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Father Petau, among others, possessed his confidence, as we have already observed, and shall see again. Ep. 935. p. 120. Ep. 487. p. 864. Ep. 1004. p. 641. Ep. 593. p. 913. Ep. 534. p. 914. 537. p. 916. & 1520, p. 689. Ep. 1570. p. 709. Ep. 1078. p. 711. Ep. 607. p. 938. Ep. 610. p. 939. Ep. 613. p. 940. Ep. 674. p. 959. Ep. 677. p. 959. Animad. in animad. Riveti, p. 640. Ep. 628. p. 915.

Animad in anim. Riveti, ad Art. 6. p. 658. Discussio Rivet. Apolog. p. 694. & p. 681. XIX. His great knowledge of antiquity and that singular veneration which he always paid to the primitive church made him even in his youth look upon the abolition of episcopacy, and of a visible head of the church, as something very monstrous.

This work was followed by two others on the same subject: Votum pro pace ecclesiasticâ, contra examen Andreæ Riveti, and Rivetiani Apologetici Discussio: this last did not appear till after the author's death. He wrote, in 1638, a small piece, entitled: De Canæ administratione ubi Pastores non sunt, item an semper communicandum per symbola.

Rivetus, the Clergyman, treated Grotius with as much indignity, as if he had attempted to destroy the foundations or Christianity. Grotius answered him in a tract, entitled: Animadversiones in animadversiones Andreæ Riveti.