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A87271	The pope's bull against the archbishop of Cambray's book, in full length Innocent XII. Pope, ad perpetuam rei memoriam.; Cum alias. English	Catholic Church. Pope (1691-1700 : Innocent XII)	1700 (1700)	Wing I204C; ESTC R43649	3,406	4

The POPE's Bull AGAINST The Arch-Bishop of Cambray's Book in full length INNOCENT XII POPE Ad Perpetuam Rei Memoriam WHEREAS we have formerly been Advertised of the Publication of a Certain Book Written in French and Entituled The Explication of the Maxims of the Saints Concerning the Internal Life by Monsieur Francis de Salignac Fenelon Arch-Bishop of Cambray c. And whereas so great and frequent Complaints have been raised in France of the Unsoundness of the Doctrin Contained in the said Book as requires the timely Assistance of our Pastoral Care we have therefore Committed the said Book to be Examined seriously as the weightiness of the Subject seemed to require to several of our Reverend Brethren the Cardinals and other Doctors of Divinity Accordingly in obedience to our Commands after they by a constant and exact Enquiry had discussed several Propositions taken out of that Book in several Congregations they have Certified to us both by word of Mouth and by Writing what was their Opinion of each particular Having therefore heard their Sentiments and being willing to prevent as far as is allowed us by a Power from on High the dangers of Christ's Flock Entrusted to Us by the Eternal Shepherd We by our own proper Motion out of our own certain Knowledge and Mature deliberation and by the Plenitude of our Apostolical Power do by these Presents Condemn and Disallow the aforesaid Book wheresoever in whatsoever Language or by whatsoever Edition or Version hitherto Printed or hereafter to be Printed because by the Reading and Perusal thereof the Faithful may by degrees be drawn into Errors already Condemned by the Catholick Church and because it contains such Propositions as are by an Express or implyed Sense Rash Scandalous Harsh Offensive to Pious Ears Pernicious in Practice and respectively Erroneous We further prohibit and forbid all and every the Faithful from Printing Discribing Reading Keeping and Perusing the said Book under pain of Excommunication ipso facto without any further Declaration We will and by vertue of Our Apostolical Authority Command that all persons who have the said Book in their Possession do forth with upon sight of this our Letter deliver up and wholly Lodge it in the Hands of the Ordinaries of the Respective places or of the Inquisitors The Propositions in the said Book contained on which we thought fit to pass the Censure of Our Apostolical Sentence Translated out of French into Latin are in Substance as follows viz. 1. There is an habitual State of Divine Love which is pure Charity unmixed with any Alloy of self-Interest Neither the fear of Punishments nor the desire of Rewards have any thing to do with it Nor is God any longer Loved for Merit for Perfection or for any Felicity to be met with in Loving him 2. In the State of a Contemplative or Unitive Life all Motives arising from Hope and Fear are laid aside 3. That which is Essential in the Direction of a Soul to this Love is nothing else but to follow Step by Step the Grace of GOD with Infinit Patience Precaution and Exactness Men must keep within those bounds that so GOD may be left to be the Sole Agent and not lead them to Pure Love till he begins by the Internal Unction to open the heart for this Word which is so hard a Saying to Souls as yet full of themselves as may either Scandalize them or cause some disturbance to them 4. In a State of Holy Indifference the Soul no longer retains any voluntary and deliberate desires for its own interest unless in such Cases wherein it does not Bona Fide Co-operat wholly for its own sake alone 5. In the same State of Holy Indifference we will nothing for our selves but all things for GOD. We desire nothing that may be Perfect and Happy for our own proper Interest but desire all Perfection and Happiness so far forth as GOD is pleased to effect it that so we may Will these things by the Impulse of his Grace 6. In this State we no longer desire Salvation as our own Salvation as Eternal Redemption as the Reward of our Merits but we Freely Will it as the Glory and good Pleasure of GOD as a thing He Wills and would have us to Will for His Sake 7. Dereliction is nothing else but a Mans Renouncing and denying of himself which JESUS CHRIST Requires of us in the Gospel after we have forsaken all External things This Self-denial Relates only to our own private Interest The greatest probations in which this Self-denyal or Dereliction of our selves ought to be Exercised are the Temptations by which GOD who is the Rival would Purifie our Love by shewing that it has no other Sanctuary nor any other Hope no not so much as what Relates to our Everlasting Interest 8. All the Sacrifices that are wont to be Offered by Souls the least Interested about their Eternal Happiness are Conditional But this Sacrifice cannot be absolute in an ordinary State In the Single Instance of extream Trials this Sacrifice becomes in some Measure absolute 9. In extream Trials the Soul may be invincibly perswaded by a Reflexive Perswasion and such a Perswasion as arises not from the depth of Conscience that she is Reprobated by GOD. 10. Then the Soul separated from it self Cries out with CHRIST on the Cross saying My GOD my GOD why hast Thou forsaken Me In this involuntary Impression of desperation it offers up an absolute Sacrifice of its Self-interest as to what relates to Eternity 11. In this State the Soul foregoes all Hope of its own private Interest but in the Superior part That is in its direct and inward Acts never parts with that Perfect Hope which is the Disinterested desire of the promises 12. The Director may then permit such a Soul to acquiesce simply in the loss of its own private Interest and in that Just Condemnation which it believes is inflicted on it by GOD. 13. The Inferior part of CHRIST on the Cross did not Communicat to the Superior part its involuntary perturbations 14. In extream Trials for the Purifying of our Love there is some sort of separation made of the Superior part of the Soul from the Inferior part of it In this Separation the Acts of the Inferior part Flow from a Blind and Involuntary perturbation for all that is Voluntary and Intellectual belongs to the Superior part 15. Meditation Consists of Discursive Acts which are easily distinguished from each other This Composition of Discursive and Reflexive Acts is peculiar to the Exercise of Interested Love 16. There is a State of so sublime and perfect a Contemplation as may become Habitual So that as oft as the Soul Actually prays its Prayer is Contemplative not Discursive Then it has no more occasion to have Recourse to Meditation and to its Methodical Actions 17. Contemplative Souls are deprived of a Distinct Sensible and Reflexive Intuition of Jesus Christ 1. In the first Zeal of their Contemplation and 2. in extream Trials 18. In the passive State all the several Vertues are exercised without thinking that they be Vertues Every Moment nothing else is thought of but the doing of that which God Wills and which a Jealous Love at the same Effects that none might desire Vertue for himself nor be more Vertuous than when he relies not upon Vertue 19. In this Sense it may be said That the Passive and Dis-interested Soul desires not Love it self as it is its Perfection and Happiness but only as its that which GOD requires of us 20. In Confession converted Souls ought to detaste their Sins and Condemn themselves desire Remission of their Sins not as their own Purification and Redemption but as the thing which GOD Wills and would have us Will for His Glory 21. The Holy Mysticks have excluded the practice of Vertue from the State of Transformed Souls 22. Tho this Doctrine of Pure Love be the pure and simple Evangelical Perfection set down by Universal Tradition Yet the Ancient Pastors did not Generally propose to the Multitude of the Faithful any thing but the exercise of Interested Love proportioned to their Graces 23. Pure Love is that alone which Constitutes the whole Internal Life and thence proceeds the only Principle and only Motive of all the Actions which are Deliberate and Meritorious By the express Condemnation of these Propositions we would not be thought to approve of the other things contained in this Book But that these Our Letters Patent may be the more easily notified to all Men and that none may plead Ignorance in the Case We likewise will and by the aforesaid Authority command that they be published as usual by one of our Curriers before the Gates of Our Royal Palace of Our Apostolical Court of Chancery and of the General Court on the Citatorian Mount and at the Entrance of Campus Florae without the City and that Copies of them be set up at the said places That being thus published they might prevail on all and every person whom they concern as much as if they had a personal notice thereof We moreover Require that the same Credit be every where given both Judicially and Extrajudicially to the Printed Copies of these our Letters Patent Subscribed by a publick Notary and Sealed by one in Ecclesiastical Authority as should be to these Presents if exhibited and shewn Given at Rome at St. Maria Major under the Papal Seal March 12. 1699 in the Eight year of Our Pontificat Signed I F. Card. Albanus Signed Sebastianus Vassellus Mag. Curs In the Year 1699 In the Seventh Indiction on the 13th of March and in the Eight Year of the Popedom of the Most Holy Father in Christ and our Lord Innocent 12 by Divine providence Pope the aforesaid Bull was set up and Published before the Gates of the Pope's Royal Palace of Innocent's Great Court at the Entrance of Campus Florae and the other usual places of the City by me Francis Perinus Currier to his Holiness