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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93040	The journal of Monsr. de Saint Amour doctor of Sorbonne, containing a full account of all the transactions both in France and at Rome, concerning the five famous propositions controverted between the Jansenists and the Molinists, from the beginning of that affair till the Popes decision. / Faithfully rendred out of French. ; A like display of the Romish state, court, interests, policies, &c. and the mighty influences of the Jesuites in that church, and many other Christian states, being not hitherto extant.; Journal. English	Saint-Amour, Louis-Gorin de, 1619-1687.; Havers, G. (George)	1664 (1664)	Wing S296A; ESTC R225933	1,347,293	723

I never thought of shewing him the foregoing Narrative but since my Return sending it to him to peruse and see whether all were punctually related and whether he would add any thing to it after he had read it he sent it to me back with the following Addition In the said Narrative there is almost nothing of the second Sermon which I preached at Die wherein I handled the matter of Good Works and the distinction of sins into mortal and venial with as great and more strength as I did the day before that of Grace and the possibility of the Commandments and wherein there was this Rrmarkable That the Minister having mention'd the Opinion of the Jesuite Gretser and brought a passage of his as a Doctrine of the Roman Church I said in confuting him That he was either extremely ignorant for a Professor in Divinity or extremely malicious Ignorant if he knew not that the sentiment of that Jesuite was not owned by the Roman Church since so many learned men had opposed it Malicious if knowing so much as it was not likely he could be so ignorant of what was so common among the learned he had nevetheless the boldness to alledge it to his Auditors as the belief of the Church of Rome and so impose upon them the falsity I added that the opinion of the Jesuite Gretser was so far from being the belief of the Roman Church that for my part I accounted the same directly contrary unto it I added this because I saw two Jesuites my Auditors who after Sermon came to see me at my Lodging and express'd to me the satisfaction they had in hearing with what perspicuity and strength I handled that matter You may add That the chief of the Hereticks were so satisfied with me that they prayed me to pass that way at my Return from Rome I promised them that if I came back by the same Road I would do it with all my heart and bestow a whole moneth amongst them and every day confute their errors in the publick place with the same clearness and solidity that I confuted the points which their Minister taught in his Sermon and which I confuted in two of which I made themselves Judges if they would lay their hands upon their consciences CHAP. XVI Passages at Paris towards the end of the year 1651. An Accusation made against me by M. Grandin the Syndic at the instance of the Nuntio as if I termed my self Deputy from the Faculty The Jesuites boast how they were confident the Propositions would be condemned at Rome A scandalous Libel of F. Brisacier the Jesuit against the Nuns of Port-Royal censur'd by the Arch-Bishop of Paris BEfore I enter upon the Narration of what pass'd at Rome during the first six months of the year 1652. there are three or four things worth mentioning here which pass'd at Paris in the end of the year 1651. That which hath most affinity with the former Story is an Enterprise and Slander extremely ridiculous which they contriv'd against me in the Assembly of the Faculty Novem. 4. no doubt out of a design to cloud and render uncertain the boldness of F. Mulard who term'd himself a Deputy from the Faculty by accusing me formally and solemnly in that Assembly of having committed my self the same Imposture to which they had induc'd and train'd that Cordelier When they dispatcht him from France to come and execute all their prescriptions in virtue of that Chimerical Deputation which they had given him by their own private Authority and by which they hop'd to authorize all things which they instructed him to say at Rome they knew full well that I was set forth for France as I have above mention'd They did not all expect my returning to Rome or that there would be other persons there besides me who would be displeas'd and concern'd for F. Mulards stiling himself Deputy from so famous a Society and the knowldge they might have of his Life and Behaviour in the world which gave him licence to speak any thing without any ones being offended or taking notice of it undoubtedly made them presume that this would be observed less in his person then in another so that they lookt he should act absolutely and without contradiction under that name in all the parts of his Instructions and that neither he nor themselves would be liable to reproach for so foul a juggle wherefore when they saw afterwards that their plot was contrary to their hope discover'd by my means whether they were only led with indignation against me for having searcht so far into their contrivance and therefore aim'd to be reveng'd by falsly imposing that Crime upon me of which themselves were truly guilty or whether they only design'd to keep off from themselves that Infamy and render it obscure and dubious in reference to themselves by imputing the same to one who was likely to complain of it and accusing him first though they knew him to be very innocent so it was that they took a Resolution to accuse me of it in publick Now that the accusation might seem the more plausible and better grounded they would not be the Instruments of it themselves but thought fit to make it more authentick by the considerableness of the Nuntio's person which they made use of therein M. Grandin who had been chosen Syndic in M. Hallier's room in the last October and was according to custome to give his Thanks in the Assembly of the fourth of November took this complaint for the whole Subject of his Oration He said as the Letter written by a Doctor my friend some days after that Assembly informeth me that the Nuntio sent for him and the Sub-Dean the day before to advertise them that M. de Saint Amand he meant Saint Amour for having consulted his paper he said no more Saint Amand but Saint Amour which consultation of his paper was from his Charity which told him it might be M. de Saint Amour acted at Rome in quality of Deputy from the Faculty of Divinity in behalf of the cause of some whom with a lower tone he named Jansenists That the Nuntio desired to know the Facultie's mind upon this Advice which he gave them and whether it were true that it had nam'd the said M. de Saint Amour for its Deputy To which M. Grandin added that it was very important that the Faculty took into consideration what he propounded to it Several Doctors who presently apprehended the maliciousness of this first proposal of the new Syndic and were perswaded I was not capable of so shameful a falsitie nor had any ground or need to commit it hiss'd his Proposal and declaim'd against the Deputation of F. Mulard of which they had been advertis'd saying That that was it of which there was very great great reason to complain When the murmur was appeas'd M. Des-chasteaux Doctor and Procurator of Sorbonne to whom I had written since my Return to Rome in regard of the