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A42234	The illustrious Hugo Grotius Of the law of warre and peace with annotations, III parts, and memorials of the author's life and death.; De jure belli et pacis. English	Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645.; Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687.	1655 (1655)	Wing G2120; ESTC R16252	497,189	832

And besides there is one thing more which may be feared most the Boldness of desperate men like unto the fiercest biting of dying beasts But if both Parties seem to themselves equal that indeed in Casa●… judgment is the best time to treat 〈◊〉 peace 〈◊〉 est they have Both some confidence in their own strength And whe●… Peace is made on whatsoever terms it is by all means to be preserved by reason 〈◊〉 that sanctimony of Faith aforesaid and with all care must be avoided not only perfidiousness but also whatever exasp●… rates the mind For what Cicero said 〈◊〉 private you may apply as well to the●… publick friendships As they are all to 〈◊〉 maintained with exact fidelity and Re●…gion so those especially which after c●…mities are made up again and restored GOd who alone can do it inscribe these things in their hearts who have the Affairs of Christendom in their hands and grant them a Mind intelligent of Divine and Human Right and ever remembring that she is elected by God to govern man a creature most dear unto himself THE END OUT OF THE LIFE OF S. LUDOVIC HIS CHARGE To his Son IF any Controversy or action be rais'd against thee inquire into the Truth as well on the contrary part as on thy side If thou hast any thing of anothers taken by thy self or by thy Ancestors Restore it quickly Wage no War against any Christian but by the Counsel of Many and when War is unavoidable And in War do no hurt to Church-men and those that have done thee no wrong If Seditions rise among thy subjects quiet them as soon as thou canst See often what thy Officers do and examin their ways and reform what is amiss Let no soul sin reign within thy Kingdom Out of the same King's life written by Joinvil chap. 89. THe King 's great Counsellors reprehended him oft for taking so much pains to make peace among his neighbours saying He did ill to end their wars which would be for his Advantage The King answerd You say not well For if my neighbouring Princes did see me cheri●… their Wars they would say I had a p●… upon them and hate me and take a time to do me and my Kingdom a mischief Moreover I should provoks the wrath of God against me who blesseth the Peace-makers Certain it is the Burgundians and Lorainers perceiving the Kings Goodness and Justice were so loving and observant of him that they referred thei●… differences to his Arbitration I have often seen them come to him for that purpose to Paris and other places whe●… the King was resident MEMORIALS OF THE LIFE AND DEATH OF H. GROTIUS LONDON Printed by T. Warren for W. Lee And are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Turks-head in Fleetstreet 1654. Memorials of the Authors Life and Death He that hath surv●…yed with a judicious eye the various choyce Learning conteined in this Book cannot but desire to know more of the Author than what the Title shews him That He was The Illustrious Hugo Grotius Men are naturally apt to enquire as He observes and to know as much as they can can of the person whose Actions or writings have any way drawn their attention Who is this man that hath written such things To write the life of this Man perfectly were an enterprize for one more versed both in Books and Men For Me it will be enough to collect out of the Authors own Writings And indeed to describe Grotius who is so able as Grotius and of some of his friends what may represent in some sort so excellent a person to my Readers view and conduce to the perpetuating of his happy Memory among us Englishmen to whom he bare a special Affection And first we will represent that summary of his first years which we find in Meursius 's Athenae Batavae to this effect Hugo Grotius was born at Delf in Holland 4. eid April Anno 1583. He was of an Antient and Noble House His Grandfather of the same name was learned above the model of those darker times and well skild in the three principal Languages Latin Greek and Hebrew His Uncle Cornelius Grotius was professor of the Civil Law at Leyden where he flourished in the good esteem and favour of the best men His Father was Joannes Grotius Curator of that University whose Poems are extant with Lipsius Letters to him and Dousa's verses whose name also hath adorned many learned Mens Books dedicated to Him Being blest with this Hopeful son he used all pains and care in his good education and cherished this great Wit so well that when he was but eight years old viz. Anno 1591. He did fundere versus make verses ex tempore and disputed twice publickly in questions of Philosophy Anno 1598. aet 15. He travelled into France in the train of that incomparable person Joannes Oldenbarneveldius Embassador from the States to the Great Henry and returned honour'd with Royal Bounty and the Friendship of Illustrious Men having before that time begun to set forth notes upon the seven Liberal Arts of Martianus Capella When he had after studied some years at Leyden much endeared unto Scaliger his Father fearing the yong Scholars mind should by the Amenity and delight of human literature and Poesy be drawn away from more profitable employment he was taken off and ascribed among the Advocates at the Hague Anno 1599. and soon after pleaded Causes Yet did not he addict himself so much to that profession but that his Genius led him back and made him often revisit his former studies of Humanity For which he was most dear to the French Embassador Buzanvall to Janus Dousa the Father and many other Persons of Honour About this time the States of Holland began to use his service in penning the History of the most famous War in the whole world Afterward Anno 1607. Commended by the Suffrages of the Courts nominated by the States and elected by the most potent Prince the Admiration of all other Princes Grave Maurice he became Fisci Advocatus Advocate of the Treasury and behaved himself so well in this most weighty office that he received from his superiours a most ample testimony of his diligence and integrity Here perceiving the Trade into India of great Importance to his Countrey that he might stir up the spirits of his Countrymen thereto he wrote a Book De jure Commercii Indicani Again observing after the Truce with the Spaniard the peace of the Common-wealth began to be disturbed by certain dangerous Innovators judging it to be the Duty of a good Patriot to oppose himself against their Designs and to commend unto All the present State he set out a Dissertation entituled De Antiquitate Reipublicae Bataviae After the death of Elias Olden Barneveldius a man not less Noble for his good parts than his family Our Grotius sufferd himself to be chosen into his place Syndic of

Roterdam and so was advanced from the Bar to the Bench. And then was he sent into Great Britain to accommodate the difference about the Indian Trade whence he was dismist not without eminent marks of favour from that King of Learning and Religion and from the most learned and pious men of that Iland together with this most pleasing fruit of his Journey that he there had found the Great Isaac Casaubon whom he reverenced before at a distance and had now enjoyed a more intimate and familiar conversation with him About that time the Church being very sick of the Controversies of Predestination and of the contention of some Pastors with the Magistrates about the right of Church-Government in so much that the States of Holland were by some Contumeliously reproached Our Author thought it his Duty to vindicate the Right of the State and offer his Medicines for the Cure of those Distempers and shew the way to Peace in those and other Differences that disturb the Christian World Thus far out of Athenae Batavae a Book conteining the Lives of the most eminent professors and learned men that have flourished in that University and much tending to the honour of it Wherfore it may be a good precedent for our two famous Universities and for London that perhaps may not improperly be stiled a third Academy and stir them up to do the like For England hath in this last Age produced men as worthy as any other though not so much known abroad But to reflect a little upon what is said already before we go on That so lasting a Wit as Grotius had should be so soon ripe is not a little to be admired Odi puerulum praecoci ingenio saith the Poet of sentences Precocity is a token of a short-liv'd wit but 't was not so in Him Well did a great man in France apply to him what Turnebus formerly had said of Joseph Scaliger that he was portentosi ingenii Juvenis And Daniel Heinsius a great wit too me thinks 't is happy when such men bear a fair respect to one another and do not turn ingenuous Emulation into envious Detraction hath honoured him with this elogy Natura nutrix obstetrixque iquae pri●… Noverca cunctis Grotio Mater fuit Senex Ephebus ille quem Batavia Miratur omnis opt at Hetrusou's sibi Omnisque Gallus Ille dum puer fuit Vir esse coepit Namque relliqui viri Tandem suere Grotius vir natus est Nature the stepdame to us all Grotius may his Mother call That old Yong man Holland admires Italy and all France desires We grow up slowly would you see One born full Man Grotius is He. As he became a man very quickly and did all things like a Man so did he last long and was never idle Another Poet speaks thus of that eminent Pair Grotius and Heinsius Vobis Dei favore nomen obtigit Livore majus senecta temporum Exsorsque lethi Parca nullum jus habet In secla vatum quos Perennitas sacrat Coele stis aura morte deleri nequit Nec interire sanguis Heroum potest Nihil precari majus aut vobis licet Aut saeculo quam possit ut diu frui Tanto Deorum munere O cultum mihi Par colendum semper antiqua fide Sublime coelo laetus efferam caput Votisque nulla summa defiet meis Si me benignus eruditorum chorus Consentiensque postumae gentis favor Tali jugo accensere tertium velit Of our Author's Martianus Capella which he set forth before he was fifteen years old hear the divine Scaliger Hugo soboles Grotius optimi parentis Qui limina nondum tetigit puberis aevi Sed mente senili teneros praevenit annos Magnum meditans auspiciis noluit illis Praeludere quae vesticipum postulat aetas Sed maluit à grandibus inchoare coeptis Nam qui penus est omnis arca displinae Sed quem horridulum injuria squallore vetustas Omni studiorum nitido abdicarat usu Illius ab incude profectus atque amaeno Splendore micans purpurea veste decorus Cultusque novo pumice Martianus exit Cernisne ut ovantem lepido flore juventae Commendet oum gratia luminis recentis Quam sive habuit restituit Grotius illi Seu non habuit contulit hanc Grotius illi The Author himself maks a modest mention of his Capella and some other writings of his about the same time in an Epistle to his great friend and indeed the great friend of all learned men Jacobus Augustus Thuanus I was exceedingly glad saith he when I understood my Capella Aratus and Epithalamium Regium were not only come to your hands but also well taken not that I think those poor endeavours of my Youth do merit the honour of your suffrage but 〈◊〉 I am confident you have rightly esteem'd the Donour's Affection My own opinion of Martianus the other Syntagni is only this that they are capable of some exc●… from my Age for I wrote them when 〈◊〉 was very yong But you are pleas'd to go farther and upon these beginnings ground a judgment of Greater Hope and Growth hereafter This I must confess is my desire this is my greatest ambition t●… be prais'd by the prais-worthy As to the Epithalamium I am sorry many things are mistaken of which I have since ha●… better intelligence for I compos'd it b●… conjecture And I wish I had inserted some things of the Allobrogick War 〈◊〉 the place of some other I know not 〈◊〉 it comes to pass which I find in my self that my yonger writings are condemns by the judgment of my riper years and 〈◊〉 I cease not but have a minde to comp●… what will afterward displease my self have now some pieces done others 〈◊〉 signed which when they are set fo●… shall carefully be conveyed to you 〈◊〉 chief care is at present to collect so●… thing that may be useful to you in your Annals of France believing it to be of much concernment to my Country if the Actions thereof by occasion of the Neighbouring Affairs be eterniz'd in so glorious a Work And I will take the best care I can to answer your desire by informing you what time and place was fatal to the learned Men of our Countrey Happy are you who at your spare hours which I am perswaded are but few can do things above the Abilities of other men who make it their only Business Happy is France govern'd by the Coun●…l of Men that liberally bestow upon the Commonwealth of learning the Remainder of their Time which they can borrow from the publick Affairs of the Kingdom And would I might be so happy once as to enjoy the presence and friendship of such men which I do not despair of especially hoping for your Favour An. ●…601 In another Epistle of the same year 〈◊〉 the same Thuanus wherewith he presented him his Adamus Exul concerning which by the way take this of Janus