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 i36 A L T I N G. Vit. Jacob! rets was cenfured for ailing contrary to the laws of charity Alui:g> and moderation. The l.'tter would not fubmit to thisjudge- ment, nor accept of the filence which was propofed. He inft'U-d on the caufe being heard before the confiftories, the cl rifles, and the fynods ; but the heads would not confent to t'iis ; forbidding all writings, either for or againlt the judgement of the divines of Leydcn : and thus the work of Des Mareis, intitled, " Audi et alteram p-irtern," was fuppreffed. This conied made a great noife, and might have been attended with bad confequences, when Des Ma rets was called to Lev- den ; but hj clieJ at Gronjtigen before he could take pOiTef- fion of that employment. There was Come fort of rc.onci- liation made betwixt him and Alting before his death : a clergyman pf (Groningen feeing D.-s Marets pail all hopes of recovery, propofed it to him ; and having his confent, made the fame proppfai to Alcing, who anfwered, that the iilence he had observed, notwithftanding the clamours and writings of his adverfary, (hewed his peaceable difpoficion ; that he Y/aS ready to come to an agr< caient upon reasonable terms, bu: that he required lati^c/lion for the injurious reports fpicad agair.il his honour and reputation; and that he could not conceive how any one fljould dehre his friendfhip, wbilft he thought him Inch a man as he had reprefentt-d him to be. Ti.e per ton, who acteJ as mediator, fome time after re turned, with another clergyman, to Ahing, and obtained from him a formulary of the fatisfadtion he dtiired. This formulary was not liked by Des Marets, who diew up ano- ther, but this did not pleafe Ailing : at laft, however, after fome alterations, the reconciliation was efFe^ied j the parties only retraited the perfonal injuries, and as to the accufations in point of dodrine, the accufer lelc them to the judgement of the church. Alting however thought he had reafon to complain, even ;if. ! er he was dcli- vered rrom fo formidable an adverlarv. Kis complaint was occafj, ned by the laft edition of Des M^rets's fyfteni, in which he was very ili treated : he laid, h>s adverlary fhould have left no monumems of tht-quar.-el ; and that his rtc^n- tilidtion had not been fincere, iince ,he had not fupprefied fuch an injurious book '-Tgy were continually mur- rn,uiing apr-ainft what they alien innovations; but the (ecu- O O lar powf r wifely calmed thoL j fiorms, which the convoca- tioiib and fynods would have raifed, threatening to interdict thofe who fhould revive the cju.:r.el. Alting enjoyed but little health the laft three years of his life j and being at feized with a violent fever, was carried off in nine