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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41769	The true idea of Jansenisme both historick and dogmatick. By T. G.	Gale, Theophilus, 1628-1678.; Owen, John, 1616-1683.	1669 (1669)	Wing G152; ESTC R218792	68,669	204

Pontificat by an express constitution published by us on this design to put a period to the Heresie of Cornelius Jansenius which spread it self principally in France and which after it had been well-nigh stif●ed by Innocent 10 th our Predecessor of happie memorie ceased not as a Serpent whose head is broken to make fresh efforts and to appear willing to save it self by its ordinary turnings and windings But as the enemy of mankinde has an infinitie of Artifices to hinder the succes of good designs our endeavours whose only but was to oblige all those who have erred to re-enter into the way of salvation have not had that issue we desired albeit our desires have been happily seconded by the pains and industrie with which our Venerable Brethren the Archbishops and Bishops of the Kingdom of France have applyed themselves so far as they could to cause the said Apostolick Constitutions to be executed and by the singular pietie of our very dear Son in our Lord the most Christian King who has for the same purpose afforded us the succour of his hand with an extraordinary vigour and constance Moreover the most Christian King being induced by the zeal he has for Religion to remonstrate to us by his Ambassadour that the best remedie to extirpate the restes of this contagious M●ladie is to cause all the World to sign one Formularie founded on our Autoritie In pursuit whereof we command that all Ecclesiastiques c. to subscribe the following Formularie IN. submit my self to the Apostoli●● Constitution of Innocent X. dated Ma● 31. 1653. and to the Constitution of Alexander 7 th dated Oct. 16. 1656. the chi● Bishops and I do with a sincere mind re●ject and condemn the V Propositions t●●ken out of Cornelius Jansenius's Boo● named Augustinus and in the sense intended by the same Author as the Ap●-stolick● seat has by the said Constitution condemned them And thus I sware G● so help me and these holy Evangels 〈◊〉 God Given at Rome Feb. 15. 1665. This Bull was April 29. 1665. Sti● Novo ratified by a Declaration of th● King of France enjoyning the executio● of the same But the Popes Nuncio imposing the said Bull on the Ecclesiastick● of France without regard to the King● Autoritie there issued forth May 6● 1665. an Arrest of the Parliament 〈◊〉 Paris prohibiting the said Bull c. Whereupon the Arch-bishop of Paris to comprimize the matter 'twixt the Pope ●nd King enjoyns the Signature of ●he Formularie by his own Pow●r The Molinists are full of indignation ●nd passionate Invectives against the Jansenists and all that incline to them whereof we have a sufficient instance in their severitie against one of their own Societie P. de la Croix Ref●t de la Fausse Relat. du P. Ferrier cap. 12. who testifying more affection for the Doctrine of S. Austin than for that of Molina was much persecuted by his Brethren the Jesuits and notwithstanding his innocencie and candor of deportment and his more than fortie years profession in their Societie he was shut up in a cruel Prison at La Flesche where he ended his dayes none but God and themselves knows how The Jansenists §. 22. The Jansenists multiplication and acceptation with serious Papists and Protestants notwithstanding their great persecution to this very day have many and great friends amongst the more serious and sober of the Nobles Clergy and People of France Many of the Bishops incline towards them who as I now hear refuse to sign the Formularie for the condemnation of Jansenius Amongst the Regulars som● whole Covents yea whole Orders a● levened with Jansenisme though thei● Zeal be not so warm as to quit thei● preferment for their Principles Th● Peres de L' Oratoire or Preaching Fri●ars are generally Jansenists as it appears by their famous Theses of Efficacious Grace which they dedicated 〈◊〉 the General Assemblie of the Clergie 〈◊〉 France An. 1657. wherein they asse● that sufficient Grace does infallibly wa● its effect whereas efficacious Grace do● infal●ibly produce it in every state Th● Dominicans also symbolize very far 〈◊〉 not in every point with the Jansenists as has been before shewen though they dare not profess any considerable favour or kindness towards them but rathe● some of them out of a spirit of faction or Interest fall in with the Molinists Yea not only in France but also in Flanders Jansenisme has taken very deep rooting especially in the Universities of Louvain and Doway where the Jesuits are as much hated as by their professed enemies the Jansenists The Protestants generally have a great favour and kindness for the Jansenists This Conference was at Caen Feb. 〈◊〉 1664. 'T is not long since that Mr. Bochart Pastor at Caen discoursing with an English Gentleman about the down-fall of Antichrist gave this as one reason of the approach thereof viz. from the multiplying of the Jansenists and the Orthodoxalitie of their Opinions c. And albeit the Jansenists hitherto have not dared to professe any great affection for or inclination towards those of the Reformed Religion yet 't is conceived they want it not but rather opportunitie Jansenists in his August Tom. 3. de Grat. l. 8. c. 21. in answer to this Objection that his Doctrine was Calvinistick saith All things that hereticks teach are not heretical If Calvin agree with Austin and the ancient Fathers in any point we must not be angry with Austin for Calvins sake but congratulate Calvin for Austins sake I once also met with this expression in one of their Papers where being accused of Calvinisme they reply thus If Calvin and Luther be in the right let them be absolved rather than that the Truth should be condemned The great Crime the Jesuits accuse the Jansenists of is their symbolizing with the Calvinists Wherefore somewhile since the Molinists pictured the Jansenist with his arms open embracing Calvin The Jansenists to vindicate themselves from this Imputation now and then write a book against the Calvinists Notwithstanding the Popes Bull §. 23. the Kings Declaration and the Archbishop of Paris's Ordinance for the Signature of the Formularie great numbers of the Ecclesiasticks of France both Secular and Regular have refused to subscribe the same Yea there are four Bishops who have even till the end of the last Summer 1668. dissented herefrom and by the interposure of other Prelates have brought the Pope to be satisfied that they co●sent to the condemnation of the V Propositions formerly sentenced without any mention of the Books of Jansenius to which they have given their obedience and accordingly subscribed Hence as I hear the Jansenists by the Kings interposure are again restored to their Dignities and preferments in the Sorbon and else-where The last news we hear of the Jansenists is their consultations about setting up a Patriarch in France which the Popes Nuncio complained of to the King as that which would bring great Detriment to his Holines PART II. The

Jansenius is reduced to this Proposition common to all the Thomists Omnis gratia Christi est efficax alicu●us effectûs ad quem prxime ordinatur quem Deus absoluta voluntate intendit viz. every Grace of Christ 〈◊〉 efficacious of some effect unto which it 〈◊〉 nextly ordained and which God by hi● absolute will doth intend But to declare their conformitie to the Thomists more ●ully Mr. de Lalane gave the Bishop of Comenge the Articles of their Doctrine touching the five Propositions Notwithstanding these Concessions of the Jansenists §. 19. The breaking off the Treatie of the Jansenists Apology the Molinists were not satisfied but began to flie off unto their old demands peradventure from a praevision they had of an accord betwixt their King and Pope for a signing the Formularie and condemning the sense of Jansenius on the five Propositions This the Jansenists judged a very hard and unreasonable demand 1. Because it was formally and expresly against the main Praeliminary Article granted in order to the Treatie 2. If they could adde they have signed the Formularie c. they had not needed any such Treatie for accommodement for they should then have been esteemed as good Catholicks as their adversaries the Molinists 3. They judged it too great tyrannie to make the peace of the Church depend upon a matter purely of fact and not of faith For say they suppose the Disciples of St. Austin asserting that the five propositions condemned were not to be found in Jansenius's book nor yet condemned in his sense should be deceived in this their Interpretation of Jansenius yet seeing they condemned the five Propositions as well as others their Error was not in a question of Faith but purely of fact such as could not bespeak them Hereticks For adde they the common light of Reason as well as Faith teacheth the most simple that two things essentially separate viz. a particular fact and a Doctrine of Faith may also be separated in the creance of Believers and therefore there is no shadow to imagine but that one may assent that the Doctrine of the five Propositions is Haeretian without assenting that they are to be found in the Book of Jansenius as if the haeresie of the Doctrine should depend on Jansenius or that it should be haeresie no where but in his book Thus the Jansenists apologize c. But the Molinists adhering violently to their demands for the signing the Formularie c. the Treatie broke off The Jansenists to purge themselves §. 20. The Jansenists Vindication by the Bishop of Com●nge his Letter to the King after this Treatie drew up certain Articles which I suppose were the same with those they offered in the Treatie containing the explication of their own sentiments on the five condemned propositions These Articles they sent to Rome with their submission to the Pope not as they phrase it a submission of Faith but only a submission of Respect or Discipline which notwithstanding was acceptable to the Pope After this Mr. De Lalane and Mr. Girard presented a Declaration to the King by the hand of the Bishop of Comenge containing the Abridgement of what they had offered in the Treatie and what was comprehended in their Articles sent to Rome This Declaration having been condemned by some of the Bishops is vindicated by a Letter from the Bishop of Comenge ●o the King dated Jan. 21. 1664. Thus I avow Sir that it seemed to me after I had obliged those whom they call Jansenists to declare their sense there could not be any more of heresie or hereticks in the Church the door being shut both to Error and opiniatretie In effect Sir in those Conferences which the Sieurs the Abbot De Lalane and Girard had in the names of all those who are engaged in this cause with P. Ferrier the Jesuite they were reduced to declare so neatly what was their Doctrine on the subject of the five Propositions condemned wherein all that is called Jansenisme is comprehended as also to speak so precisely the language of the Thomists which is received in the Church that there cannot remain any thing of Errour in their Dogme In such sort Sir that on the one side making them to speak as the Catholick Schools speak and on the other side they having submitted themselves to have no other sentiments but those of the Holy See there remains not more of Error or of Opiniatretie Now their last Declaration which I had the honour to present to your Majesty signed by 〈◊〉 Sieurs de Lalane and Girard is but 〈◊〉 Abregement of all that we have do● in nine months travail They rene● in this Act the Assurance which the have given me and the See by me 〈◊〉 to have any other sentiments on 〈◊〉 five Propositions but what a● contained in their Articles and t●● submission which they have made 〈◊〉 these very Articles to the judgement● his Ho●ines For this Declaration 〈◊〉 relative to the Articles which we● sent and submitted to the Pope an● which contain the sentiments of the● Theologiens on the five Propositions It is true Sir that they place not 〈◊〉 the same rank the submission which they render to the Definition of Dogmes and that which they render to the Definition of particular facts because the one is a submission of Faith and the other is a submission of Respect and 〈◊〉 Discipline Things being thus dismingled and differenced Sir your Majesty may when you please give peace to the Church of France in pursuit of the generous dess●in which your pietie has given you to 〈◊〉 c. Thus the Bishop of Comenge in behalf of the Jansenists The Molinists since the Treatie §. 21. The Molinists persecution of the Jansenists have been very active and pressing on the King for his Declaration against all such as will not sign the Formularie and condemnation of Jansenius's book The Jansenists have not been wanting to give their reasons against such rigorous procedures affirming That there was not as yet any ordinance of the Church obliging thereto neither was this Formularie approved by the Pope or Bishops yea that the Jesuits themselves were forced to abandon it as before The Jansenists also publisht in the year 1664. certain Apologies for themselves but all could not secure them against the unwearied endeavours of their adversaries the Molinists who obtained the Popes Bull for the imposing the Formularies as also the Kings Confirmation of the same The Popes Bull runs as it follows ALexander Bishop Servant of Servants of God for perpetual memorie The Reason of Apostolick Government by Divine Providence committed to us though undeserving requires that we applie our whole mind and care so far as we may in the Lord unto such matters chiefly as are most conducible to the conservation and propagation of the Catholick Religion to the salvation of souls and to the repose of Believers 'T was from the Intuition hereof that we endeavoured the Second year of our