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He maintains in his pieces against Rivetus that the Society had produced very able men of an irreproachable life, and that there were more such among them than among others. "I know many of them, he says, who are very desirous to see the abuses abolished, and the church restored to its primitive unity. The King entrusts them with his most valuable concerns."
In fine, in a piece against Rivetus , he proves the primacy of the Pope from a passage of St. Cyprian, and adds, "You see that the primacy is hereby established; and this name in every society implies some jurisdiction. The Bishop of Rome, says he , is Prince of the Christian Aristocrasy, as it has been called before our time by the Bishop of Fossombrone.
The celebrated Schurman, whose extensive knowledge had at that time gained her a very high reputation, signifies to Rivetus, Jan. 20, 1643 , the general discontent of the greater number of the Reformed against Grotius. "Hitherto, says she, every one had a high idea of Grotius's genius and erudition.
In refuting the apology of Rivetus he speaks with all the zeal of a Roman Catholic Disputant, and proves that the Calvinists are Schismatics, and had no mission; that they neither had miracles for them, nor any particular command from God: that the Ministers are factious spirits, who seek only to disturb the State: that their religion is new, and has not antiquity on its side.
William Grotius was no doubt astonished at his brother's vivacity, and probably gave him some check for it; for Grotius afterwards writes to him, "What I wrote to you, relating to my son and Blondius, I did it not because I approved of such things, but because that or something worse might happen." M. Huet is mistaken: it was not Rivetus whom Grotius meant by this verse of Catullus, but Laet.
Via ad pacem art. x. p. 619. & 642. Votum pro pace, p. 687. Animad. in Animad. art. x. p. 642. Via, p. 619. Variations, l. 9. p. 37. XXI. He justifies the decision of the Council of Trent concerning the number of the sacraments in his works against Rivetus.
He would not have held a language so opposite to Christianity, at, or after the time of his dispute with Rivetus. Ep. 477. p. 890. Ep. 480. p. 891. & 482. p. 891. Ep. 485. p. 892. Ep. 445. p. 895. 507. p. 901. 511. p. 902. & 514. p. 904. Ep 61. p. 276. & 89. p. 415.
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.
If we consider him with regard to the art of Disputation, I have never seen a person reason with less force, as is evident from his pieces which Rivetus and Desmarets have answered.
If the parties would set about it sincerely, without obstinacy or private interest, they would soon find ways of accommodation; but some of all parties are so warm, that they censure such of their own party as seek to accommodate differences, with no less severity than they do their adversaries. With what presumptuous rigour did Rivetus the Minister treat Grotius for proposing the means of peace?
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