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Show ·' no wealth to give ; not the Red Hac: Alas ( faid lhe) my Enemies h:~ve that: Yet have I great Rewards, Good Confcience- , Gratefull Pollerity. Gods Beneficence. Thou heard{l, and fearedH not this evil Age , That Wars againfl Peace with perpetual Rage. Hence .Athenttus, and Tfl/yhius now, Thofe Glorious and younger Works, whtch thou Hafl wrought : and let thy Straho y1eld his place , - And all thy Sons of Roman or Gre~k race. One more Heroick comes. The former were Labours of Learning; Piety is he're. Nea"fltAhe f arne t im,, he wr-ote an &pi file to J cannes Hotmannus Ve1lenus, whtch, he(:aufe it touches (oncorrJ. and the 1Jecru · above mention· d' may fitly he added in this place. · * Hugo Grot. * I received by the hand of the Right Jo. Hotman. Honourable the French Embaffadour Ve/lerit~, ,.6• your worthy Prefent, viz. Books of ltr~g. 1614· excellent Men written on behalf of th~ beil thirig (yet moft de[ pair• d of) the peace of divided· Chrifiianity. To fpeak my opinion briefly , I think, if Luther had The Author. had had. the mind of tMelanilhon, and the Patnarch of the WeH the mind of CafTander, it had fared bettef with the Affairs of Europe , which is now , for a .whole Age almofl:, miferably iliaken wuh bloody wars , under the Titl~ of the Gofpel. And how, when even thofe who have defened th~ Rqman pa.rcy, d? for a few Controverhes fo implacably dlfagree, what hope can there be of Con-cord in tne whole Body? Neverchelefs, Endeavours in fo good a thing are not without praife , even when they are without fuccefs, But, if the prefe.nt ."'\ oe dcferv~ this punifhtl!ent, to be gtven tfp to thetr own madneis , and will not ad-mit any wholfome Counfels, the next Age perchance will be more happy, and either ~e fiudious of peace, or weary of comennon. God often brinos matters about unexpeCtedly. I i\.1ppofe 0 you have read my Book*. ·ris doubtfull whether* cui tit, Pie~ my ow~ Cou_!ltrymen or the J efuits are ta5 Or~inuw • more ddpleaied Wtth it : the Fonner, Ho!Jan«~<t _, m becaufe I defend that paradox ( as it fa/lor. feemeth to them) Th:n in every Church, they tttay be tolerated , who differ about things not limply neceffary: the Latter, becaufe I call Princes to the infpectiot1 and care of matters of Relioion. Both which Points are fuch , that~ if they be not U~ted fo, we 1hill neic·her be able to r~~over our loft unity, nor to retain Y Y 3 this I |