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A25851	Mysteriou tes ayomias, that is, Another part of the mystery of Jesuitism or, The new heresie of the Jesuites, publickly maintained at Paris, in the College of Clermont, the XII of December MDCLXI ... according to the copy printed at Paris : together with The imaginary heresie, in three letters, with divers other particulars ... never before published in English.	Arnauld, Antoine, 1612-1694.	1664 (1664)	Wing A3729; ESTC R32726	88,087	266

that those amongst some of the new Doctors who would be thought the most favourable to Popes as Monsieur du Val have not been afraid to maintain the Pope's being Infallible was no matter of Faith Duvallius de Suprema authorit Rom. Pontific l. 2. q. 1. Non est de fide Summum Pontificem esse Infallibilem And that the Opinion which assures us he is not is neither erroneous nor rash Ibid. Non est erroneum neque temerarium temeritate Opinionis dicere Summum Pontificem in decernendo errare posse But these very Divines however studious of exalting as much as they could possibly the Authority of the Soveraign Bishops do acknowledge as a thing certain indubitable and constant amongst all Catholicks That they are not Infallible in matters of Fact That therein they may erre and That indeed they are very frequently mistaken Bellarm de Sum. Pontif l. 4. c. 2. All Catholicks saies Cardinal Bellarmine accord in this That the Pope acting as Pope and with the Assembly of his Counsellers yea even with a General Council it self may be deceived in particular facts which depend upon the information and testimony of men And applying this general Maxime to a matter of Fact perfectly resembling that of Jansenius which is to consider whether the Heresie of the Monothelites be comprehended in the Epistles of Honorius as the VI. General Council confirm'd by so many Popes hath defin'd it he adds A General and Lawfull Council cannot erre in defining Points of Faith as neither has the Sixth Council erred therein but it may erre in Questions concerning matters of Fact Ibid. c. 11. Generale Concilium legitimum non potest errare ut neque erravit hoc Sextum in Dogmatibus Fidei definiendis tamen errare potest in Quaestionibus de Facto And Cardinal Baronius affirms the very same upon the same Subject of the Sixth Oecumenical Council We do not so strictly receive the Condemnation even of General Councils themselves as to what concerns mens Persons and their Writings For no body doubts but that who-ever it is he may be deceived in matters of Fact and then is that expression of S. Paul to take place We can doe nothing against the Truth but for the Truth Baron ad An. 681. n. 39. In his enim quae Facti sunt unumquemque contingere posse falli nemini dubium est All other Divines even the most devoted to the Court of Rome have hitherto contain'd themselves within these limits but the Jesuites will no more indure either bounds or Examples in their excess and extravagancies It suffices not them to render the Pope Infallible as some Divines may possibly have done They will have it that Jesus Christ has absolutely imparted to him the very same Infallibility which He himself possess'd upon the Earth and that as this Infallibility of Jesus Christ extended to all and not onely to things already reveal'd but to those things which had never yet been so reveal'd and that he made known himself in saying them so the Pope does also become Infallible not onely in proposing to the Church what is contain'd in the reveal'd Will of God but in proposing to her likewise matters of Fact which it is evident and certain God has never yet reveal'd as when for Instance the Question is Whether these Propositions are in a Book of the Seventeenth Age. Nor are these any Consequences which we may naturally deduce from their doctrine they draw them thence themselves and form Catholick Assertions of them conformable to the Title of their Position There is then say they an Infallible Judge of Controversies of Faith even extrinsecal to a General Council it self as well for Questions appertaining to Right as for those which concern matters of Fact And that you should not doubt what it is they would signifie by these Questions of Fact albeit the word Fact oppos'd to Right renders it sufficiently perspicuous they produce for an Example and as a new Consequence of this Infallibility of Jesus Christ communicated to the Pope That since the Constitutions we may believe with a divine Faith that the Book of Jansenius is heretical and that the Five Propositions do belong to this Author Unde post Innocentii X. Alexandri VII Constitutiones fide divinâ credi potest Librum cui titulus est Jansenii Augustinus esse haereticum Quinque Propositiones ex eo decerptas esse Jansenii Behold then here the Proposition which these men assert publickly in one of the greatest Cities of the World and it is worth observing to note the Original and the date of it For those who now at present promote it so boldly had long since scatter'd the seeds thereof in some of their Writings and it was sufficiently evident that all their design was to be bottom'd upon this Errour they had likewise themselves advanced the Conclusions in one place and the Principles in another but it was still with certain windings and ambiguities of termes which as yet furnish'd them with lurking-holes and places of subterfuge but now they discover nakedly and without disguise to the Church what it is they pretend to establish in her Let the whole Church take notice of it then and record it That it was the 12 of December in the year 1661 that the Jesuites openly publish'd that monstrous Opinion which they have been so long a-brooding That it was upon this day they propos'd as a most Catholick Assertion That whenever the Pope does speak out of his Chair HE HATH THE SAME INFALLIBILITY THAT JESUS CHRIST HATH not onely in Questions of Right BUT ALSO IN MATTERS OF FACT and that hence we are to believe WITH A FAITH DIVINE that those Five Propositions are of Jansenius It will My Lords be needless to amplifie much in letting the world see that this is not here onely a solitary Errour or simple Heresie but a whole source of Errours and as one may say an Universal Heresie which overthrows all Religion For you know My Lords that the very prime Fundamental of Christian Religion is That our Faith is not supported upon the word of Men but upon the Word of God which is Truth it self and that it is That which renders it immoveable and altogether Divine whereas it would else prove but Humane were it upheld by any other Authority less then that of God and if we were not able to render our selves that Testimony which S. Paul gives the Christians of Thessalonica To have received the Word which God hath taught us by his Church and that not as the Word of Men but as the Word of God and as in truth it is Non ut verbum hominum sed sicut est verè verbum Dei De error Abailardi c. 4. Whatsoever is comprised in the Faith saies S. Bernard is built upon solid and certain Truth persuaded by the divine Oracles confirmed by Miracle and consecrated by the production of the Virgin by the bloud of

in Questions pertaining to Right as to those of Fact so as their Decisions concerning the Facts themselves may be believed by a divine Faith they are rank Hereticks as being engag'd to maintain this Blasphemy And in case they pretend that this is a true Opinion they are nevertheless Hereticks because they oppose the Faith not submitting to the Decision of so many Popes and General Councils in reference to the condemnation of Honorius who according to their Errour we are by divine Faith oblig'd to believe had been justly condemn'd because he was so by Judges as Infallible as Jesus Christ as well in matters of Right as those of Fact I insist too long my Lords in refuting an Errour so notorious Give me leave yet to represent to you one most pernicious Consequence You have seen what the design of this Position is and how specious a Title they have prefix'd before it Assertiones Catholicae contra Saeculorum omnium praecipuas Haereses This being so what may we else imagin when we shall see by the sequel of that which they oppose to these Heresies but that they are Catholick Truths maintain'd by the Church against these Hereticks and which we are oblig'd to acknowledge under censure of being our selves Hereticks and of Apostasie from the Communion of the Church Never then according to these Jesuites must we think of receiving the poor Greeks into the Communion of the Catholick Church or re-unite these divided Members sever'd by so deplorable a Schism but in obliging them to confess that J. Christ has bestowed the same Infallibility upon all the Popes which He himself has in all that they propose to the Universal Church yea even in matters which concern particular Facts And as all the Hereticks of these last Ages have embrac'd the Errour of the Greeks against the Primacy of the holy See we must never open the doors of the Church to them before they make profession of this fine new Article of Faith But admit we should not exact that so strictly of them what an Obstacle do we not lay in the way of their Conversion what Scandal are we not guilty of and what pretext do we not afford their Ministers to decry the Catholick Church before their abus'd People by rendering her odious and contemptible and by confirming them in those their ancient Calumnies and Reproches which they have so frequently objected to the Catholicks for equalling the Pope to Almighty God 'T is well known that it is from their Principles they have inspired Rebellion into so many People Should therefore Religious and Pious persons favour them in this detestable design that they furnish them with Armes to fight against us and suffer them to look upon the deference which the Faithfull owe to the Pope as an insupportable Yoak upon the Conscience in things that do not at all concern any point of Faith and whereof the knowledge does not in the least conduce to Salvation This is it my Lords which has chiefly oblig'd us to speak upon this occasion And it was highly necessary that the Catholick Divines should make hast to decry this Impiety lest those Uncircumcis'd should take occasion of insulting over the Armies of the living God We were obliged to prevent them to the end they may see that we do no less abhor this excess in the Catholick Church for the love of Truth then they appear to detest her by the design which they pretend to justifie their faulty separation But if it be sufficient to acquit Divines of their devoir that they represent this publick Complaint it is not enough for the honour of the Church and for the entire reparation of this Scandal that there have been onely Divines which have reprov'd it It is You my Lords who ought to be enflamed with Zeal for the Purity of the Doctrine whereof You are the Depositaries for the Salvation of the Faithfull of whom You are the Fathers for the Sanctity of the Church whereof You are the Spouses les Espouses for the Honour of J. Christ of whom You are the chief Ministers to consider as in the presence of God what your Duty is upon so important an Occasion in which the Faith of the Church is violated by a Capital Errour which subverts its very Foundation where the Faithfull are empoison'd with an Opinion which tends to the changing of that Veneration into Idolatry which they ought to bear to their soveraign Bishop where the Church is prophan'd by an Impiety that dishonors and exposes her to the outrages of her Enemies in summe where J. Christ is horribly offended by the Sacrilegious Parity which is put between the words of his Servant and his own most Sacred Dictates by making the one as well as the other the Object of a divine Faith Haply some there be may reply that this Extravagance deserves not half this aggravation and doubtless they will make use of it for a pretext to induce you to connive at so foul an excess But my Lords you ought to consider that how extravagant soever this Opinion may appear it is promoted by Persons who may give us just occasion to apprehend the strange Consequences of it For 't is sufficiently evident that it is not by chance or through the blindness of any particular man that it comes thus to appear in the World It is long since that they have prepar'd and dispos'd all things for its production and entertainment though they never usher'd it in with pomp before they were well assur'd all things were favourable for its reception and that there was not a Champion remaining who had the courage or confidence to oppose it openly Perhaps indeed their Pretence is not yet so far advanc'd as to draw a formal Approbation from the Bishops But that which they hope for is since I am obliged to speak all that their credit and their power of being able to doe good or ill offices will be a means to retain all the Bishops in silence so as none of them shall dare to condemn them for fear of drawing upon them the strength and displeasure of so puissant a Society and that the Sorbonne which they now reckon to be in their dependence will never have the confidence to Censure this Doctrine whatever their aversion may be to it Thus they hope that during this Silence and whiles all the World is as it were snorting dum dormirent homines this Cockle which they have sown in the field of the Church will take root and in time get strength There they will leave it to ripen and as they use to say relinquent tempori maturandum and when it shall be arriv'd to full maturity produce the natural Consequences that must necessarily spring from it At present indeed they do but say onely One may believe Particular Facts with a divine Faith but they will shortly pronounce that men are bound to believe them which will be very easie for them to establish because it is but a

our Redeemer and by the glory of his Resurrection Totum quod in Fide est certâ ac solidà veritate subnixum Oraculis Miraculis divinitus persuasum stabilitum consecratum partu Virginis sanguine Redemptoris gloriâ resurgentis Whosoever therefore shall presume to affirm that a Thing neither revealed nor attested by God as is that to know whether Propositions are really an Author 's of these last Ages is an Object of divine Faith merely because the Pope has said it or does establish for a Fundamental of his Belief any humane Authority and word of a mortal Man subverts the Faith or that makes a God of the Pope and of his Word a divine Word and a holy Scripture is not onely guilty of Heresie but of horrid Impiety and a species of Idolatry For Idolatry does not consist merely in giving to Man the Name of God but infinitely more when we attribute to him those Qualities which are peculiar to God and when we render him those honours which are alone due to the Deity Now this intire submission of our Spirit and of all out Intellectuals comprehended in the act of our Faith is no other then that Adoration which we pay to the Prime Verity it self and therefore whosoever he be that renders it to the word of a Man what-ever rank he may hold in the Church whoever saies that he believes with a Faith divine that which he would not believe but because a Man has affirmed it does constitute Man in the place of God transferrs to the Creature that which is alone due to the Creator and makes as far as in him lies a kind of Idol of the Vicar of Jesus Christ And it is this My Lords which will doubtless cause you so much the more to detest this Impiety That the Promoters of this Doctrine have imagin'd they shall make it pass under the shelter of that Respect which all Catholicks bear towards the Pope and that none will presume to oppose it for fear of offending him But were it possible to offer a greater affront to the prime Minister of Jesus Christ then to conceive they doe him honour by a Blasphemy so injurious to Jesus Christ that he should suffer them to equal him with his Master by ascribing to him the same Infallibility which He alone possesses and that men should render that supreme Cultus of a Divine faith to his Words which is onely due to the Word of God If S. Paul and S. Barnabas perceiving certain persons ready to render them the same honours which they gave to their false Gods did rend their Garments to testifie their extreme grief and resentment and cast themselves in amongst the people to hinder them of their purpose we are bound to believe that if the Pope were well advertiz'd of this fearfull and prodigious excess he would not fail with his whole Authority to repress these prophane Adorators and that as a Crime capable of losing him for ever before God he would not permit himself to be so much as once touch'd with the least complacency of so detestable a Flattery He would certainly consider even with trembling the vengeance which God did execute upon that last King of the Jews for having onely indulg'd the tumultuary Acclamations of a People who after they heard him speak cry'd out The Voice of God and not of Man Dei voces non hominis since the Scripture informs us that the Angel of the Lord did immediately smite him because he had not given the honour which was due to God Confestim autem percussit eum Angelus Domini eò quòd non dedisset honorem Deo In the mean while how much less criminal were the Adulations of these People then that of the Jesuites That might possibly be taken for some sudden transport of Joy which is oftentimes not regulated by Reason and sometimes we find that even the Scripture it self gives to Judges and to Princes the appellation of God but here they attribute to the Pope and that deliberately out of a formed design and the establishment of a Dogme and of a Theological Assertion not a senseless Name but one of the most resplendent and glorious Titles of God and the most incommunicable to the Creature which is That the Word of a Pope should be so Infallible as it should merit the submission of divine Faith to it which cannot be render'd without gross Idolatry to any save to the Prime and Sovereign Verity For we cannot say upon this occasion what those are wont to affirm who maintain the Infallibility of the Pope in matters of Faith That in believing what the Pope decides concerning them they do not establish their Faith upon the word of a Man because he proposes onely what has been by God reveal'd in Scripture and Tradition so as still their Faith is founded upon the Word of God We can say nothing like this upon the subject in hand and in reference to which the Jesuites pretend that the Pope is as Infallible as Jesus Christ and his Decision an object of divine Faith When the Pope shall propose a matter of Fact of a Seventeenth Age as for example to divine whether heretical Propositions have been taught by an Author of that Period we cannot pretend that he propounds a thing which is either reveal'd in Scripture or in Tradition Well he may say that so he judges it but he cannot affirm that God has reveal'd it He may averre it of himself but he cannot say Dominus locutus est that God has declar'd it In like sort when it is Man which speaks and not God those who assert that we may adhibit a divine Faith to a Decision of this nature do visibly perpetrate the abominable excess of those blinded people and joyn in their acclamation Voces Dei non hominis Now if the Piety of the Pope do as doubtless it will preserve him from being infected with this Sacrilegious Opinion those who present him this poison will nevertheless be as criminal as those miserable Flatterers who were the occasion of the death of their King by their impious Elogies For he is not an homicide of the Soul or Body onely who effectively takes away the Life of one or the other but he is a Murtherer also who does that which is of it self capable to extinguish either the one or the other Cyprianus de Lapsis S. Cyprian names those Christians Parricides that for fear of Persecution offer'd their sucking Infants to the Idols because though they could not saies S. Augustin by this Idolatry and in which the poor Babes had no part bereave them of that spiritual life which they had deriv'd from their Baptism yet did they notwithstanding rob them of it as much as in them lay Aug. Ep. 23 In illis quidem interfectionem non faciunt sed quantum in ipsis est interfectores fiunt Flatter not your selves adds the same S. Augustin In lib. de Pastoribus cap. 4.