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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91504	Les provinciales: or, The mysterie of Jesuitisme, discover'd in certain letters, written upon occasion of the present differences at Sorbonne, between the Jansenists and the Molinists, from January 1656. to March 1657. S.N. Displaying the corrupt maximes and politicks of that society. Faithfully rendred into English.; Provinciales. English	Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662.; Vaughan, Robert, engraver.	1657 (1657)	Wing P643; Thomason E1623_1; ESTC R203163	222,033	540

not been in hands fit to mannage and maintain it had it continued in those of your good friend Fillian who first started it no your Society hath owned it publickly and your Father Meyneier hath lately maintained it as a certain truth that Port-royal hath for these 35. years been engaged in a secret plot whereof Mr. de Saint Cyran and Jansenius were the chief to destroy the Mysterie of the incarnation to make the Gospel be looked upon as an apocryphall story to exterminate Christian Religion and to build up Deisme upon the ruines of Christianity Is this all Fathers will you at last be satisfied if the world believe all this of those whom you hate Will your animosity be satiated when you have made them detestable not onely to all those who are in the Church by combining with Geneva which you charge them with but also to all those that believe in Jesus Christ though out of the Church by the Deisme you accuse them of But who will not be surprized at the blindnesse of your proceedings For who do you expect will be perswaded upon your bare word without the least shadow of proof and that with all the contradictions imaginable that Bishops and Priests who have constantly preached the grace of Jesus Christ the purity of the Gospel and the obligations of Baptisme had renounced their Baptisme and the Gospel of Jesus Christ that they endeavoured nothing so much as to establish that Apostasie and that it is still the design of Port-Royal Who will believe it Fathers Do you believe it your selves wretches as you are But to what extremities are you reduced since that you must of necessitie either make good this charge or passe for the lowdest Detractors that ever were Prove it then Fathers name that Ecclesiastick of good worth which you say was present at and one of that assembly of Burg-fontain in the yeare 1621. and had discovered to your friend Filleau the design then and there undertaken to ruine Christian Religion Name those six persons who you say did in the same place lay down the grounds of the conspiracy Name him Who is meant by these Letters A.A. who you say pag. 15. is not Anthony A nauld because he hath convinced you that he was not then nine yeares of age but another who is yet alive and is too much a friend to Monsieur Arnauld to be unknown to him It seemes then you know him Fathers and consequently if you have any the least respect for Religion you are obliged to make discoverie of this impious wretch to the King and Parliament that he may be punished according to his demerits You must speak freely Fathers you must name him or expect the confusion of never being looked on hereafter otherwise then as infamous Lyars and sycophants unworthy ever to be credited T is in this manner that the good Father Valerian hath taught us that such Impostors are to be racked and put to their utmost shifts Your silence hereupon will be a full and absolute conviction that this is nothing but a diabolicall Calumnie The most implicit friends you have be forced to acknowledge that it will not be thought an effect of your vertue but your weaknesse and admire that you have been so wicked as to make it reach to the Religious women of Port-Royal and to affirme as you do p. 14. that the secret Rosary of the Blessed Sacrament composed by one of them was the first fruits of that conspiracy against Jesus Christ and p. 95. that they are inspired with all the detestable maximes of that book which if you may be credited is an instruction of D●isme Your imposters upon that writing have received a totall rout already is the defence of the Censure of the late Archbishop of Paris against your Father Brisacier You have nothing to reply thereto and yet can you not forbear wresting it after a more shamefull manner then ever to fasten on Religious women whose piety is known to all the world nothing lesse then the height of impiety Barbarous and base Persecutors are not the most retired monasteries Sanctuaries against your calumnies While these sacred Virgins do day and night adore Jesus Christ and the Blessed Sacrament according to their institution you cease not day and night from publishing it abroad that they believe him not to be either in the Eucharist or yet at the right hand of his Father and you publickly cut them off from being members of the Church even while they are secretly praying for you and the whole Church You traduce those who have neither eares to heare you nor tongue to answer you But Jesus Chr st in whom they are hidden so not to appeare but with him heares you and answers for them This day is that holy and terrible voice heard which startles Nature and comforts the Church And it is to be doubted Fathers that those who harden their hearts and ostinately refuse to heare him when he speaks as a God will be forced to heare him with confusion when he shall speak to them as a judge For in a word Fathers what account will you be able to give him of so many calumnies when he shall examine them not according to the fantasticall imaginations of your Fathers Dicastillus Gans and Pennalossa but according to the rules of his eternall truth and by the holy ordinances of his Church which is so far from palliating or excusing that crime that she not onely abhors it but hath punished it in the same manner as voluntary homicide For she hath suspended calumniators as well as murtherers from the Communion till the houre of death by the I. and II. Councell of Arles The Councell of Lateran thought those unworthy to be received ino the Ecclesiasticall State who were convicted thereof though they were reformed of it Some Popes have threatned those who had calumniated Bishops Priests or Deacons to be denyed the Communion at their death And the Authors of a scandalous Libel who could not prove what they had advanced were by Pope Adrian condemned to be whipped note Reverend Fathers flagellentur So far hath the Church ever been from the errours of your Society which is grown so corrupt as to excuse crimes great as that of Calumny that you may commit them with more impunity No doubt Fathers but you might by this means do abundance of mischief in the world if God had not so ordered it that you your selves should furnish the means to prevent it and to render all your calumnies ineffectuall For there 's no more to be done then to discover this strange maxime that exempts them from crime to deprive you of all credit thereby Calumny is unprofitable if there be not joyned with it a great reputation of Sincerity A detractor can never compasse his ends if he be not thought to abhorre detraction as a crime he is uncapable of And so Fathers your own principle betraies you You have established it for the security of your Conscience For