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. LXII.

YEA I must say that my thoughts have * 1.1 ever justified Grotius from that Here∣sie which he hath too oft been charged with; viz. Socinianism. I never could perceive that he was of that sect: but whatever he hath said or done that way, I have reason to think, was no more then the Jesuites ordinarily would have done: and that he complyed much more with the Je∣suites then the Socinians: For it is his own profession; (and I will believe him) and his doctrines signifie it. Indeed the Jesuites themselves are not neer so far from the Socinians as the Reformed Churches are; but have many opinions complying with them, which when men find in Grotius, they mistake him (I think) for a Socinian. If he oft say that Imputed ••ighteousness is un∣known to Scriptures, and that Justitia impu∣tata frigus injecit & plebi & plebis ducibus, &c. (Discus. p. 170.) or that Christ sa∣tisfied by meriting that we by Conversion should satisfie, &c. No such passages as these will prove him a Socinian any more then all the Jesuites are Socinians. And the doctrine of the Trinity he expresly

owns, however he deal with particular Texts of Scripture that concern it. Nor do I know of any Passage in his Explica∣tion of that doctrine in which he gives so much occasion of offence this way, as Thom. White (Instit. Theolog.) and ma∣ny other Papists do, that are on the side that Grotius disliked; much more as the Jesuites do.

Notes

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  §. 62.