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A41099	The maxims of the saints explained, concerning the interiour life by the Lord Arch-bishop of Cambray &c. ; to which are added, Thirty-four articles by the Lord Arch-Bishop of Paris, the Bishops of Meaux and Chartres, (that occasioned this book), also their declaration upon it ; together with the French-King's and the Arch-Bishop of Cambray's letters to the Pope upon the same subject.; Explication des maximes des saints sur la vie interieure. English	Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715.; Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715. Correspondence.; Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715. Correspondence.; Noailles, Louis-Antoine de, 1651-1729.; Godet des Marais, Paul, 1647-1709.; Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, 1627-1704. Instruction sur les estats d'oraison, où sont exposées les erreurs des faux mystiques de nos jours.	1698 (1698)	Wing F675; ESTC R6318	100,920	267

of my Articles will shew all the Consequence of false Principles that tend to create the most dangerous Illusion against the Rule of Faith and good Manners and that under a shew of Perfection I shall endeavour in each Article to point at the Place where the Equivocation begins and to censure all that is ill without in the least diminishing the Authority of the Saints Experiences If our Mystical Men would give me Ear without prejudice they would quickly apprehend what my Meaning is and that I take their Expressions in a just extent of the true Sence of them I 'll even refer it to their own Judgment if I do not explain their Maxims with much more Exactness than most of them have hitherto done because I have made it my principal Business to give their Expressions clear and exact Ideas and such as are Authorised by Tradition without weakning the Foundations of the Things themselves All good Mystical Men who love nothing but Truth and the Edification of the Church ought to be satisfied with this Plan I could have added hereunto a great many formal Passages out of the Ancient Fathers as well as School-Doctors and Mystical Saints but this Vndertaking would engage me into such Lengths and innumerable Repetitions as frightned me from it for the Reader 's sake this is that which hath caused me to suppress the Collection of those Passages which I had already digested and set in Order I do suppose without any more ado this Tradition to be constant and decisive and I have confined my self to set forth here a clear System and such as is agreeable to Theological Definitions Tho' the Driness of this Method looks like a great Inconvenience yet it is less than that of a tiresome Length I have no more to do than to practise this Plan that I have given an Explanation of I look up unto God and not my self for Strength to do it who is pleased to make use of the vilest and unworthiest Instruments My Doctrine ought not to be mine but that of Christ who sends forth Pastors be it far from me to say any thing of my self may I not prosper if while I am engaged in instructing others I be not my self the most teachable and most submissive Child of the Catholick Apostolick and Roman Church I shall begin my Work with making a plain Exposition of the different Sences that may be given to that we call The Love of God in order to give a clear and distinct Vnderstanding of the State of the Questions belonging to this Matter then will the Reader meet with my Articles which approves of what is true and condemns every thing that is false in each particular relating to the Internal Life The INTRODUCTION WHen I consider the many Differences that have hapned from Time to Time between not only particular Persons of the Roman Communion but even whole Societies particucularly between the Dominicans and Franciscans and the Jesuites and almost all Others about Matters of Faith and other Religious Tenets I cannot but admire at the Boldness of some of those Gentlemen who make their Unity to be a token of their Infallibility and the divided Opinions of the Protestants an evident Mark of the Falsity of their Belief But surely it is now high time they should give over that fantastick Argument since these sort of Dissentions are more rife among themselves than any other Community in the World and they may have Work enough to do to turn their Pens that way especially since Quietism and some other Opinions in Consequence of it hath taken such Root amongst them that even some of those who are reckon'd the Pillars of the Church seem to be as good as open Favourers of it and would draw if it were possible his Holiness himself to be of the same Sentiments and so to turn all at once Heretick But among all those who have more openly espoused these new Opinions is the Lord Arch-Bishop of Cambray a Person of that Learning and Consideration in his Countrey as to have been intrusted by the French King his Master with the Education of the young Princes the Dauphine's Sons But how this Eminent Person came thus to expose himself will be somewhat worthy of our enquiry before we proceed to give an Account of the opposition he hath met with and other consequences that have attended the Publishing of his Book which is now presented to the English Readers View that he may pass his Censure also thereupon There are but a few people that have not heard of Molinos and his Doctrine of Quietism some years since broached at Rome and what industry was used by the holy Fathers Inquisitors to ruine both him and it But how rigorous soever they shewed themselves against the Author they have not yet been able to suppress his Opinions which not only have still a being and considerable Fautors amongst them in Italy but the same or something very like it which we may call Semi-Quietism upon the same account as some Ancient Hereticks were distinguished with the name of Semipelagians hath been able to make its way through the snowy Alps and enter into the Kingdom of France and agreed so well since with the Soyl of that Countrey that it will not be quickly rooted out The Rulers of the Gallican Church began to be sensible pretty early of this supposed growing Evil but the occasion of their taking a more publick notice of it was a certain Womans putting out a Pamphlet called A Short Method c. and dispersing some other Papers savouring very much of Quietism whom to reclaim from her error they took care to appoint three Counsellours to admonish and instruct her and to them the Arch-Bishop of Cambray was added for a fourth But which way things came to pass and what success soever the first three might think they had upon the Woman its likely she brought over the fourth to the Opinion or somewhat that was near it if he were not so before She was accused of being guilty of But this did not appear at present However some of the Clergy thought it high time to bestir themselves in the matter and particularly the Arch-Bishop of Paris the Bishops of Meaux and Chartres did believe the foundation of their Church to have been so far struck at by such proceedings that they framed thirty four Articles on the 16th and 26th of April 1695. wherein they set forth what every Christian ought to believe and act and what to reject as erroneous and noxious to the Souls of Men Hereupon the Arch-Bishop of Cambray led by what fate I know not took upon him to compile this Work Entituled The Maxims of the Saints Explained and therein to give a more full Explication of the said thirty four Articles but did it in such a manner as allarmed the whole body of the French Clergy but more particularly the Authors of the said Articles who with divers others failed not to make Complaints thereof to