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Show houJe , Ana fo AWAJ to Antwerp , and thence to France. Ff'om Antwerp he ·writeJ to his goad Friend Du Mauricr; thHs: • Grotira MAt#- * Aifur( your felf, · I fhall ever be inrtrill. 30. M.ar- dcbted to you· for your good will , as tii, r6~r.. much as if you had brought the bulinefs A,ttarp•tt , cf my Liberty to effect Your Afi"e6Hon B•gam. was never the lefs, though Gcd prevented yoo', and rook unto himfelf the Glory of , the Work. And nuw, the Favours you do me, aqd otfu me, are fo gr«':ll!, that if any could be equall' d with tire. Good of l.lbercy, Th€y mi:ght,. which are of much concernment to my life, fa.fety, and honour. I Mve cd11ofen my fir it Refuge in / dJiS Ctty , that I might hel'e explore' whether it be a feat~nable time for. me to oo into France, while the- :Embaffie of Zl • r our Counn-ymen, (lcan~u ftl;~, OFOUJ Friends) is there. For that reafon, I !\ave VYlllOten ~o the m0£l bonour"d ,. the ,..Prefident Janninm. But,, what I e~- pe-Ctedftom ~im, I fitild . abundan~ly m vour Letter. Wherefore , by Gods b\ef· .frog ,· ) ~_w~ltfoth:5W· ycuP ~q,>unfd. Thi· . tber will I betake my fclf , · ~nd' 11ender Thalllks·t!<J·my g.oC!>d· Friend's ,~ ~h«-.t 11ave labour"d fo much to pt'0ru11r my ·liberty. h _the ~~r-·Rpi:ftle- (' from P'tlrJs ) P~ t h~ :. Groti1t4Mau- fame Perfon, he faith: 1:,J'.Jeam (h1efly mill. s1., AJI!. by you , how oreat is the con{lancy of IfU. LUietJtt. Goodnefs, -tmt -fwimming in tfie!furface' · bua f\Ul'k iitte ' d)~ heart .• · S@ ina~tm you, The Author you, in your favours and graces toward me. Tlus I ~erceivc by their love, whom yo~r love chiefly hath made to be my Fnends. Putean and Peirefc, fo foon as they heard of my commlno 1:an pie-fendy ro bid me welcome, ~~d oblioed me by thei~ e:xrr~me couneiy. The P~e'- fident Janmus fem his letters to me while h~ fupp?s'd ~flay'? at Ant~erp: overflowtng wHh Kmdnels ~ ~nd (whicp I el.teem greatefi) giving as large a Te-fiimony of our Innocence. , as could be wiO.lt. Thus kind I found BoijfiJGiM alfo, whom I met at his own houfe where he iby'd for me, beino about t; go to Court. By the advice0 .of ·them Both, I r~efi at~ ari.r , ready to f.ollow th_at way tor the 1Uture, which they /hall thmk good •. to whofe wifdom, fidelity, and fnend0.11p, I do entirely commit my fe1f. At Paris he WM recompenced for his t~diom r~flraint by the fweet converfatton of hu learned Friends, Tilenus, Cor-' delius , Petrus and Jacobus Pureanus Francifcus Thuanus, aHd others of gre4; note, Among whom he diJPcr[edcertain EpilramJ concernmg hu fortunatc,efcape; to ~ne, a ':'oft e":iner.t P erfrm , he fendJ tim followmg Epiflle with them: . *Liberty, the greac:ll Gor;>d of t_his * Grotiru N.N. life , ~nd moll conven1ent to Nature tut, a·. Maii hath this incommodity , that unwary J6z·r. ' Morta~,s can fcarce keep· a ~ean in the A a a · ufe |
