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A25853	The nevv heresie of the Jesuits publickly maintain'd at Paris in the Colledge of Clermont, by conclusions, printed 12 Decemb., 1661, denounced to all the bishops of France / translated out of the French original.; Nouvelle hérésie des Jésuites. English	Arnauld, Antoine, 1612-1694.	1662 (1662)	Wing A3730; ESTC R15927	16,007	24

certain facts which we are sure were never revealed by God as whether such Propositions be found in a Book compos'd in the 17 th AGE These are not consequences drawn by others out of their Doctrine They themselves infer them and make them passe for Catholick Assertions according to the Title of their Conclusions There is then in the Church an infallible Judge of controversies of Faith even out of a General Council as well for questions of right as of fact And that we may not doubt of their meaning by questions of Fact though the word it self of Fact taken in opposition to that of Law or Right doth sufficiently clear it they alleage for an example and a consequence of this new infallibility of Jesus Christ communicated to the Pope that after the foresaid Constitutions one may beleive with Divine Faith that Jansenius his book is heretical and that the five Propositions are truly this Authors Vnde post Innocentij X Alexandri VII Constitutiones fide divina credi p●test librum cui titulus est Jansenij Augustinus esse haereticum quinque propositiones ex eo decerptas esse Jansenii Behold the Proposition which they publickly advance in the face of the greatest City of the World nor will it be amisse to take notice of the origin and date thereof For these same men that now so boldly maintain it had for some time agoe laid the seeds of it in their other writings and it was easily discernable that their whole conduct was to be built upon this error They had severally exposed the Inferences in one place and the Principles in an other but still with certain windings and intricacy of words that might as occasion served be a cloak to them It is now in fine that they discover to the Church without any maske what they pretend to establish Let the whole Church then hear and take notice that the 12 of December in the year 1661. was the day on which the Jesuits brought to light this monstrous opinion whereof they had been so long in labour that this was the day on which they proposed as a Catholick assertion that the Pope speaking out of his Chair hath the same infallibilitie with Jesus Christ not only in questions of Right but also in those of Fact and consequently that one may believe with Divine Faith that the five propositions are the opinions of Jansenius It is not conceived needful My Lords to use many words to make appear that there is not here a simple Error nor a simple Heresie but a Source of Errors and as one may say a General Heresie which overthrows all Religion For your Lordships know that the first and principal ground of Christian Religion is this that our Faith doth not depend on the word of Men but on the word of God who is truth it self that this is it which makes it inconcussible and wholly Divine whereas it would be purely humane did it rely upon any Authority lesse than That of God or that we could not bear the like Testimony to our selves which St. Paul did to the Christians of Thessalona●a to have received the word which God was pleased to propose to us by his Church not as the word of Men but as the word of God as it tr●ly is Non ut verbum hominum sed sicut est vere verbum Dei All whatsoever is comprehended under the notion of Faith saith St. Bernard is founded upon the solid truth perswaded us by the Oracles of God confirmed by miracles and consecrated by the Child-bearing of a Virgin by the bloud of our Redeemer and the glory of Jesus raised from the dead Totum quod in Fide est certâ ac solidâ veritate subnixum oraculis miraculis divinitus persuasum stabilitum consecratum partu Virginis sanguine Redemptoris gloriâ Resurgentis Whoever then saith A thing not revealed nor attested by God as that certain Propositions are truly such an Authors of these later ages is an object of Divine Faith because the Pope hath declared it either establishes for the ground of Faith an authority purely human and the word of a man which is as much as to overthrow Faith or makes a God of the Pope and of his word a divine word and Holy Scripture which is not only an Heresie but a horrible impietie and a kinde of Idolatry For Idolatrie doth not consist onely in giving to man the name of God but much more in ascribing to him the attributes proper to God and the honour which is due only to him Now this submission of our understandings and intellective faculties implied in each Act of Faith is nothing els than the adoration which we exhibite to the primary Truth and so whoever pays it to the word of Man what rank soever he holds in the Church whoever professes he believes a thing with Divine Faith on no other motive then because a Man hath said it places a Man in the Throne of God transferres the honour due only to the Creator to a Creature and for as much as lies in him makes a kinde of Idol of the Vicar of Jesus Christ And that my Lords which will give you a greater horror of this Impiety is this that the Authors thereof imagin'd they should be able to foster it under favour of the respect which all the Catholicks bear the Pope and that no man would have the boldness to oppose it for fear of incurring his displeasure whereas on the contrary could any one commit a greater outrage against the first Minister of Jesus Christ then to imagine he could be honoured by a Blasphemy so injurious to Jesus Christ that it could be pleasing to him to be made equall to his Master by sharing with him the same Infallibility which he possesseth and that men should yield to his words that Supream Worship of Divine Faith which is due to God alone S. Paul and S. Barnabe perceiving the people went about to give them the same honours which they were wont to pay to their false Gods tore in pieces their garments thereby to express the extream displeasure which they resented and cast themselves into the midst of the Assembly to hinder it And we may with reason believe that the Pope himself were he truly advertised of this horrible excess would not fail to imploy his whole Authority to suppress these profane worshippers and would abhor it as a crime able to cause the loss of himself in the sight of God to give way to the least compliance in so detestable a flattery He would with trembling reflect on the just vengeance of God upon that last King of the Jewes for only suffering the tumultuary acclamations of a giddie brain'd people who hearing him speak cryed out It was the voice of a God and not of a man Dei voces non hominis For the Scripture teacheth us that immediatly the Angel of our Lord stroke him because he had not given to God the honor due

one that did not impugne a point of Faith For example who is there now a dayes that doth not esteem the Letters imputed to the first Popes not only not to be Theirs but contrariwise a Rapsody collected by some Forger and Impostor And notwithstanding both Pope Nicholas commanded the Bishops of France to receive them and his Successors inserted them into the book of Decretals which by their Apostolical authority they proposed to serve for a rule to the whole Church wherein they speak at least as much out of their Chair as in their ordinary Bulls How then can one without Impiety believe that these letters are suppositions as now all the ablest Church-men do even the Jesuits themselves if there be an obligation to hold the same Infallibilitie in the Popes as in Jesus Christ even in matters of Fact would the infallibility of Christ permit that one should propose to the Church false pieces instead of true ones There are scarce any matters of Fact of more importance to the Church then to know whether a Council be General or no whether Lawful or illegittimate Neverthelesse did the Kingdom of France become Heretick for not acknowledging the Council of Florence to be Oecumenical notwithstanding all the Bulls of Eugenius the fourth and all his declarations prefixed at the head of this Council to oblige the whole world to receive it as a General one Did the Cardinal of Lorraine fall into Heresie when he openly declared to Pope Pius the fourth his and the whole Kingdome of France's opinion on this subject in the following tearms For as much as concerns the last of the Titles to be given to our Holy Father taken out of the Council of Florence I cannot deny but that I am a French man bred up in the Vniversity of Paris in which it is the common Tenet that the authority of a Council is above the Pope and all that bold the contrary are censured as Hereticks That in France the Council of Constance is held Oecumenical in all its parts That they adhere to That of Basile and hold That of Florence neither for a Lawful nor a General One and it were an easier work to kill all French men then to draw them from their said perswasion This Letter which the Cardinal of Lorrain writ to his Secretary at Rome to be communicated to Pope Pius the 4 th is to be seen in the collection of Memorials concerning the Council of Trent published by the deceased Mr. Du Puis and printed by Cramoisi During the first disagreement betwixt Pope Eugenius the 4 th and the Council of Basile he put forth a most authentick Bull by which he declared that he transferr'd this Council to Bolognia and that all those who should maintain this Translation was just and lawful were both out of the Truth and Catholick Faith Fuit igitur a Basiliensi civitate legitima pro tunc nostra Concilii dissolutio asserentes contra sunt penitus ab omni veritate fide Catholica alieni All which notwithstanding the Fathers of the Council of Basile maintaining that this Translation was injust and invalid Eugenius was forced by another Bull equally authentick to acknowledg that the said Translation was in effect null and that the Council had been duely held from its beginning to that very time Both these Bulls are to be seen in Raynald the first in the year 1433. the other in the year 1434. Now shall the one and the other of these Bulls be Articles of Faith and shall we be obliged to believe that the same Council was at the same time an unlawful conventicle and a Lawful Synod of the whole Church assembled in the name of the Holy Ghost The same Raynald makes mention of an other Bull of Eugenius the 4 th against the Cardinal of Arles who presided over the Council of Basile where he is called Iniquitatis Alumnus atque perditionis filius If the voice of Popes in the judgements which they make of persons in their Bulls ought to be esteemed as infallible as that of Jesus Christ we should be obliged to look upon this Cardinal as a most wicked person but what if God hath judged otherwise and if from obliging us to abhor him as a Child of Iniquity and a Son of Perdition he would have us bear respect and veneration to him as one of the Blessed confirming his Saintity by publick Miracles authorized by an other Pope to wit Clement the Seventh who by an authentick Bull has enrolled him in the number of the Blessed declaring not that he did penance after having been a Son of Iniquity but that he had ever a celestial chast and immaculate life as it is to bee seen in the Bull of his Beatification reported at length by Ciaconius These few examples may sufficiently shew the falsity of the Jesuits pretension But without seeking further the very Authors themselves of this new Doctrine fall into Heresie by the undeniable sequele of their error For in these very same Conclusions they maintain that Pope Honorius in his Letters taught nothing but what was most consonant to the Catholick Faith touching the two wills and two operations in Jesus Christ Duas in Christo voluntates operationes fuisse profitemur nec aliud a nobis sensit Honorius dum operationem Christi unicam esse scripsit Now if it be a point of Faith as the Jesuits pretend that the Book of Jansenius is Heretical and the five Propositions are his because two Popes have affirmed it and that one ought to consider what they say with the same regard as if Jesus Christ had said it with how much more reason may one say the same of the letters of Pope Honorius which were both strictly examined condemned and burnt by the Authority of a General Council of the whole Church in which the Pope presided by his Legats and which in this very point was confirmed by two following General Councils and by a great number of Popes For if ever Popes speak out of their chair it is then chiefly when they speak in General Councils and in the confirmation of them by their Apostolical power And so consequently one cannot doubt but that Leo the second spoke out of his Chair when in divers Letters which he wrote in confirmation of the sixth Oecumenical Council he in particular ratified the Condemnation of Honorius pronouncing an Anathema against him because in stead of inlightning the Church these are his words by the Doctrine of Apostolical Tradition he suffered it to be defiled by a profane corruption Qui hanc Apostolicam Ecclesiam non Apostolicâ Traditionis doctrinâ lustravit sed profanâ traditione immaculari permisit And consequently if when the Popes speak out of their chair of what matter soever they speak whether of right or of Fact they injoy the same Infallibility with Jesus Christ and that all they so pronounce is an Article of Faith it ought to be a point of Faith that the Letters of