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truth_n	false_a	know_v	true_a	4,114	5	4.5846	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

opinion that tends to change into Idolatry the veneration which they owe to their Soveraign Pastor where the Church is profaned by an impiety that dishonours and exposes it to the outrages of its enemies and finally where Jesus Christ is horribly blasphemed by a Sacrilegious parity which they endeavour to establish betwixt his sacred words and those of his Minister by making the one as well as the other the object of Divine Faith Some one 〈…〉 say it is an extravagance which deserves not to have such notice taken of it and this without question will be the pretext to move you to connive at such an excesse But you ought to consider My Lords that how extravagant soever the opinion may be It is advanc'd by persons who may give a just occasion to apprehend strange consequences of it For clearly it is not by chance or the blind passion of some one private person that it now comes to light but of old there have been dispositions laid for the introducing it nor was it ushered in with such pompe and ceremony but just at that nick of time which they conceived most favourable to procure it a successeful acceptance and in which they thought not any one would have the boldnesse to hold up his hand in opposition to it Their pretensions perchance are not yet ripe enough to draw a formal approbation of it from the Bishops but their hopes are since we must speak the plain truth that their credit and the power which of late they have got of doing both good and bad Offices will at least be able to keep them in silence so that not one shall dare attempt the condemnation of it for fear of drawing on his head the vengeance of so potent a Society and that the Sorbone which now they think they have brought to their beck will never have the confidence to censure it what aversion soever it may have inwardly for it They hope then under the favour of this silence and whilst the whole world shall seem buried in sleep dum dormirent homines this cockle which they have sowed in the fields of the Church will take root and grow up by the advantage of the season In the mean time they will leave it to grow to maturity according to their manner of expression relinquent tempori maturandum and when it shall be fully ripe they will extract the natural consequences that necessarily must spring from it For the present they tell us modestly one may believe with Divine Faith such like particular Facts but we shall shortly hear that we are bound to believ them which grad●tion will be easie for them to establish because it follows by a necessary consequence out of their principle it being certain that no man can believe with Divine Faith but what is a matter of Faith and what is such ought of necessity to be believed in that nature when it shall be sufficiently proposed It i● enough for their turns at present that the Bishops do not condemn this opinion but we shall see them ere long inveagle them in to be the approvers of it according to an other of their Maximes which is That the Church doth approve all such Doctrines as ●t suffers without making opposition It highly concerns you My Lords to reflect on the danger whereunto not only the Church but you your selves are also exposed lest one day the Jesuits bring you in for abettors of their Heresie and God himself lay it to your charge For though it be a most false error that the Church approvs all opinions which it doth not suppresse it is notwithstanding a constant truth confirmed by Popes and Councils that God imputeth to Pastors the approval of errors which they did not in due time oppose Error cui non resistitur approbatur Qui non corrigit resecanda committit Which made the second Council of Tours declare that the Shepheard seem'd to side with the Woolf as often as he did not hinder the slaughter of his flock having the power to do it And St. Leo speaking of those that were negligent in applying remedies to the grievances of the Church lays them all at their doors Qui multam saepe nutriunt pestilentiam dum necessariam dissimulant adhibere medicinam But these are reflexions altogether needlesse to be suggested to you My Lords whose zeal and Pastoral vigilance is of greater force to represent you what is expedient for the good of the Church in these occasions then all the discourses that can be made you It is enough for private Divines to lay before your eyes the emergent evils and deep wounds inflicted on its Doctrine and only to say to each of you in particular the same which a Prophet said to God Vide Domine considera See and consider what Doctrine is taught in the Church whereof you are the Masters Their duty extends no further and this done they may take up their rest and lament before Almighty God in Silence and Humility Paris the 1st of January 1662. FINIS