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A25851	Mysteriou tes ayomias, that is, Another part of the mystery of Jesuitism or, The new heresie of the Jesuites, publickly maintained at Paris, in the College of Clermont, the XII of December MDCLXI ... according to the copy printed at Paris : together with The imaginary heresie, in three letters, with divers other particulars ... never before published in English.	Arnauld, Antoine, 1612-1694.	1664 (1664)	Wing A3729; ESTC R32726	88,087	266

above that of General Councils and beyond the limits which have alwaies been most religiously conserved in the Church of France having heard the Syndic of the Faculty of Theologie and Monsieur Vincent de Meurs Doctor in the said Faculty of the College of Navar who was to preside at the said Dispute and the said Droüet the Respondent who had all been sent for in pursuance of the Decree of the 19 of this Month as also having heard the King's Council in their Conclusions the Court hath prohibited and forbidden and doth prohibit and forbid the said Droüet to defend the said Thesis hath ordained and doth ordain that it be supprest together with all the rest that shall be found to contain such like Propositions prohibits and forbids all Bachelors Licentiats and Doctors and other persons to write defend and dispute to reade and teach directly or indirectly in the publick Schools or elsewhere any such like or other Propositions contrary to the Ancient Doctrine of the Church to the holy Canons Decrees of General Councils to the Liberties of the Gallican Church and to the Ancient Decrees of the Faculty of Theologie of Paris under pain to be proceeded against according to their demerits Prohibits the Syndic of the said Faculty and the Doctors who shall there preside at the Acts to suffer any such Propositions to be inserted in any Thesis Ordains that this present Decree be read at the general Assembly of the said Faculty of Theologie to be holden in Sorbon the first day which the Court shall command in the presence of two Counsellors of the said Court who together with one of the Substitutes of the King's Attourney-General shall go thither expresly for that purpose To which Assembly shall be summoned all the Doctors of the said Faculty as also even the Bachelors of the first Licence And this Decree shall be Registred in the Registers of the said Faculty and signified to the Rectors Deans and Proctors of the other Faculties there to be Read and Registred and sent to other Universities as also to the Bayliages and Stewardships of this Jurisdiction there to be likewise Read Publish'd and Registred by the procurement of the Substitutes of the King's Attourny-General who within one Month are to make Certificate thereof to the Court. Given in Parliament the 22 Jan. 1662 3. Signed Robert Collationed Notes upon it The Errour of the First Proposition lies in the word supra above for the French Church holds the Pope to have the highest Authority in the Church that is over particular men but not over the whole Church for so it professed in the Council of Trent that it was the Faith of France received from the Councils of Constance and Basil that a General Council is above the Pope as also hath been practised by divers General Councils The Errour of the Second Proposition is That the Privileges of Ancient Churches such as the French Church is come from the Indulgence of the Pope and not from the Succession to the Apostles and Apostolical Founders of them and their first Institution The form of which Churches is to be the Rule to all Christian Churches by whomsoever they are founded nor is it lawfull to bring in new forms without violating Divine Right delivered in the constant Tradition of the Church The Errour of the Third Proposition consisteth in this That it takes away the Practice of the Church begun by the Apostles and continued to the Council of Trent is against manifest Experience and in effect takes away all efficacity of extinguishing Heresies and Schisms reducing it to the weak principle of the Pope's Infallibility and extraordinary Power of which enough is above delivered in proportion to these short Notes to shew how dangerous the mentioned Errours are and how necessary to be condemned and avoided by all good Christians as pernicious both to Church and State Postscript Since the foregoing News 't is advertis'd that the contrary to the before-condemned Theses hath been publickly defended by the Son of Monsieur Le Tellier one of the chief Ministers of State the Arch-Bishop of Paris himself presiding FINIS

Boulogne and that whosoever should dare maintain this Translation was unjust did erre both from the Truth and Catholick Faith Fuit igitur à Basileensi Civitate legitima pro tunc nostra Concilii dissolutio asserentes contrà sunt penitus ab omni veritate fide Catholica alieni And yet notwithstanding the Fathers of the Council of Basil persisting that this Translation was unjust and null Eugenius was forc'd to acknowledge by another as authentick a Bull that in effect it was void and that the Council was alwaies legitimately assembled from the beginning of it to that very time You may find both the one and the other of these Bulls in Raynaldus the first in the year 1433 and the latter in Anno 1434. Now shall both of these be embrac'd for Articles of Faith And shall we be oblig'd to believe that the same Council at the very same time was an Unlawfull Conventicle and a Lawfull Council of the Universal Church assembled by the Holy Spirit The same Raynaldus mentions a Bull of Eugenius the IVth against the Cardinal d' Arles Ad Ann. 1640. who presided at the Council of Basil wherein he is call'd Iniquitatis alumnus atque perditionls filius If the Suffrage of the Popes in the Judgments which they make concerning Persons by their Bulls are to be reputed as Infallible as that of Jesus Christ we should be oblig'd to hold this Cardinal for a very wicked Caitiff But what shall we think if God have judg'd otherwise concerning him and that far from willing us to detest him as a Child of Iniquity and a Son of Perdition he would have us to reverence him for one of the Blessed confirming his Sanctity by publick Miracles authoriz'd by another Pope which was Clement the VIIth who has by an authentick Bull enroll'd him among the number of the Happy by declaring not that he had done Penance after his being a Child of Iniquity but that he had alwaies led a most heavenly chast and immaculate life as it is to be seen in that Bull of his Beatification recited at large by Ciaconius These are some Examples which sufficiently discover to us the false pretence of these Jesuites But without seeking farther the very Authors of this Doctrine find themselves plung'd in Heresie by the undeniable sequel of their Errours For they maintain in this very Conclusion That Pope Honorius has taught nothing in his Epistles but what was most consonant and agreeable to the Catholick Faith concerning the two Wills and two Operations in Jesus Christ Duas in Christo Voluntates Operationes fuisse profitemur nec aliud à nobis sensit Honorius dum Operationem Christi unicam esse scripsit Now if this be a point of Faith as these Jesuites pretend That the Book of Jansenius is Heretical and that the Five Propositions are of this Author because two Popes have affirmed it and that we are oblig'd to consider what they say in those Particulars as if J. Christ had himself pronounc'd it with how much greater reason may we affirm the same of Pope Honorius's Epistles which have both been examin'd condemn'd and Burnt by a General Council of the whole Church where the Pope himself presided by his Legats and which has been confirm'd as to this very point and Article by two other General Councils more and by a very great number of Popes beside For if ever Popes speak out of the Chair it is then when they speak with the General Councils and confirm them by their Apostolical Authority And thus doubtless Leo Epist ad Constan Pope Leo the Second spake out of his Chair when in several of his Epistles which he wrote to confirm the VIth Oecumenical Council he did in particular ratifie the Condemnation of Honorius and pronounced him Anathema because he had not enlightned the Apostolical Church they are the express words by the doctrine of Apostolical Tradition but suffered her to be defiled by a prophane Tradition Qui hanc Apostolicam Ecclesiam non Apostolicae Traditionis doctrinâ illustravit sed prophanâ Traditione maculari permisit And by consequence if then when the Popes dictate from their Chair whatsoever the Subject be matter of Right or Fact they have the same Infallibility with Jesus Christ and that all which they pronounce is an Article of Faith it ought to be as much a matter of Faith that the Epistles of Honorius are Heretical and the person who denies it after assent to this general Maxime bears the most notorious mark of an Heretick according to S. Paul which is to be self-condemned It would not signifie in the least to have recourse to that pretended falsification of the Acts of the VIth Council and the Epistles of Leo the Second For as this pretence is altogether unmaintainable frivolous and extravagant as even the most devoted Bishops to the Jesuites have themselves acknowledged in the last Assembly of the Clergy were there onely this miserable evasion to excuse us from believing with a divine Faith that Honorius was justly Anathematiz'd and his Epistles legally condemn'd as replete with Heresies we must certainly have renounc'd our common Senses to form any other judgment concerning that Pope and not to hold his Epistles for Heretical But as it is the property of Errour to destroy it self He that should be engaged by this novel Opinion of the Jesuites necessarily to hold that the Epistles of Honorius are Heretical by the same would find himself oblig'd to acknowledg the Fallacy of this Opinion For how should he believe that all Popes are endow'd with a like Infallibility with J. Christ what time they speak out of their Chair considering that Honorius slipt into an Errour in a conjuncture in which 't is difficult to conceive but that he did speak out of his Chair seeing he spake as a Judge in a Controversie of Faith and in order to the adjusting of the greatest difference which was then on foot in the Church and which had divided all the Oriental Patriarchs And for all this not regarding the judgment of the VIth Council and supposing what is extremely ridiculous that the Acts thereof were corrupted how should it be pretended that Honorius had in this encounter the same Infallibility with J. Christ since having by his Letters approved the heretical Epistles of Sergius Patriarch of Constantinople either he understood it as he ought and then he erred in point of Right by approving the heretical Opinion of one single Will in J. Christ which he had acknowledg'd to be in effect contain'd in this Epistle of Sergius or he understood it amiss for accepting that in a Catholick sense which Sergius had asserted in an Heretical and so he had at least erred in point of Faith So that the Jesuites can in no sort avoid the being Hereticks in either sense For if it be Heresie as doubtless it is to attribute to Popes speaking è Cathedra the same Infallibility with Jesus Christ as well

be they what they will yet the Sense of Jansenius must in general be condemn'd and it is this general and unexplicable Sense of Jansenius in which according to the Jesuites consists the Heresie of Jansenius It must be confess'd that since men did ever reason together there was never the like Extravagancy But the consequence is yet infinitely more strange For albeit the greatest part of the world laugh'd at it in particular yet they so carried it in publick as if they were of it and the Jesuites have the credit to establish this unheard-of Absurdity to introduce the practice of a Subscription which was never yet heard of in the Church unless it were amongst the Hereticks who are blam'd for it by those who have defended the Church against them For 't is requisite we should know that since the Church was a Church one has never oblig'd either Religious men or School-masters or Clerks or so much as simple Priests to sign They were the German Lutherans of the Confession of Ausburg who for one time onely caus'd their Confession of Faith to be sign'd by the Principals of the Colleges and the Masters of Schools And they are reprov'd for it by Cardinal Bellarmine as of an insupportable Vanity and a Novelty unheard-of in the Church of God ever since the Apostles Now that so strange a thing as this practice to which there was never any recourse in the most damnable Heresies should be introduc'd in France that is to say in a Church the free'st of the world and the greatest enemy to these Servitudes and upon occasion of such Trifles this is what is most stupendious indeed but in that manner which we admire the extraordinary effects of the Fantasticalness of men It is certain yet that the Jesuites could not have better publish'd to the world the excess of that credit which they have in the Church then by this means 'T is nothing to establish reasonable things no man can tell whether it be Reason or Force which has made them to be receiv'd but to make their power appear indeed one should chuse such things as these which are most excessively irrational I can say no more to exalt the power of the Jesuites and we must acknowledge that having succeeded in this Design they are able to doe what-ever is not impossible But in this as ill luck would have it the Heresie of the Sense of Jansenius which they would universally establish is one of those impossible things since to persuade the world of it they must of course change the common Sense of men so as in spight of them the Cause of their adversaries must of necessity vanquish in this last point which is as it were the ultimate Redoubt of the Jesuites I do not onely say that it must needs be so for the future and that all the pretensions of the Jesuites upon the question de facto of Jansenius should pass for ridiculous but I say 't is already so because they do pass for such already amongst all persons who have any cognisance of those matters and that there are very few of them but are disabus'd This I have demonstrated by other proofs in my precedent Letters and therefore I satisfie my self for this time with a concluding one There are divers Bishops in France who have boldly declar'd in the face of the Church that matter of Fact and matter of Right are different things in the affair of Jansenius that all Heresie consists in a precise Dogm and that one cannot with the least shadow of Justice treat those as Hereticks whom they do not reproch with any particular Heresie because they do simply question whether any such Propositions are in a Book or no. M. de Alet M. de Vence M. de Beauvais and M. d' Anger 's clearly promote all these Propositions as certain and indubitable and you may find them all comprehended in M. de Comenge's Letter to the King which is alone sufficient to ruine all the Impostures of Father Ferrier and all the Errours of the Jesuites In the mean time these Fathers with all their credit cannot find Five other Bishops in France that dare formally to promote the Propositions contrary to those which are maintain'd by these Prelates They may find some that may speak of the conceal'd venome of the Heresie of Jansenism because they are words which signifie nothing and which they willingly yield to the strongest party But they could never yet find any that durst affirm that matter of Fact and matter of Right were things inseparable and that there was ever any Heresie without some particular Dogm because there is a certain stop to common Sense which hinders those who have never so little wit from such a degree of Extravagance But you will say at least that the Jesuites Cause has all the advantage at Rome because the Briefs are all in their favour But let me tell you Sir 'T is true the Calumnies of the Jesuites have render'd the Divines odious there because they are opposite to the unjust pretences of the Roman Court against the Sovereignty of Kings and the Jurisdiction of Bishops and therefore perhaps they are not displeas'd at Rome at the Oppression which they suffer But since they have common Sense at Rome as well as at other places all that these Divines maintain here is receiv'd there and as well believ'd as in other places indeed more generally then in France it self because Passion has not so much disturb'd their Reason and their Judgement I do not love to report things without proof and therefore I shall alledge one which is very decisive upon this particular viz. That even the Inquisition of Rome has newly authentically approv'd all that those whom they call Jansenists have taught in France upon the Question de facto de jure which is so ridiculously oppos'd by the Jesuites I conceive you will not require of me to shew you that the Inquisition has given this Judgment in favour of them under the express names of Jansenius and Jansenists You know well enough what Reasons they have to hinder them from rendring them this exact Justice But you ought to be satisfied that I shew you wherein they have render'd it in a Cause so like it that it differs only in the name And now judge whether I do not make it good What do these Divines pretend There is say they a very wide difference between defending of condemn'd Opinions and such as are repugnant to the Catholick Faith which they attribute to Jansenius Bishop of Ypres and maintaining that Jansenius Bishop of Ypres has not taught those condemn'd Opinions The First would be prejudicial to the Church and to their selves but the Second is not in any kinde so For as all Divines acknowledg there is a great deal of difference between saying that the General Councils the Church can erre in jure in condemning an Opinion which does not deserve to be condemn'd and affirming that it can

whole Church seems to become heretical For admitting what is most certain that the Church has decreed Calvinism Pelagianism and Semi-pelagianism to be Heresies and that the Doctors are those who sit in the Chair to be consulted withall upon points of Religion All Catholicks are reduc'd to a most strange perplexity For if a man shall address himself to those who are of the Jansenian party they will tell him that those who are term'd Molinists are Pelagians or at least Semi-pelagians and on the other side the Molinists will bear him down that their Adversaries are Calvinists or else Novatians Now all the Doctors of the Church Catholick are either of the one or the other party except it be some few which are not yet resolv'd whether side to embrace I leave you then to consider to what prodigious streights the minds of men are reduc'd since this is held as a Maxime That whoever fails in one point of Faith fails in all To what other refuge then does this necessity seem to compell us but to have recourse to the Faith of the Primitive Church and to limit our selves to that pure simplicity of Belief wherein we are assur'd that our first Christian Brethren attained to Salvation ANno Domini 1554. die verò primâ Decembris Sacratissima Theologiae Facultas Parisiensis post Missam de Sancto Spiritu in aede sacra Collegii Sorbonae ex more c. In the year of our Lord 1554. the first day of December the Venerable Faculty of Divinity at Paris after celebration of the Mass of the H. Ghost in the Chapell of the College of Sorbon and upon Oath taken now the fourth time assembled in the same place to determine on certain Bulls which two of our most holy Popes viz. Paul the Third and Julius the Third have as they give out granted to a sort of men who out of a singular affectation would be intitled of the Society of Jesus the which two Bulls the Senate or Court of Parliament of Paris had sent to the said Faculty by an Officer to be view'd and examin'd by them After recital of their obedience to the holy See c. it follows Sed quoniam omnes praesertim verò Theologos c. But for that all men and especially Divines should be prepar'd to give satisfaction to every one that desires to be enlightned in matters which concern the Faith Manners and Edification of the Church the said Faculty have esteem'd it their duty to satisfie what has been by the said Court commanded and requir'd Having therefore diligently and frequently read repeated and understood all the Articles of the said two Bulls and as the gravity of the thing requir'd for many months daies and hours as the manner is accurately discuss'd and examin'd it they have by an unanimous consent but with all reverence and humility to the correction of the Apostolical See thus at last concluded This novel Society insolently arrogating to themselves the Name of Jesus so licenciously and without any care in the choice admitting all sorts of persons how flagitious soever illegitimate and infamous differing nothing in their exteriour Habit from the Secular Priests in Tonsure in Canonical Hours which they repeat in private or sing publickly in the Churches in Cloisters and in silence in choice of Meats and Daies Abstinences and divers other different Ceremonies by which the state and order of Religions are preserv'd and distinguish'd as having receiv'd so many and ample Privileges Indulgences and Immunities especially in what concerns the administration of the Sacrament of Penitence and of the holy Eucharist and that without any difference or regard had to Places and Persons and even in the Office of Preaching Reading and Teaching to the great prejudice of the Ordinaries and Hierarchical function and that of other Religions yea even of Princes and Temporal Lords against the Privileges of all Universities and finally to the exceeding regret and burthen of the People This Society seems to us to violate the honour and discipline of the life Monastical and to enervate and weaken the studious pious and necessary exercise of the vertues of Abstinence Ceremonies and Austerity nay gives occasion of freely apostatizing from other Religions besides it evacuates the due obedience and subjection to Ordinaries it unjustly deprives as well the Temporal as the Ecclesiastical Lords of their just Rights excites troubles and perturbations as well in the one as the other Polity induces a world of quarrells amongst the common people multitudes of dissensions variances contentions emulations rebellions and in summe an infinity of Schisms All these particulars together with sundry others having been therefore most diligently weighed and consider'd We pronounce and judge this Society to be as to matter of Faith pernicious contrary to the peace of the Church subversive of the Monastical Religion and tending rather to Destruction then at all to Edification NOw whether this Censure of that Learned Faculty were not as prophetical as by the consequence and experience of one intire Age we have found it just and reasonable let the religious and impartial Reader candidly determine since in this fatal period and Catalysis of true Piety even this very Faculty it self the so famous Sorbon has been perverted by these Atheistical Sycophants blasphemous and profane Wretches from their primary station integrity We have produc'd this Decree to justifie what we affirm and to let all the world see how requisite it is to put a timely stop to their prodigious Exorbitancies by that noble and resolute example of the Gallican Church which God Almighty in his due season improve to the consummate unity of all devout Christians THE SENSE OF The FRENCH Church Concerning the Pope's Infallibility Power Lately declared by Authority SInce the Bishop of Rome got so much Authority in the Catholick part of the World as to be able by his Ministers and Negotiations to attempt to govern private Churches out of his own Metropolitan Diocese there has been wag'd a great War amongst Divines about the Quality of his Authority And as Man's Soul by her Powers and Operations is twofold of Understanding and Will Speculation and Practice so the Divines Questions the Gates by which such Tenets get entrance into the Church are also two-leav'd the one opens to the Power the Pope has to command assent to his Resolutions of Speculative Points the other to what Obedience is due to his Commands The party whose interest it is by application to the highest See to dilate their own privileges and exemptions from the ordinary Government of the Church instituted by Christ and received by continual Tradition to our daies have striven with all their might to possess the World that both for assent to Christian Truths and for regulating of Discipline Christ had given all power to Saint Peter and his Successor so that the whole Hierarchy in effect remain'd in him alone The rest as far as not infected by them maintained constantly the contrary and