" "I am not the only one, who has conceived such
projects," he writes in another letter to his brother:[062]
"Erasmus, Cassander; Wicelius and Casaubon had the same design. La
Meletiere is employed at present in it. Cardinal de Richelieu
declares that he will protect the coalition; and he is such a
fortunate man, that he never undertakes any thing, in which he
does not succeed. If there were no hopes of success at present,
ought we not to sow the seed, which may he useful to
posterity?[063] Even if we should only diminish the mutual hatred
among Christians, and render them more sociable, would not this be
worth purchasing at the price of some labour and reproaches?"[064]
Grotius expressed himself in similar terms to Baron Oxenstiern: Surely
it is the true language of the Gospel.
[Sidenote: CHAP. XII.]
In the first appendix to this work,--we shall insert, an account
"of the Formularies, Confessions of Faith, and Symbolic Books, of
the Roman Catholic, Greek, and principal Protestant churches:"--
In the second appendix,--we shall insert an account of the principal
attempts made, since the Reformation, for the re-union of
Christians.
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