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doctrine_n	catholic_n	church_n	communion_n	4,463	5	9.1581	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Honorius are Heretical and he that denies it especially after having asserted this General Maxime bears in his forehead the most notorious mark of an Heretick according to S. Paul which is to be condemned by his own proper judgement Nor will it serve to have recourse to the pretended falsifying of the Acts of the sixth Council and of the letters of Leo the second For as this pretension is both unsustainable ridiculous and extravagant as in the last Assembly of the Clergy the Bishops even most addicted to the Jesuites did acknowledge if there were no other then this poor evasion to excuse men from beleeving with Divine Faith that Honorius was justly anathematiz'd and his Letters legally condemned as full of Heresies one must needs have renounced all common sense to make any other judgement of this Pope or not to hold his Letters for heretical But as it is the property of Error to destroy it self the same person that by this new Opinion of the Jesuites should be ingaged of necessitie to maintain these Letters of Honorius to be Heretical by the same principle would be obliged to acknowledge the falsity of his own opinion For how could he beleeve that all the Popes wer indued with this infallibility of Jesus Christ speaking out of their chair seeing Honorius fell into an error in a conjecture where it is hard to conceive how he should not speak out of his chair since he spoke as Judge of controversies of Faith for the adjusting the greatest variance that then raigned in the Church and which had divided all the Patriarks of the East And nevertheless without insisting on the judgement of the Sixth Council and supposing which yet is most absurd that the Acts of it were corrupted how can any one pretend that Honorius in this occasion was assisted with the Infallibility of Jesus Christ since having by his Letters approved the letter of Sergius Patriarch of Constantinople either he understood it rightly and then he fell into an Error of right by approving an heretical Opinion of one only Will in Jesus Christ which he must have acknowledged to have been contained in the letter of Sergius Or else he mis-understood the said letter taking in a Catholike sence that which Sergius writ in an heretical one in which case he must needs have erred at least in a matter of Fact So that the Jesuites can in no sort avoid being Heretikes for if it be an heresie as questionless it is to ascribe to the Popes speaking out of their chair the same infallibility which Jesus Christ hath as well in matters of right as of fact in such sort that their decision even in matters of Fact may be believed by divine Faith then they must needs be Hereticks because they are engaged to maintain not an heresie only but a blasphemy And if they pretend this opinion is true they are likewise Heretikes because they impugn faith by impugning the decision of so many Popes and General Councels touching the condemnation of Honorius whom according to their erroneous Opinion one is bound to beleeve by divine Faith to have been most justly condemned since it was by the sentence of Judges as infallible both in matters of right and of fact as Jesus Christ himself My Lords I dwell too long upon the refutation of so visible a folly but permit me to lay before you one other pernicious consequence thereof Your Lordships have seen the design of their Conclusions and how glorious a Title they prefix before them Assertiones Catholicae contra saeculorum omnium praecipuas Haereses What can a man rationally conceive when he sees what Doctrines in pursuance of that Title they oppose to these heresies but that their meaning is to obtrude them upon us for Catholick truths maintained by the Church against Hereticks and which we are bound to embrace under pain of Heresie and of falling off from the Communion of the Church Wherefore according to the Jesuites the Catholike Church can never receive the Grecians back into Communion nor reunite its members cut off by so deplorable a Schism otherwise then by obliging them to confess that Jesus Christ hath given to the Popes the same infallibility which he himself had in all they propose to the whole Church even particular Facts And as all Heretikes of these latter Ages have embraced the Error of the Grecians touching the Primacy of the Holy Seat so likewise neither can we open the Church doors to any of them upon other terms then by extorting from them a profession of this new Article of Faith But admitting the Church should not tye them to such hard measure yet what a World of Obstacles are by this opinion cast in the way of their conversion What scandall doth it not give them What a fair pretext doth it afford their Ministers to decry the Catholick Church in their Sermons to their abused flock and render it odious and contemptible and confirm them in their ancient reproach and calumny so often cast upon Catholicks of equalling the Pope with God almighty It is well known that this was the principal Engine to work so many people to a revolt from the Church Is it possible that even Religious persons should concur with them in so pernitious a design and furnish them with armes to fight against us giving them a just occasion to look upon the submission which all faithful Christians yield to the Pope as an insupportable yoak imposed on their consciences even in matters that no ways concern the Catholick Faith nor whereof the knowledg doth in any sort contribute to Salvation This is it My Lords that hath chiefly forced us to speak in this ranconter It was absolutely necessary that Catholick Divines should make all hast to cry out against this impiety lest these uncircumcised should take occasion to insult over the Hosts of the living God We were obliged to prevent them that it might appear to all the World that these excesses were no lesse detested in the Catholick Church out of the love of truth then they seemed to detest them upon the accompt of justifying their guilty separation But if to have exposed their complaints to the publick be enough to acquit Divines of the duty incumbent on them it will not suffice for the honour of the Church and an entire reparation of this scandal that they alone should speak in this occasion 'T is your part My Lords who ought to be inflamed with a pious zeal for the purity of Christian Doctrine whereof you are the Depositaries for the safety of Souls whereof you are the Spiritual Fathers for the Sanctity of the Church whereof you are the Bridegrooms for the honour of Jesus Christ whose chief Ministers you are to consider before Almighty God what service you owe him in an occasion of this importance where the Faith of the Church is violated by a capital error that strikes at the very roots thereof where the Faithful are in danger to be poysoned by an