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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

unto him Confertim autem percussit cum Angelus Domini eo quod non dedisset honorem Deo And yet how much lesse criminal was the flattery of that people then this of the Jesuites theirs might have passed for a sudden transport of joy not regulated by reason and sometimes the Holy Scripture it self gives the Name of God to Supream Judges and Princes But here is given to the Pope deliberately upon a laid Defign and by way of establishing a Dogmatical Assertion of Theologie not an empty and insignificant name but one of the most glorious Attributes of God and most incommunicable to a creature to wit that his Word should have entailed upon it such an infallibility as to deserve that submission of divine Faith which cannot without Idolatry be rendred to any but the first and soveraign Verity For the like cannot be said in this question which those who maintain the Popes infallibility in matters of Faith are wont to answer That in beleeving the decisions of the Pope they do not build their Faith on the word of a man because he doth but propose what hath been formerly revealed by God in Holy Scripture and Tradition and so their faith relies still on the Word of God Nothing I say like this can be applied to the matter in hand in regard whereof the Jesuites pretend That the Pope is as infallible as Jesus Christ and that his decision is an Object of Divine Faith For when the Pope shall propose a fact of the 17 th Age as that certain Heretical Propositions were taught by an Author of those times it cannot be pretended that he proposes a matter revealed in Scripture or Tradition He may well say I judge it to be thus but he cannot say God hath revealed it He may speak as from himself but he cannot say God hath spoken Dominus locutus est And as it is a man that speaks and not God all they who hold that one may beleeve with divine Faith a decision of this nature do most visibly commit the like abominable excess which that blinded people did by crying out with them Voces Dei non hominis And albeit the Popes piety be a sufficient Antidote to preserve him from being poisoned with this sacrilegious opinion nevertheless they who present this poison unto him cannot excuse themselves from being as guilty towards him as were those wretched Sycophants towards their King of whose death they were the cause by their impious flatteries For a man is not then only esteemed a murderer either of the soul or body when effectively he takes away the life of one or the other but also when he lays a cause which of its own nature is sufficient to work the death of either though the effect do not follow So S. Cyprian calls those Christians Parricides who through fear of persecution offered up to the Idols their sucking Infants because although they could not really deprive them of the life of Grace which they had received in Baptism by this Idolatry whereunto they were in no sort consenting as S. Austin remarks they did notwithstanding what lay in them to bereave them of it In illis quidem interfectionem non faciunt sed quantum in ipsis est interfectores fiunt Flatter not your selves saith S. Austin speaking to those who give occasion to others of committing sin upon account that your brother is not dead by the scandal you gave him it is true he is not dead and yet you are murderers Et ille vivit tu homicida es One may say the same to the Jesuites in respect of the Pope whom they go about to poison with so pestiferous an opinion Non sibi blandiantur quia ille non est mortuus ille vivit isti homicidae sunt But it is not the Pope only before whose feet they cast this stumbling block but even the generality of the faithful by perswading them to build their belief on the word of a man and to submit their judgements thereunto as to the first Verity which as hath been shewed cannot be done without a kinde of Idolatry Insomuch that the Jesuites are near upon the same impiety with those Hereticks who would have Divine honours exhibited to the Blessed Virgin for as the true respect and veneration due to her as the most holy of Creatures took not any thing off from the crime of those Hereticks and their followers even so the reverence which all the faithful ought to bear to the Head of the Church will in no sort exempt them from a heavy sin before almighty God if through the deceit of the Jesuites they give unto the words of a man how eminent soever he may be in the Church that soveraign difference of divine Faith which cannot without impiety be given to any thing but the Word of God himself Worldly men make small accompt of these kind of sins because being wholy buried in flesh and blood none but grosse and material Objects make Impression on them Deluded devotes permit themselves to be easily carried away with these excesses because they imagin it to be a part of their false Piety to imbrace blindly whatever contibutes to the honour and advantage of those things and persons for which they ought to have a respect and from this root are sprung all those opinions which they call pious without ever examining whether they be true or false as if a falsity could be the object of piety or that God who is truth could be honoured with the unclean Sacrifice of a Lie But you My Lord know that all those who have been nourished with the true spirit of Christianity make a far different judgement hereof they equally hate a lie to whose advantage soever it redound whether of the Pope or the Blessed Virgin or of Jesus Christ himself which yet would a little startle a man to hear had not St. Austin expresly taught it For this Holy Father fears not to maintain that if a lye or calomny which one makes use of to take away the temporal life of Man be a detestable crime That is yet a far greater which tends to the destruction of his spiritual life as all manner of lyes in matter of Religion even though employed in giving false praises to Jesus Christ For which reason the same Father says that a Christian would commit a notorious folly who would not rather expose himself to all manner of indignities even those that strike the greatest horror into pious Souls then condescend to the insolence of a person that would force him to corrupt the holy Gospel thereby to bestow false praises upon Jesus Christ Since then according to the Judgement of this great Father it would be a crime of abomination to give false honours to Jesus Christ himself who being God is above all our praise and honours how much more abominable is it to give a mortal Man invironed with infirmities as the Scripture sayes the honours that appertain to God alone

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 Lucae 5. 39. Nemo bibens vetus statim vult novum dicit enim vetus melius est LONDON Printed in the Year of our Lord 1662. THE NEW HERESIE OF THE JESUITS Publikely maintained at Paris in the Colledge of Clermont by Conclusions Printed the 12 of December 1661. Denounced to all the Bishops of France AS it is the duty of Bishops to cut off whilst they are yet in the bud the Errors that tend to the ruine of Faith so is it no less the part of Divines to make Discovery of them and stir up their pastoral vigilance by giving them a timely advice thereof For which Reason My Lords you will not I am confident disapprove the Information given you of a New Heresie publikely maintained by the Jesuites in their Colledge of Paris by Conclusions printed and defended the 12 of December past which bear in Front this Title Assertiones Catholicae de Incarnatione contra saeculorum omnium ab Incarnato verbo praecipuas haereses Catholike Assertions of the Incarnation against the principal Heresies of all Ages since Christ Whereby they sufficiently intimate that excepting some subtleties of the Schools they would have us take for Catholike truths whatever else they advance in opposition to these Heresies They propose then for the Heresie of the 10 th Age the Schism of the Grecians and pretend by the following words to prescribe us what we ought to beleeve that we fall not into this Heresie X. SAECULUM Romanae Ecclesiae Caput contra Graecos Schismaticos HOc tandem saeculo Schisma Phocii invalcscens Graecos ab Ecclesiae capite dis-junxit Christum nes ita caput agnoscimus ut illius regimen dum in caelos abiit primum Petro tum d●inde successoribus commiserit eandem quam habebat ipse infallibilitatem concesserit quoties ex Cathedrâ loquerentur Datur ergo in Ecclesia Romana Controversiarum Fidei Judex infallibilis etiam extra Concilium generale tam in questionibus Juris quam Facti Vnde post Innocentii X. Alexandri VII Constitutiones fide divinâ credi potest librum cui titulus est Augustinus Jansenii esse haereticum quinque Propositiones exeo decerptas esse Jansenii in sensu Jansenii damnatas Propugnabuntur Deo duce auspice Virgine in Aula Collegii Claromontani Societatis Jesu die 12 Decembris Anno 1661. X. AGE The Head of the Roman Church against the Schismatick Grecians IT was in this Age that the Schism of Photius growing strong cut off the Grecians from the Head of the Church for our parts we acknowledge Jesus Christ to be in such sort the Head that he hath left the government first to S. Peter and afterwards to his Successors and that he hath bequeathed unto them as often as they shall speak out of their Chair the same infallibility which he himself had Wherefore there is in the Church of Rome an infallible judge of Controversies of Faith even out of a General Council as well in Questions of right as matters of Fact for which reason now after the Constitutions of Innocent X and Allexander VII one may believe with Divine Faith that the Book of Jansenius intituled Augustinus is Heretical and that the five Propositions extracted out of it are of Jansenius and condemned in his sense This Conclusion contains two parts One the Primacy of the Pope in which all Catholicks agree The other the Infallibility which the Jesuits attribute to him Nor is the question concerning that Infallibility which some Divines maintain and which regards only the judgements of Popes touching the truths revealed by God in the Holy Scripture and Tradition It is well known what the opinions of the Gallican Church and School of Paris are upon this Subject and what is to be understood by their words Sententia Parisiensium when one meets with them in the Books even of Jesuits upon this matter It is also known that those among some modern Doctors who would be most favourable to Popes as Dr. Du Val were nevertheless of Opinion that it is not a point of Faith that the Pope is Infallible Non est de Fide summum Pontificem esse infallibilem and that the contrary opinion is neither erroneous nor rash Non est erroneum neque temerarium temeritate opinionis dicere summum pontificem in decernendo errare posse But these same Divines how passionate soever they were to exalt the authority of the Sovereign Bishops do acknowledge as a thing certain unquestionable and agreed on by all Catholicks that in matters of fact they are not infallible but may be deceived and so really have been in sundry occasions All Catholicks are of Agreement sayes Cardinal Bellarmin that the Pope acting as Pope with advice of his Council nay even of a general Council may be deceived in particular affairs depending on the information and attestation of Men. And applying this general Maxime to a particular fact altogether conformable to that of Jansenius to wit whether the Heresie of the Monothelites were contain'd in the Letters of Honorius as the VI general Council confirmed by so many Popes had determined A General Council sayes he that is a lawful one cannot erre in the definition of dogmatical points of Faith wherein the VI Council likewise was free from error but it may erre in questions of Fact Generale Concilium legitimum non potest errare ut neque erravit hoc sextum in dogmatibus Fidei definiendis tamen errare potest in questionibus de Facto And Cardinal Baronius sayes the same upon the same subject of the sixth Oecumenical Council The Condemnation even of General Councils is not received with so much rigour in what concerns mens persons and their writings For no man doubts but that whoever he be he may be deceived in matters of Fact in which occasion the saying of St. Paul is appliable we can do nothing against truth but for truth In his enim quae facti sunt unumquemque contingere posse falli nemini dubium est All other Divines even the more wedded to the interest of the Court of Rome have hitherto contain'd themselves within these bounds But the Jesuits will neither admit Bounds nor Examples in their excesses and extravagancie● It is not enough for them to make the Pope infallible in the manner as some other Divines have done they must needs have it that Jesuus Christ hath given him the same infallibility which Himself enjoyed here on earth and as this infallibility of Jesus Christ reached to all things and not only to matters revealed but also to such as till then had not been reveal'd and which he revealed by uttering them so they will have the Pope to become infallible not only in proposing to the Church the truths comprised in Divine Revelation but also