[ 97 ] I € And if befides this ,by the care of Biiliops and ' Kings thofe things ae taken away which contra.:. 'diet that holy Docctine, and were brought iri by ' evil Manners, and not by Authority of CouncilS ' or old Tradition; then Grotius and many more ' with him will have that with which they inay ~ be content. J ' Val. pro pace, That which he biameth is, r. The 'School-mens liberty of difputing, and Opinions 'not agreeable to Councils. 2. And the PridG;, 'Covecoufnefs, and ill Lives of the Prelates and 'others (which all fober . Jefuits and Papi11s 'blame.) . · · Page 16. That the labours of Grotius for the 'peace of the Church were not difpleafing to ma- . 'ny equal Men, many know at Paris, and many in 1 ' all France, many in Poland, and Germany, and ~ riot a few in England, chat are placid, and I.ov- ' ers of peace: For as for the now-raging Brown- ' ifis and others like them, with whom Dr~ Rivet · ' better (lgreeth than with the Bifhops of England; 'who can defire to pleafe them that is ·not touch..: ' ed with their Venom ?] / ,. And whereas you may find Grotiiu and his Ad.– herents yet difclairriing Popery, and faying, 'They 'are no Papifis, he -cells you his meaning, lb. p.15. ' [In that Epiftle Grotius by Papifts rnean_c rhbfe ) _' tha~ without a___ny difference do appiuve ofall rhe ' fayings and domgsofthe 'Pope, for Honour and ' Lucres fake as is ufual. ] . . By this defcription I fuppofe that ti1any Popes even of late wete no Papifrs, fuch as condemned . the Acts and Perfons of their Predecdfors, and fuch as cenfured Liberius and I-lonarius, no'r Adrian Jh~ fixth, that faith ~ Pope may be a Hererick ~ .. . I H iWf •
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