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. LXXIII.

IF I should rise higher and shew the * 1.1 Probability that the Grotian design was the cause of all our wars and changes here in England, I should neither please you nor my self. And therefore I will only say this, 1. That Franc. à S. Clara's de∣sign and Grotius's seem the very same, and their Religion and Church the same. 2. That this S. Clara is yet the Queens Chaplaine, (as White tells us;) and the French Reli∣gion being the same with Grotius's, we have reason enough to believe the Queen to be so moderate as to be of the same Religion. 3. How far the King was inclined to a Re∣conciliation, I only desire you to judge; 1. By the Articles of the Spanish and French match (sworn to) 2. By his Let∣ter to the Pope, written in Spain. 3. By the choice of Agents for Church and State. 4. By the residence of the Popes Nuntio's here, and the Colledge for the Jesuites, &c. 5. By the illegal innovations in worship, so resolvedly gradatim introduced. All which I speak not with the least desire to perswade men that he was a Papist, nor do

I believe any such thing (His conference with the Marquess of Worcester may satisfie men for that) but only to shew that while he as a Moderate Protestant took hands with the Queen a Moderate Papist, the Grotian design had great advantage in Eng∣land, which he himself boasted of.

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