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A45584	The condemnation of Monsieur Du Pin his history of ecclesiastical authors by the Archbishop of Paris ; together with his own retractation ; translated out of French.; Ordonnance de Monseigneur l'archevesque de Paris portant condamnation d'un livre intitulé Nouvelle bibliothèque des auteurs ecclésiastiques. English	Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Paris (France). Archbishop (1671-1695 : Harlay de Champvallon); Harlay de Champvallon, François de, 1625-1695.	1696 (1696)	Wing H776; ESTC R11961	23,873	36

THE CONDEMNATION OF Monsieur Du PIN HIS HISTORY OF Ecclesiastical Authors BY THE ARCHBISHOP of PARIS Together with his own RETRACTATION Translated out of French LONDON Printed for Charles Brome and William Keblewhite at the East-End of St. Paul's and at the Swan in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1696. ADVERTISEMENT TO offer any Account of the History of Ecclesiastical Writers by Monsieur Du Pin or to give a Character of it would be Labour to no purpose seeing it is so well known here by the accurate Translation of it which hath been Published Monsieur Du Pin's Performance in that Work as well as Undertaking did at first receive the Approbation of many Learned Roman Catholicks as they have still the general Applause amongst Protestants But the Esteem which the latter had of this Work tended to the Prejudice of the Author raising Jealousies in those of his own Communion as if he intended to betray the Church and to weaken the Foundation upon which it pretends to stand What chiefly recommended him to Protestants was his Ingenuity in declaring both his own Sentiments and the Sentiments of the Fathers But this very Thing displeased the Heads of his own Church where even Truth it self is not allowed to be spoken but when it may serve their Interest Nay the more Moderate charged him with Imprudence in delivering Truths very unseasonably for while they were extirpating the Opinions of Protestants as damnable Heresie it was no ways proper to Publish a Book which yields great Advantage to Protestants and which shews that their Sentiments are more agreeable to what the Primitive Church and Fathers held than the present Tenets and Practices of the Church of Rome These Prejudices and Objections were managed by some who did bear Monsieur Du Pin a Personal Grudge and by this means he was complained upon publickly and a publick Censure of his Person and Books was demanded which the Circumstances of the French King also required and made necessary that thereby he might soften the Pope dispose him to a Reconciliation and either engage him to side with France against the Confederate Princes or at least to abide Neutral For it was generally believed that that Confederacy did first spring from the Pope who suspected that the French King designed to throw off his Authority and who was highly displeased with him upon the account of those Propositions relating to the Papal Jurisdiction which the Assembly of the Clergy had Concerted and Published Anno 1682. Thus Policy and Interest required the Condemnation of Monsieur Du Pin's Works but some desired to save himself which could be done no other ways than by a Retractation which he long struggled with but at last was prevailed upon by the Example of the Gallican Church which it is said the Archbishop of Paris urged upon him very much saying that it was no shame for him a single Person to make a Retractation when a whole Church had done it to prevent the inconveniences which might otherwise follow The Translator of these Works of Monsieur Du Pin in his Preface to the Third Volume taketh notice of the Condemnation and Censure that were past upon them but also saith that he was not able to procure either a Copy of them or of Du Pin's Retractation which hath moved me to Publish them believing that they will be acceptable to the Curious and useful to those who have bought the Books themselves which are not to be the less esteemed because they are thus Condemned And notwithstanding the Author's Retractation it doth appear that the Protestants have Antiquity on their side for as the Retraction was not voluntary but forced from Du Pin so it doth not flatly contradict any material point in his Books but is merely to be considered as a Prudent and Political Defence to save himself from the Consequences of being judged guilty of what was esteemed Heresie Having said that Monsier Du Pin was prevailed upon to make his Retraction by the example of the French Church who considering the present Circumstances of their King did also Retract the above-mentioned Propositions of the Assembly 1682. which were so offensive to the Pope I Judge it will not be unacceptable to set down their Retraction which I suppose is not not very common and it is as followeth Ad pedes Sanctitatis Vestrae provoluti declaramus nos vehementer supra id quod dici potest ex corde dolore super rebus gestis in Comitiis praefatis quae Sanctitati vestrae ejusque Decessoribus valde displicuerunt ac proinde quod ibidem circa Ecclesiasticam ac pontificiam authoritatem sive in praejudicium Ecclesiarum quod à mente nostrâ prorsus alienum esse testamur deliberatum decretumque videri potest pro non decreto non deliberato habemus habendum esse declaramus The Pope was not pleased with the words circa and videri potest he judged them too soft and general and therefore would not accept of this submission of the Clergy of France untill they were changed into contra and fuit It is to be remembered that the Quotations in the following Retractation are marked according to the English Translation of Du Pin's Works The Remarks mentioned by Du Pin are Critical Observations upon his History which were never Translated nor yet his Answers to them and therefore the Quotations out of them are according to the Paris Edition of them An ORDINANCE of my Lord the Archbishop of PARIS containing the Condemnation of a BOOK having this Title A New Library of Ecclesiastical Authors c. By Monsieur ELLIES Du PIN Doctor in Divinity of the Faculty of Paris Printed by Andrew Pralard FRANCIS by the Grace of GOD and of the Holy Apostolick See Archbishop of Paris Duke and Peer of France Commander of the King's Orders Provisor of the House of Sorbonne and Superior of that of Navarre to all who shall see these present Letters Salvation and Blessing It being the Chief Duty of the Pastors of the Church to keep the Doctrine wherewith they are entrusted such as they have received from the Apostles whose Successors they are and not to suffer any Person to make any Change in it without due Censure and as Tradition is the Channel which should convey to us by an uninterrupted Course the Catholick Doctrines in all their Purity so there should be a singular Regard had to Books and Authors which pretend to represent the same entire deriving it from the Source and tracing it from Age to Age even to the present Times We have therefore judged that we ought to apply our selves carefully to the Examination of a Book printed some Years since in this City under the Title of a New Library of Ecclesiastick Authors c. of which there hath already appeared Five Tomes one after another divided into seven Volumes The design of this Work being to treat of all the Ecclesiastick Authors which have been since the first Establishment of the Church to Publish what