"Perhaps, by writing to reconcile such as entertain very opposite sentiments, I shall," says Grotius, "offend both parties: but, if that should so happen, I shall comfort myself with the example of him, who said, If I please men, I am not the servant of Christ." [Sidenote: XII. 3. His Project of Religious Pacification.] "Grotius," says Burigni, "content with gratifying his pacific desires, expected his reward from posterity. This he clearly intimates in the following verses, written by him on the subject: "_Accipe, sed placidé, quæ, si non optimo, certé Espressit nobis non mala pacis amor. Et tibi dic, nostro labor hic si displicet avo, A gratia pretium posteritate feret_." The projects of religious pacification did not cease with Grotius: several divines of distinction adopted it; and attempted, some with more prudence and ability than others, to carry it into effect. The principal of these are noticed in the second appendix to the present work. None succeeded: One description of persons, who engaged in this design, was denominated _Syncretists_, or _Calixtines_, from _George Calixtus_ their leader: the other, from their calling men from controversy to holiness of life, received the appellation of _Pietists_: A third party,--perhaps we may style them, the _Ultra-orthodox_,--more hostile to the former than to the latter--arose in opposition to both, and accused them of sacrificing the doctrines of faith to a mistaken zeal for union and sanctity.[075] It is certain[076] that the friends of union too often erred in this,--that they aimed rather at an uniformity of _terms_ than of _sentiments_; and thus seemed satisfied, when they engaged the contending parties to use the same _words and phrases_, though their _real difference_ in opinion remained the same. This could not be justified: it tended evidently to extinguish truth and honour, and to introduce equivocation. CHAPTER XIII. THE DEATH OF GROTIUS. 1645 [Sidenote: CHAP. XIII. 1645.]