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A70781	The Jesuits morals collected by a doctor of the colledge of Sorbon in Paris who hath faithfully extracted them out of the Jesuits own books which are printed by the permission and approbation of the superiours of their society ; written in French and exactly translated into English.; Morale des jésuites. English	Perrault, Nicholas, ca. 1611-1661.; Tonge, Ezerel, 1621-1680.	1670 (1670)	Wing P1590; ESTC R4933	743,903	426

be no Doctors He explicates the same thing in another manner by a comparison which serves at once both to prove and clear his thoughts n Qui ●aim propositioni à multis viris doctis assertae ueget probabilitate● hi● negat lineae longitudinem supersicici latitudinem corport profund r●tem hic negat desinitionem desinito competere Caram p. 393. For to deny saith he that an opinion which is maintained by many learned men is probable is to deny that a line hath length a superficies bredth and a body thickness or this is indeed to deny a proposition wherein the proper definition is attributed to its subject This is as much as to say that none whoever not excepting God himself can any more hinder that which two or three Doctors have asserted from being probable than make a line without length a superficies without bredth and a body without depth it being indeed in the power of God to destroy the being but not to change the nature of things and to cause that which is not to be but not to be different from what it is So that according to the principles of this new Divinity it is no more in the power of the Church nor of God himself to hinder that an opinion approved by two or three Casuists should be probable and by consequence lawfull and safe in conscience than to hinder that a man should be a reasonable creature Because that as to be a man and to be a reasonable creature is one and the same thing so to be a probable thing and to be approved by two or three Doctors are not different things according to them o Respendi si Dianae librns Episcopus ille interdixit ut merces viderint ●onsules Reipub. Patres ad quem pertineat interdicere merces si eofdem interdixit ut nocivos per accidens nullam injure im Dian it in●nlie sue full upus jure Neme enemin sus dome ten tur telerare librum etiam bondm quia suis sit pernicios●… per accidens Caram p. 89. But yet if the Church do censure any one of these opinions approved by these Doctors they will take this censure for a rule of policy or prudence by which sometimes good things are forbidden because they may be hurtfull by accident This is Caramouel's answer to one who advised with him concerning Books prohibited by a Bishop But if the Church pretend to condemn them as wicked they will oppose themselves thereto as to an unjust and unsufferable enterprise or rather wholly impossible and would say aloud p 〈…〉 condemnav●e hic jam habent docti aliquid qu●d pa●umter tolerare non possent non enim damnari possunt lib i aut opinion s qui à doctas leguator pp. 〈…〉 laudant●… Ibid. That it is not in the power of any one whosoever it be to condemn opinions no more then books which are approved and commended by learned men And after all when a Council assembled doth expresly condemn them they will not perhaps submit themselves to their judgement since they cannot condemn them more expresly than the Council of Trent hath condemned the Lutheran errours and yet notwithstanding this condemnation a Doctor of these Probabilities abstains not from making a Lutheran to say that his Sect and his Religion is probable without opposing him therein Cur non licebit ●arsanomeno dicere Roman●m quid●m Eccleuam esse prababilissimam atque adeo in soro intreno ●sse seemissimam Et tamen hoe ipso nonobstante Lutheronam quam ipse prefitus esse etiam probabilem atque aeque Christianam securam Imo securio●em omnin● quoniam minus probabilis sententia si beniquior etiam securi●r est Sic discurret etiamum Barsanomenns deberet à lector erudi●e compesci Caram p. 472. On the contrary he testifies that he is not far from his opinion and that it is a consequence of the rules and principles of this Probability sending the Lutheran to those who hold the contrary to receive from them an answer unto his reasons as not finding therein any thing to answer and believing them to be solid and invincible because probable For this is the secret and scope of this Science to make all things probable that we may do and say what we will joyning unto Probability a certainty and kind of infallibility for ensuring this Science and the consciences of those who follow it in such manner that they are secure from the fear of Gods Judgements the Authority of the Church and the censure of all the men in the World ARTICLE III. That the Divinity of the Jesuits is obsequious and mercenary IT will appear sufficiently that the Divinity of the Jesuits is wholly complacent of it self in that it is proper to give content to the whole World and they can following their principles quiet all sorts of consciences in satisfying the desires of all sorts of persons And in this it is servile and mercenary because there is no servitude more base than to flatter the passions of others and so much the more because this is not done but because such are slaves to their own proper lusts This is clear by what I have produced out of their Books in the former Chapter and it is a consequence so evident and necessary from their principles that I might forbear to prove it more particularly Notwithstanding it will not be unprofitable herein yet to produce some more examples which may serve to give greater light and greater clearness to the most simple and incredulous Escobar enquires q Petit consulens aut poenitens sibi exprimi quae sit sententia probabilior Escob in precemio exam 3. cap. 6. num 24. p. 28. What must be said to a penitent or other man who demands which of two opinions is more probable He answers that he to whom this person addresses himself ought to tell him that which he esteems more probable in his conscience supposing he demands to know that which is most probable in it self and in the Theory r Quod si solum ex practica obligatioue sciscitatur potest consu●ere quod minus probabil● judicat Imo m●iorem se geret consiliarium saepe id consulens quod facilius cum minori periculo ●…u incommodo praestart p●tes● Ibid. But if he desires only to know what he ought to do in the practice we may advise him to do that which is less probable and we shall oftentimes do him better service by advising him to that which is more easie and which he may do with less danger and inconvenience Greater obsequiousness cannot be desired since this goes beyond the thought of the man who demanded the best advice For instead of counselling him that which is absolutely best according to his demand this Author would have us counsel him that which is less probable provided it be more easie and agreeable to his humour And to remove from his Director the scruple