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A39863	A relation of the country of Jansenia wherein is treated of the singularities founded therein, the customes, manners, and religion of it's inhabitants : with a map of the countrey / composed in French by Lewis Fountaine, Esq ; and newly translated into English by P.B.; Relation du pays de Jansénie. English.	Zacharie de Lisieux, père, O.F.M. cap., 1582-1661.; P. B.	1668 (1668)	Wing F1410; ESTC R38878	20,683	134

hear them If any stranger desires to be naturalized in the Country they do not impede him for as much as they believe that it is the honour of the Nation and instead of making him pay for his Letters they even hive him money to receive them which is the cause that many who are reduc'd to poverty forsake their Country where they hope for nothing from fortune but those who are thus receiv'd and admitted cannot be promoted to any employment till time doth make appear they have gotten the Spirit of the Land that there is no more fear of them and are very secret persons for diffidence is natural to all Jansenians and that so much that even in trivial things they use precaution for that cause they entertain a great number of Spies in all parts to relate unto them what is done and are at a great charge in Letters that what is said hereof seems incredible There is no Kingdom in the World wherein Sciences be better rewarded nor after a more honourable manner and there is seen in the publick place a Statue with it's Elogy to eternize the memory of a person who in his time was employed in Italy in a negotiation with little success 't is said also that some one had taken occasion from thence to put these two Latine words at the foot of the Figure Itineri non tibi to declare that this honour was ordered him not because he had done well but to pay his journey Those kind of rewards are so common in the Country that two men have received the same honour for having both Composed a Book upon the Laws that are observed among them the learneder of them having afforded the matter and the other the fair teams which occasioned this question to wit Whither a man could be a Child of two Fathers and supposed he can be Whither he should be esteemed legitimate and rightly born The Title of Heroine is given to all well moneyed women who contribute to the reparation of the Town-walls to the melting of Canons and to the payment of the Garrison To them Authours usually Dedicate their Books to engage them yet more in the interest of the Land with their fine Dedicatorie Epistles and to puff up their heart The height of honour is to permit them to take place among the Doctours of Divinitie and many are admitted to it but they must before hand have read some certain traductions which do inspire sufficiencie and give good testimonie in writing In that Region are found many Animals which are altogether unknown to us As Wolves that bear Wool Foxes of all Haires and tame ones too that go up and down with their pullen and without offending them as 't is said Black Parats which speak very well Pilled Owles that sing melodiously and that make a better harmony than our Nightingals Their Calves are much bigger than ours their Asses the like and out of a Custome received in the Land time out of mind they take care to cover their Ears 't is the Womens function to make Biggins and Caps that are for this use Their Pyes which Chatter very much remember nothing but such injurions words as are taught them Their Dogs Bark at none but Strangers for they know them by their smell and cover their nastyness as Cats do But in so neat a manner that there is not the least thing to be seen which hath given ground to some of the ignorant sort to believe that they render up by transpiration the superfluitie of foods Whereas they please themselves very much in Writing they keep to that purpose a great number of Geese which makes it evident they were much wrong'd when 't was said that they us'd none but Eagles Pens They have no less store of Horn'd Beasts than we both tame and wilde and their Forrests bear Staggs of a remarkable greatness but although they take often enough of them they have not yet thought of hanging the Heads at their Gates They believed when I was there that some Inchanter had thrown a Charm and mischievous Witcherie over the Nets of their Hunters for notwithstanding all their care and vigilancy they never caught but Bitterns or Cranes Th' aconit is the Flower that grows more naturally in the Land and all their Gardens are infected with that Poison In recompence the Bay-tree grows there very finely wherewith they Crown themselves for as they believe themselves near Kinsmen men to the Muses they willingly take the equipage of Parnassus and besides there are some among them so perswaded of their Victories meerly imagining it to be so that they render to their own selves the honour of a perpetual triumph This Country is very subject to be blasted with Thunder which makes the Inhabitants scarce concerned at it yet 't is said they were extreamly troubled when the Thunder without Lightning before and without making any great noise did beat in pieces the Epitaph of their Nation 's Prince Besides the Rivers divided for the good of the grounds and for the commodity of Commerce there is seen a Lake which many esteem very like that of Geneva but others believe that the figure of it is a little unlike and it is certain that the water of it is farre more subtile This Province produceth Mines of gold and silver which make it considerable above any other thing Quick silver is more common in it and many people make it their business to find out the secret of fixing it But instead of bringing it to passe it always flyes up into their heads and at length by a necessary sequel brings great quakings upon them Of all fruits there is onely the Winter-pear called Bon-Christian that cannot grow there whatever Art you use but they have another which is almost like it and which they call after the same name the difference is known onely by the tast which hath nothing of the sweetness of the true Chritian's-pear The Jansenians received the Gospel from one Margalicus a professed enemy to our Kings they do not agree of the year but intermingled with so many wicked and abominable opinions that one can neither read nor hear them without horrour They maintain with much obstinacy that there are some certain people for whom alone our Saviour dyed that others the number whereof is incomparably far greater receive no manner of helps which might lead them to an happy Eternity that Jesus Christ never intended any such thing when he shed his blood that if it happeneth that he give his grace in Baptisme or in Penance to any one of these wretches 't is like a favourable Wind which feeds hope for a while but which will never lead them into the Haven and which abandoneth them in the middle of the Waves thereby to be unavoidably suffocated sometimes also without having given occasion thereof by any infidelity That it is pleasing to God to be thus rigourous that to him our salvation is assured or otherways by granting it or

refusing his graces that he admits but of few because he will largely punish Adam's Children for their Father's sin That he chargeth them with Laws which they cannot observe but with that aid which is denied them that notwithstanding 't is enough to destroy them justly to be able to say they have not done what was commanded them because it suffices that God ordains a thing to bind a man to the execution of the precept were it to flye though he hath no wings or that by mishap they have been cut away from him That God doth good enough to the wicked when he gives them being together with all temporal favours that make them passe away their lives deliciously That having destinated them to be the victimes of his fury 't is a great gratification to them to fatten them up for the day of Sacrifice and Crown them with Flowers that all his mercies to these unfortunate People are onely fine vailes to cover his design of damning them sweet amusements which nevertheless bind them to call God their good Lord their Saviour their loving Father although he prepares for them unavoidable punishments and that all their Prayers all their Penances be not able to move him upon this Article of Eternity To be short that setting aside a small handful of such as he hath Elected for Salvation right or wrong the Devils and all humane kind are alike to him As to the Pope they say that the Holy Ghost hath not been promised him that he is not to be heeded in what he says if he speak alone that he imagin's to see in Books what never was in them and also that he cannot Read That he is an Vsurper of Soveraign power which ought not to be suffered that three heads of their Country-men have more Brains in them and Learning than he and all the Cardinals together with all the Divines in the world That such as have receiv'd in times past as decisions of faith the declarations of Popes were meer simpletons brainless and heartless People 'T is not yet clearly known what they believe of the Eucharist but most certainly this is said to be their opinion of it To shew it the greater respect they are wont to hang it up in the Church their reason for it is that this was done heretofore and that the time past as the most venerable ought to be the Rule of the present time That Jesus Christ according to Saint Paul is separated from sinners in a higher degree than the Heaven upon which is placed the Throne of his Majesty that consequently our Tabernacles have not those great significations which do represent Mysteries and which oblige Christians to remember that our Saviour is above them through sanctity and place Some were minded to tell them that we ought to go along with the times we live in that this hanging up of the Host may occasion many accidents and that 't is a sad thing to see the Sacrament down upon the ground when the cord is gnawn by some beast or chanceth to break through age That the Tabernacles which at this day are in use in other Countries and within hand 's reach do perfectly well express that admirable descending of the humbled Word into a strange nature and declare that he is come near us by his holy Incarnation This advice was judged of no weight and they did determine for ever that the blessed Sacrament should be hanged up when there was no other reason but onely that all other Nations from whom they ought to receive no rule do not use that way and that they must oppose them in it They have so much respect for the Eucharist that one of their greatest desires would be to be deprived of it all their life time out of humility and even at the hour of death In some places they hire Priests to say Masse but seldome to introduce a Custome of it a thing singular enough among these People to pay people for doing nothing I have seen in that Country a form of prayers amongst others this which they are to say at the Elevation of the Blessed Sacrament Lord I adore you upon your Crosse and at the general judgement which is to be at the world's end As if a man should say to the King Sir I salute your Majesty in the Army where you were two years ago and in the Palace in your Seat of Justice where you will be within six weeks Which made me think theirs is not the same as ours touching that Article or that the Authours of those fine Prayers who have so many times examined them and made them so often be Printed do explicate themselves very badly Their Priests take great delight to hear their Penitents repeat their sins several times After they have put them to the trouble of telling all they most often deny them Absolution without any cause that deserveth it and comfort them up with promises this repeating establishes sometimes a great familiarity upon matters very grievous among persons that should not have any or causeth an exceeding shame which keepeth many from Confession resolving rather to perish than gain their grace by these redoubled confusions and which are not necessary at all Indeed 't is said that the Doctours of that Country do not hold Absolution a very effective thing that they teach that it is but a simple declaration of the grace one hath obtained by an inward sorrow that a man may very well be without it and that the released Prisoner ought little to care to be told that the Gaoler hath set open the Door or that nothing be said of it to him Upon this supposal they do not hasten themselves to give Absolution that they refuse it often enough to dying persons and remit them to the next week This rigorous proceeding hath cast many into despair and constrained many others to go out of the Country to discharge themselves of their sins amongst more humane and more reasonable people where the Yoke of Christian Religion is no heavier than Jesus Christ made it The Jansenians speak much of publick Penance but as Women do of Armies where they never go for there is no one seen to do it and all this tattle aimes and ends but in one thing to abstain from the Eucharist or not to go to hear Masse wherein they find most wonderful facilities This is their Publick Penance their principal austerity their admirable sanctification As the abstaining from the Eucharist seems to them the most meritorious of all their Fasts they reckon the Weeks and Months they have forborn it to make to themselves a great subject of consolation thereo● sometimes also they let Easter passe without receiving and say to their Country-men God be thanked 't is now almost two years since I received the Sacrament which puts me in hopes of greater strength and that he who recompenseth the humble will grant me graces which he affords not those intemperants of communion who would think themselves

be a superfluous thing and they would expose themselves to a manifest refusal by drawing to their party men that have resolved the contrary and who for to gain the world would not expose themselves to so great an infamy This diversity of Opinions was the cause at that time they did determine nothing as to that Article and thus they broke off having admonished their Deputies that the Air of Rome was no ways wholesome for them that they should not forget their Caps to the end they might be always covered even before the Pope and that when they should be returned back into Jansenia their native Country it would be time enough to uncover themselves Not long after there was a rumour spread up and down that the Plague had spoiled all Jansenia and that there was not a soul left in it for albeit that this Province be subject to great winds which made a doubt that it was not EAolia yet the Plague makes there often great ravages which much amazeth the Physitians and there was ground to believe that the distemp had been great Then it was that one might easily perceive that the Jansenians were abominable to the whole world For upon the news that their generation was extinguished many people did strive who should make the greatest Bone-fires and knocked out the Heads of Wine-vessels in the streets believing that they could not be too profuse in expressing their joy but this satisfaction did last no longer than till the beginning of the following Winter For even then those Jansenians whom the Plague had dispersed and who had retired themselves into their Caverns began to come out of their Holes with countenances that had not yet lost all the marks of fear They came to Town again by little and little sometimes single sometimes two by two after having an hundred times drawn back their feet upon suspicion whither they should be safe in their first Lodgings In fine all fear was laid aside experience having shewn that the ill air was dissipated and because the mortality had not been great whatever fears or noise it had raised in less then six months the Town was near as ful as ever The other people that had rejoyced for their death did express so much trouble for the return of the Jansenians that they were even going into mourning Since that there hath been nothing but insultings on all sides the one taxing their enemies with cowardise for having been so passionate against such as they believed were dead They on the contrary upholding that they had not done enough and that the world could not shew joy enough in being rid of such a wretched Sect. END IANSENIA AN EXPLICATION OF THE MAP JAnsenisme is in an equal disposition to Liberty Despair and Calvinisme The opinion that Grace doth necessitate the will to good when 't is granted us happen what will and do what one can makes the Libertine The Doctrine that teacheth that Jesus Christ did not dye for all and that he will refuse his Grace to many that cannot be saved but by it maketh the Desperate The Sect that debars the Liberty of Man of the source thereof that maintains that God's Commandements are impossible that moveth one to the contempt of the Supream Bishop of his Decrees of his Censures makes the Calvinist and Presbyterian Those that seem not to reach so far loose themselves in Jansenisme it self as you may perceive by these Monsters and by those Shipwracks in the Sea that bears it's name These Rivers these Coaches these Post-horses these Boats laden with Books and other Marchandise do make appear whither Jansenisme doth tend and the reaches thereof Her communications with the Errants whom she will not own and in fine how dangerous it is to professe a Doctrine the principles whereof does invite and draw people to Charenton to Debauchery or to the Halter These Cypress-trees which grow amongst the Rocks these doleful trees where ye see Men hanged up make it appear that the Country bordering upon Jansenia on the Western part is a Land of Despair That which ye see over against it hath not any thing but what 's pleasing so is it more inhabited than the other because that Liberty allures more people than the diffidence of God's goodness doth ruin Those Statues of Bacchus and of Venus do evidence the exercises of such as went from Jansenisme into this Land of Pleasure and the Gods that are adored there Calvinia that takes the upper hand of the Map and whither ye see so many people go notifies what ye know of these wretches who after having for a time tossed themselves to and fro under an ambiguous name did at length declare themselves true Disciples of Calvin These others that dig the ground in Jansenia would not be so earnest at their work if they were not in hopes to reap some benefit thereby The Sepulcher strucken with a Thunder-bolt is that of the Flemish Professor's whose Epitaph was condemned and caused to be razed out by the Pope The Book says enough of the Lake This same Forrest where you see a place of Habitation is the Retiring-house of the Demy-Moncks who are what they are not and are not what they are 'T is left to you to guess the Creatures for your service These half Muzled Asses these Flocks of Geese these huge Calves that a man would take for Oxen these Sheep-wolves these pleasant Owles these great horned Stags these Foxes that befriend Hens so much for all these well deferve your pains in looking into the meaning of them There are yet other creatures spoken of in the Relation of the Country weigh all the words of it there are none but may be made use of if ye read it as ye should do from one end to the other ye will with delight discover what the Jansenists do teach what they hatch what they have done and what they can do Just as I was making an end of this Relation these two Letters which treat of the fame thing were put into my Hand by a friend that had taken a Copy of them I thought it would oblige you Reader to let you have a sight of them SIR I Am told that Jansenisme lyes desperate●y sick if it dies as it is very likely it will not have lived long We ought to believe that God is absolutely willing it should be destroyed since that all manner of remedies prove ineffectual and that although it be in the height of youth yet it cannot escape 'T is affirmed that it hath made a Will and that it Bequeaths its Books to a Minister whose name I could not learn He that will be chosen to make the Funeral Sermon will have matter inough if he will forget nothing and follow his instructions I saw a Paper by chance wherein he is highly praised for having been so generous as to fly out against two Popes and for having withstood four Anathemes without stirring I do not think there is any praying for it now 't is dead nor that it will receive the usual Ceremonies to the deceased because it 's near Relations will believe it to be glorious in heaven at the very moment of it's expiration and that they are not people that wilt apply to him the Indulgencies of Rome or sprinkle it with holy Water for as you well know 't is not their devotion If they follow the custom of their good friends they may well say thus Sleep Corps until the Lord doth awake thee My Letter mentioneth that many of the sick persons Domesticks will not need to trouble themselves to look a Master after its death because many worthy persons of several qualities and some Church-men have engaged to take them giving them another kind of Livery We shall know for certain by that those that were the deceased's true friends and there will be no farther need of guessing at inclinations that will be better known by their Signs than any Scrivener If there be an Inventary made of all moveables with the forms received in France those that take delight to disguise themselves at Shrovetide will be fitted at a cheap rate for 't is said there are above fifty as well Perriwigs as Beards and as many several habits as it usually wore sutable to the part it would act when it had no mind to be known But there is no likelyhood that the heirs will produce all this They may keep them for their own use and prudence will undoubtedlyoblige them to divide among themselves in a friendly manner all things of this nature I fancy they 'l be careful in burning several Letters and other Papers which might reveal Mysteries if seen for to this day all things are written in Cyphers and since what was discovered in the Flemish Doctors Letters which were more obscure than any Aenigma 't is not credible that a secret communicated to a friend in unknown tearms or barbarous figures can be long without being known if it falls into anunderstanding mans hands When I know more I will acquaint you with it in the mean time I will remain as ever SIR Your most humble c. Answer SIR I cannot conceive where you have disposed of your charity truly 't is not well done to jeer sick persons thus You make that the subject of your recreation which to many others is a great affliction Will you believe that I have seen some so overcome with pain that they even almost lost their sences If death follows the disease it will be far worse and I am much affraid they may chance to exclaim against persons in power whichwould deserve an examplary punishment for I question not but the Magistrates would take notice of it and there would be an end of them if they were called to the Bar. But I pray think me not a worse Catholick for being of this judgment for although those people be not of our Religion yet their tears move me because I am a man and because compassion is a due from us not onely to the just that are afflicted but also to wretched criminals I am SIR Your c.