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Show Memorials of only th t~· pajJage of His out of hit . ..AnJwer to Dr. Rivet , -n•here he hath . words of thu fenfe: .. IZJ Animadv. * I have always loved Peace , and do v~tii pro notu love it , and to it do I dire& my labours •d C.rffandrum. b 1 bl" k d . h Dcdij&rim.pe". ot 1 pu tc an pnvate, t at we may obtein it: firll , between Empires profeffing Chrill , and then in che Church , ·which Chrill would have co be One. And I mean Peace without injury co t"hacTruth, which the Scripture and perpetual Tra. dicion conllgn unto us. And ieeino Peace though it were made , cannot be kep; without a certain Order of Government I love alfo that order, which the lono ex~ pe_rience of old rimes hath approved. It cannot be, but the Lovers ofthefe chiJJos JI1UH incur the hatred of ~hem that fe~k advamage by wars and difcords, luch as our Age abou nds wi th. Such enemies of Peace I well forefa w would rife up againfl: Me and my endeavour of Pe::cc. I eafily fuffer ic' and comfort my (elf with the Con fci~ru:e of my good Ddign. For the promotwg whereof I have faid chat, which fe C"med to n:e melt pro fit::~ b!c , according to the meaiure of my unckr!hndino and ~eatling, with fame Rezard ~df~ f~ the ttmes wherein we live. To the order ~r fjo v erm11.cnt here named pertains what h.e • .ttnhlltJdtJtrf. [revzkJ ·e!fewhere: ~ For, if the perpetual m. dec~lt6atu C (1 f h U . r l Ch h . · 5.4mllotum. u rom o t e n1vena urc , lntro-duccd ( as we may believe, and the Ancients did believe) by the Apoflles them .. felvei feJves, be of any. value , neither. can a'Presbyter be ordamed but ~y a ·B.1fi1op , nor a Bifhop but by two or more Bdbops. The Contempt of this Holy Order ha.th brouoht in Co much Ltcence , that who1oever ~an lead the common people by the ears, n:Jaketh to him(elf a ,right of gathe- t Novum ttl· rino a new Church t· · tum, &ut ::;, · . nunc loqui ltlDI ep, E.tcltfiam Colligtrt, ~i~i, etiam(i licntt, non hbt'(ft· Video q11~m male idaliu ceffi;·it. MultJpl~earN11l Numemm, non l<ftirtam. Grouuc in Voto p. 40. Here Jhal! I infert that Elogy of our Grotius which I received f rom a learX ned man * that had the honour to bet Mr.~· T. acquat.n ted wt.t h hr. m . F H Chaplam to tn ranee. e the (then) WH a Man wonderfully courteous and En Iilli Emaft: 1b\e , very free in communicating his ba~dour, lho knowledge in any point of learning, very truly Noble ready to ~ive his advice touching any L. Sc"damore. courfe of H:udy, what Authors were fittdl: . , to be read. H1s L atin in his difcourfe wai alc6oether fuch as we fee in his Books , ready , fluent , eafy and unaffeCted: io that I verily think, no man ever fpake'-.. more fluently in his Mother tongue. He was a moH indefatigable Student , and a man of a llngular ready memory ,and clear-nefs of J·udoment :A great Lover of the,. S h '~ Um. on and nP eace oft he Chu rc 1 * A ee t e ['e .. 1 , an p- ginning of his prover of the Church of England *,asmo~ Votump;-o pace. 'order! y reformed. He was of a molt f weet * Se~, of Au· Chrifttan difpofition,far from any thought thomy, p.Io~ · of revenge for any Injury. One time co-ming |
