '""PI,.tn,, Nni V eo ad[cri- . contemptttl/1 t111t.tn ~onorum operMm non induc.at. See tRe !arc Kancs Decree l fee before 1 he 3 '. Artides, to the like purpofe. Y y op1- |
