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Title: The Life of Hugo Grotius

Author: Charles Butler

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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Life of Hugo Grotius, by Charles Butler

THE

LIFE

OF

HUGO GROTIUS:

WITH

BRIEF MINUTES

OF THE

CIVIL, ECCLESIASTICAL, AND LITERARY

HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS.

BY CHARLES BUTLER, ESQ.

OF LINCOLN'S-INN.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.

M.DCCC.XXVI.

Luke Hansard & Sons,
near Lincoln's-Inn Fields, London.

TO

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS

THE DUKE OF SUSSEX,

THIS BIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT

OF

ONE OF THE MOST AMIABLE AND
RESPECTABLE DEFENDERS OF THE NOBLE
CAUSE OF CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY,

OF WHICH

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS HAS UNIFORMLY
BEEN A CONSTANT AND POWERFUL
ADVOCATE,

IS

(WITH HIS PERMISSION),

MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,

BY

THE AUTHOR,

Great Ormond Street,
29 Sept. 1826.

In the following pages we shall attempt to present our Readers, with a Life of HUGO GROTIUS; and MINUTES OF THE CIVIL, ECCLESIASTICAL, AND LITERARY HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS.

In writing these pages, we principally consulted his life, written in the French language, by M. de Burigni, Member of the French Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres; an English translation of it, was published in 1754, in one Volume, 8vo.;

Hugonis Grotii Manes, ab iniquis obtrectationibus vindicati; 2 vols. 8vo. 1727: the author of this work is said to be M. Lehman;

The article Grotius, in Bayle's and Chalmers's Dictionaries;

And many of the letters in Hugonis Grotii Epistolæ, published at Amsterdam in 1687, in one volume, folio; and many in the Præstantium et Eruditorum Virorum Epistolæ Ecclesiasticæ, published at Amsterdam in 1684, in one volume, 4to.

For what we have said on GERMANY AND THE NETHERLANDS, we principally consulted,

Schmidt's Histoire des Allemands;

Pfeffell's Histoire Abregé de l'Allemagne, 2 vols. 8vo.;

Mr. Durnford's excellent Translation, of Professor Pütter's Historical Developement, of the Political History of the German Empire; 3 vols. 8vo.;

And Hugonis Grotii Annales, et Historiæ de Rebus Belgicis, one vol. 8vo. Amsterdam, 1658.

In our account of the troubles on Arminianism, and the Synod of Dort; we principally consulted, the French Abridgment, in 3 vols. 8vo. of Brand's History of the Netherlands, and Grotius's excellent Apology:

In every part of the work, we have consulted other publications;-three only of these we shall mention;

The three Bibliothècques of Le Clerc;

The Life of Arminius, and

Calvinism and Arminianism Compared, by Mr. James Nichols.

From these materials the following pages have been composed: they may be found to contain,-

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER

A.D. 800-911.

I.	1. Boundaries, and Devolution of the Empire of Germany, during the Carlovingian dynasty
	2. State of Literature, in the time of Charlemagne
	3. Decline of Literature, under the Descendants of Charlemagne

A.D. 911-1024.

II.	1. Boundaries, and Devolution of the empire of Germany, during the Saxon dynasty
	2. State of Literature, during the Saxon dynasty

A.D. 1024-1138.

III.	1. Boundaries, and State of Germany, during the Franconian dynasty
	2. State of German Literature, during the Franconian dynasty

A.D. 1138-1519

IV.	1. State of Germany, from the beginning of the Suabian dynasty, until the accession of the Emperor Charles V.
	2. State of German Literature, during this period

A.D. 1138-1519

V.	1. Antient, and modern Geography of the Netherlands
	2. The formation, of the different provinces of the Netherlands, into one State
	3. Brief view, of the History of the Netherlands, until the acknowledgment of the Seven United Provinces, by the Spanish monarch
	4. Their constitution, and principal officers


CHAPTER I.

A.D. 1582-1597.

BIRTH, AND EDUCATION OF GROTIUS


CHAPTER II

A.D. 1597-1610.

GROTIUS, EMBRACES THE PROFESSION OF THE LAW


CHAPTER III.

THE EARLY PUBLICATIONS, OF GROTIUS


CHAPTER IV.

HISTORICAL MINUTES, OF THE UNITED PROVINCES, FROM THEIR DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, TILL THE ARMINIAN CONTROVERSY


CHAPTER V.

A.D. 1610-1617.

THE FEUDS, IN THE UNITED PROVINCES, BETWEEN THE DISCIPLES OF CALVIN, AND THE DISCIPLES OF ARMINIUS, UNTIL THE SYNOD OF DORT


CHAPTER VI.

A.D. 1618.

THE SYNOD OF DORT


CHAPTER VII.

A.D. 1618-1621.

TRIAL AND IMPRISONMENT OF GROTIUS; HIS ESCAPE FROM PRISON


CHAPTER VIII.

A.D. 1622

JAMES I.		VORSTIUS


CHAPTER IX.

A.D. 1621-1634.

GROTIUS, AFTER HIS ESCAPE FROM PRISON, UNTIL HIS APPOINTMENT OF AMBASSADOR, FROM SWEDEN, TO THE COURT OF FRANCE


CHAPTER X.

SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL WORKS, OF GROTIUS

1.	New edition of Stobæus
2.	His treatise	de Jure Belli et Pacis
3.	----	de Veritate Religionis Christianæ
4.	----	de Jure summarum potestatum circa sacra.--And Commentatio ad loca quædam Novi Testamenti, quæ de Antichristo agunt, aut agere videntur
5.	His Commentaries on the Scriptures
6.	His other works


CHAPTER XI.

A.D. 1634-1645.

GROTIUS, AS AMBASSADOR FROM THE KINGDOM OF SWEDEN, TO THE COURT OF FRANCE


CHAPTER XII.

THE RELIGIOUS SENTIMENTS OF GROTIUS; SOME OTHER OF HIS WORKS,

1.	Subsequent History of Arminianism
2.	Grotius's religious sentiments
3.	Projects of religious Pacification


CHAPTER XIII.

THE DEATH OF GROTIUS


CHAPTER XIV.

A.D. 1680-1815.

HISTORICAL MINUTES OF THE REVOLUTIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE SEVEN UNITED PROVINCES, FROM THE DEATH OF WILLIAM II. TILL THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS.

1.	William III.
2.	John William Count of Nassau Dietz, 1702-1711; William IV. 1711-1751
3.	From the death of William IV. till the erection of the Kingdom of the Netherlands


APPENDIX I.

Some Account of the Formularies, Confessions of Faith, or Symbolic Books, of the Roman-Catholic, Greek, and principal Protestant Churches


APPENDIX II.
On the Reunion of Christians

I.
II.
II. 1.
II. 2.
II. 3.
II. 4.
III.
III. 1.
III. 2.
III. 3.
III. 4.
IV.
V.


FOOTNOTES.

The Life of Hugo Grotius / With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands

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The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Life of Hugo Grotius

THE

LIFE

OF

HUGO GROTIUS:

WITH

BRIEF MINUTES

OF THE

CIVIL, ECCLESIASTICAL, AND LITERARY

HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS.

BY CHARLES BUTLER, ESQ.

OF LINCOLN'S-INN.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.

M.DCCC.XXVI.

CONTENTS

THE

LIFE

OF

HUGO GROTIUS,

WITH MINUTES OF THE CIVIL, ECCLESIASTICAL,
AND LITERARY HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS.

The Life of Hugo Grotius / With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands

About This Book

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Life of Hugo Grotius

THE

LIFE

OF

HUGO GROTIUS:

WITH

BRIEF MINUTES

OF THE

CIVIL, ECCLESIASTICAL, AND LITERARY

HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS.

BY CHARLES BUTLER, ESQ.

OF LINCOLN'S-INN.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.

M.DCCC.XXVI.

CONTENTS

THE

LIFE

OF

HUGO GROTIUS,

WITH MINUTES OF THE CIVIL, ECCLESIASTICAL, AND LITERARY HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS.

WITH MINUTES OF THE CIVIL, ECCLESIASTICAL,
AND LITERARY HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS.