XII.]
_That_ the Jesuits were learned men and good subjects. "I know many of
them," he says, in one of his writings against Rivetus, "who are very
desirous to see abuses abolished, and the church restored to its
primitive unity."--We shall hereafter see that Father Petau, an
illustrious member of the society, possessed the confidence of
Grotius:[051]
_That_, Grotius looked upon the abolition of episcopacy and of a visible
head of the church, as something very monstrous:[052]
_That_, he acknowledged that some change was made in the eucharistic
bread; that, when Jesus Christ, being sacramentally present, favours us
with his substance,--as the Council of Trent expresses its doctrine on
the Eucharist,--the appearances of bread and wine remain, and in their
place succeed the body and blood of Christ: [053]
[Sidenote: XII. 2. Grotius's Religious Sentiments.]
_That_, Grotius did not approve of the sentiments of the Calvinists
concerning the Eucharist, and reproached them with their contradiction.
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