The Grotian religion discovered, at the invitation of Mr. Thomas Pierce in his Vindication. With a preface, vindicating the Synod of Dort from the calumnies of the new Tilenus; and David, Peter, &c. And the Puritanes, and sequestrations, &c. from the censures of Mr. Pierce. / By Richard Baxter, Catholick.

SECT. XXXI.

DIscuss. pag. 69. he praiseth King James for saying, [Si Romanus Pon∣tifex probet, non suam se, verum Dei immorta∣lis gloriam quaerere, & populorum pacem, concordiam ac salutem sibi curae esse, se sine cunct atione primas ei delaturum, dicturum{que} non invitum, à Pontifice totam Ecclesiam curari.] And he adds, [Neque vero Car∣dinalis Perronius aliud à Rege illo exigebat, quam ut Papae tribueret illas Primas, id est, praecedextis dignitatis praerogativam in omni∣bus negotiis ad Religionem aut Ecclesiam spectantibus.] Though he mis-interpret King James his [Primas] yet he is easie to be understood himself, that if Perron were a Papist, and would have drawn King James to be a Papist, then Grotius was for Popery: Otherwise not: And when I call him a Papist, I mean it no otherwise then as Perron was a Papist.

In the next words he cites Bucer, (I know not where, and therefore cannot vin∣dicate him) saying [per Protestantes posse Pontificem Romanum & caeteros Episcopos omnes suam potestatem retinere: tantum sua potestate utantur in aedificationem Ecclesiae.]

But Bucer took not that to be their power which Grotius did.