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[Footnote 057: Page 296.]

[Footnote 058: Page 298.]

[Footnote 059: Page 299.]

[Footnote 060: Page 300. M. Le Clerc, (_Sentimens de quelques
Theologiens de Hollande, dix-septieme Lettre_) defends Grotius with
great ability against the charge of Socinianism: he justly observes,
that, his abstaining from unpleasing propositions, his silence on
offensive doctrines, and his conciliating expressions, should not too
easily be accounted proofs, of belief of his precise sentiments of any
particular tenets. Grotius, says Le Clerc, was like an arbitrator, who,
to bring to amity the parties in difference, recommends to each, that he
should give something of what he himself considers to be his strict
right.]

[Footnote 061: Ep. 363. p. 364]

[Footnote 062: Ep. 491. p. 195.]

[Footnote 063: Ep. 494. p. 896.]

[Footnote 064: Ep. 1706. p. 736.]

[Footnote 065: _Comparison of Calvinism and Arminianism_. vol. ii. p.
560.]

[Footnote 066: Ib. Vol. ii. p. 609.]

[Footnote 067: Ep. 1538. p. 573, 690, 926.]

[Footnote 068: Ep. 528. p. 400.]

[Footnote 069: "Those," says Mr. James Nichols,[070]

"who wish to behold the praises to which HUGO GROTIUS or HUGH DE
GROOT, is justly entitled, and which he has received in ample
measure from admiring friends and reluctant foes, may consult SIR
THOMAS POPE BLOUNT's _Censura celebriorum Authorum_. His well
earned reputation is founded on too durable a basis to be moved by
such petty attacks as those to which I have alluded in a previous
part of this introduction (p. xxi.), or those of Mr. Orme in page
641.

"That a man so accomplished, virtuous, fearless, and unfortunate,
should have had many enemies, among his contemporaries, is not
wonderful. But the number of those who evinced their hatred to him,
or to his philanthropic labours, increased after his decease, when
they could display it with impunity. 'This very pious, learned, and
judicious man,' says Dr. Hammond, 'hath of late, among many, fallen
under a very unhappy fate, being most unjustly calumniated,
sometimes as a SOCINIAN, sometimes as a PAPIST, and, as if he had
learnt to reconcile contradictions, sometimes _as both of them
together._'

"One cause of the Charge of SOCINIANISM being preferred against him,
has been already mentioned, (p. xxxiii.) and it is more fully
explained in pages 637, 642. The reader will not require many