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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56533	Additionals to The mystery of Jesuitisme Englished by the same hand.	Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662. Provinciales.	1658 (1658)	Wing P640; ESTC R3011	88,221	157

betrayed themselves by their own complaints and expostulation they are wounded by their own weapons Sagittae ●orum factae sunt plagae corum Psal. 63. And they were the only men who Satanically zealous to maintaine these doctrines and to shew th●mselves in a manner the Patronizers of Homicides Simonies and other the like crimes have made all the noise and raised that tempest which is likely to ●●ll so heavy upon them Besides we cannot be said to have presented to our Lords of the Assembly any petition or other piece to bring them into trouble there it being certaine that it is only the Arch-Bishop him selfe that hath by his Grand Vicar presented them and consequently this Jesuiticall Secretary does Notoriously derogate from his Authority and is not afraid in his Libell to be a little too peremptory with him and to traduce him under the name of the Curez of Roven The next thing he quarrells at is that we are guilty of a frivolous busying of our selves to weed out the corruptions that may be found in bookes while they grow and thrive in mens soules whence we should endeavour to root them up This is an indeterminate charge of our idleness and want of courage in our Functions but without the least consideration that these Lesbian Maximes purposely sorewed up to a complyance with sinners whereof we find the bookes of the Casu●sts but too full are the fatall seeds of so many corruptions and ●candalls as are predominant in this unhappy age and that our time cannot haply be better employed then in endeavouring to smother them and to prevent them from growing out of those Books into mens consciences which are of themselves inclinable enough to entertaine any thing that cherishes the passions and complyes with the vergency of corrupt nature Then he tells us that it were a far better employment for our Assemblies to review the Houres of Port Royal and addes that the Faithfull committed to our charge do to this day repeat at the feet of our Altars those very prayers that are contained in that book to the reproach of Faith and scandall of the Church We never had yet the least acquaintance with the Authors of those Houres and therefore cannot be said to countenance them and it is a prerogative of God only to judge of the intentions of their hearts But it 's to be hoped this censorious Libeller will not think it much we should give them a charitable interpr●tation and should avoid upon this occasion that reproachable waxinesse of na●ure as he observes himself that is so easily wrought upon at to hearken to and countenance calumny though he himself hath not much endeavoured to avoid it heere Some more knowing and better Divines then he differ very much from his opinion of those Houres because they are not prepossessed against them as he is who supposes that the son of God is therein degraded from the title of the Redeemer of all men because it is not there expressed in the Version of certaine Hymnes though the same thing be found in severall other places and particularly in the 7th ver of the Te Dum. And we would gladly referre him to the Hymnes of the Romane Breviary corrected by Vrban VIII of blessed memory That methinks were enough to give a check to his sinistrous judgement of the persons that composed them as to what concernes that article And for the other where he alledge● that they have therein followed the version of Mar●t in the 17. ver of the 138th Psalme to take away the Invocation of Saints he betrayes his want of consicience in imposing that drift upon them since he is not ignorant that though that Version be not the more ordinary yet is it approved by above ten moderne Jnterpreters Jesuits and others men very learned and of unsuspected faith who stick close to the Hebrew text Besides that in the Hymnes Litanies and Prayers of these Hours the intercession of the Saints is therein very often insisted upon What probability is there then that if some of our Parishoners make use of them it must needs he to the great reproach of Faith and scandall of the Church He would ●urther put us into an alarme against the memory of the late Abbot of S● Cyran whom he charges with the reviving of certaine propositions of Wiclef which blast the dignity of our character But let him take good heed that this accusation which he advances to put a flurre upon him proceed not either from want of diligence in the reading of his works or an excesse of passion against that great man inclining him ●o disparage them As there is not hardly any one that is unaquainted with his excellent and glorious endeavours for the defence of the Priesthood of Iesus Christ so methinks should it be heard for any one to imagine that he had any designe to blast it in his Lettters which are all most Christian and full of piety For in a word not to medle with the two last propositions since our Divine hath no● thought to cite the places out of a prudent feare that in case we should examine them we might discover his foule play in falsifying and distorting of them he hath suppressed out of the first a word that is essentiall and of importance purposely to give it a wrong sence and to make it odious 'T is not our businesse to write a panegyrick for Monsieur de S. Cyrian but only to beare witnesse to the truth and the Author of the Pamphlet must give me leave to tell him that his way of proceeding is not justifiable In the 93. Letter which he cites we find that the Church hath a power to take a course with Priests of ill lives and to cut them off from any relation to her if she think it fit and that if she do it they are no longer to be reputed Priests but to be looked on as secular persons This faithfull Secretary hath left out the word reputed which is to be seen in all the latter editions of those Letters and was omitted onely in the first printed at Paris through the Printers negligence and is accordingly put upon his score among the other Errata at the beginning of the Book Let him then but restore that word to the passage fore-recited and he will find the Doctrine of that Letter to be the same with what is taught us by the Church in her Canons that is to say that Priests degraded and such as for their lewd lives and noto●ious crimes have been deprived of Tonsure and the long robe which are the honourable badges of the Sacerdotall Function are not to be looked upon or reputed as Priests ●●t such as are reduced to a secul●r qualification though all this supposed they do not lose the divine Character of their Ordination The case being thus ●airely cleared up we are content the Author himselfe should be judge in the difference appealing from himselfe mis-informed to himselfe better informed or lesse