It will be necessary, however, for the proper understanding of subsequent events that he should be familiar with portions of the Advocate's confidential letters.
"Sound well the gentleman you wot of," said Barneveld, "and other personages as to the conclusive opinions over there.

The course of the propositions does not harmonize with what I have myself heard out of the King's mouth at other times, nor with the reports of former ambassadors.
I cannot well understand that the King should, with such preciseness, condemn all other opinions save those of Calvin and Beza.

It is important to the service of this country that one should know the final intention of his Majesty." And this was the misery of the position.

For it was soon to appear that the King's definite and final intentions, varied from day to day.

It was almost humorous to find him at that moment condemning all opinions but those of Calvin and Beza in Holland, while his course to the strictest confessors of that creed in England was so ferocious.
But Vorstius was a rival author to his Majesty on subjects treated of by both, so that literary spite of the most venomous kind, stirred into theological hatred, was making a dangerous mixture.