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A93040	The journal of Monsr. de Saint Amour doctor of Sorbonne, containing a full account of all the transactions both in France and at Rome, concerning the five famous propositions controverted between the Jansenists and the Molinists, from the beginning of that affair till the Popes decision. / Faithfully rendred out of French. ; A like display of the Romish state, court, interests, policies, &c. and the mighty influences of the Jesuites in that church, and many other Christian states, being not hitherto extant.; Journal. English	Saint-Amour, Louis-Gorin de, 1619-1687.; Havers, G. (George)	1664 (1664)	Wing S296A; ESTC R225933	1,347,293	723

took upon us to be at Rome in its name I told his Eminence that the degree of Doctor being inseperable from the persons that have the honour to be of it I conceiv'd he consider'd the same in us though we were not imployed by the Faculty but by some of my LL. the Bishops of France for the purposes I had formerly had the honour to signifie to his Eminence Our conference continu'd not long Cardinal Rapaccioli coming to call his Eminence to go abroad and so it concluded in complements We went on Wednesday the 20. to visit the seven Churches Going to S. Peter's in the morning I met F. Mulard in the street of the Hat-Sellers who was buying some to return into France he told me would not go now the season was so far spent were it not that he was constrain'd by people that had power to command him but he hoped he should come back shortly to Rome with M. Hallier That the Pope would for certain passe a Judgment in the case That it was reported that he would be contented with imposing silence as to our matters but his mind was now otherwise I desir'd him to remember me to M. Hallier and assure him that himself could not be more desirous to be at Rome then I was to see him there When we were return'd from the seven Churches F. Mariana came to put me in remembrance of some visits which he thought expedient for us to make He told me when I askt him the question that people seem'd very joyfull for the arrival of our Collegues and spoke very well of it But he said he heard from a certain person that there had escap'd from one of us some word against the Council of Trent but he had answer'd that it was a slander and a falsity as indeed he had reason there not having been the least pretext or ground for that accusation On Fryday the 22. M. Brousse and my self went to see the General of the Augustines Amongst other things he told us that F. Mulard came to visit him as Envoy from the Faculty of Divinity at Paris and wonder'd when we assur'd him that he was neither a Deputy nor a Doctor of it He advis'd us very earnestly to forbear speaking of Jansenius and promis'd to contribute with us what he could do for the interest of S. Augustin's doctrine In a Visit I made in the afternoon to F. Barelier he told me his General could not be spoken with till after two dayes because of a hundred or sixscore letters which he was to prepare against the next day for Italy but he had already mention'd our businesse to him and said that we could not but be very welcom provided we spoke of none but S. Augustin and S. Thomas All the Festivals were spent in Devotions Ceremonies and Visits active and passive of our particular friends I saw one thing at Vespers at the Church of S. Lewis where we were on Christmasse day which deserves in my judgement to be set down here The prayers of 40. hours had been there and ended that day At the end of Vespers a Procession was to be made and the H. Sacrament was to be carried about in order to being shut up after the procession and accustomed ceremonies We had the honour to carry the Canopy As we were comming out of the Church Card. Giori was passing by He caus'd his Coach to stop the boot to be taken down and fell upon his knees while the Procession was passing When the Sacrament appear'd he alighted accompanied it and enter'd with us into the Quire and there stay'd upon his knees till all the prayers and ceremonies were ended When the Festivals were over I went to the Popes Maistre de chambre who for that the Venetian Ambassador newly arriv'd was to have his first audience that morning and Cardinal Raggi was afterwards to present to the Pope the Conservators of the people of Rome newly elected referr'd us for our audience to the Tuesday ensuing Having quitted him I went to the high Masse in the little Church of S. Thomas of Canterbury at the end of which approaching to Cardinal Barberin in the Sacristie we fell to speak of the Abbot of Bourzeis his not enduring that any thing should be spoken in the printed books about our contests against the Bull of Vrban VIII whereupon Cardinal Barberin rejoycing O said he to me M. de Bourzeis è mio grand amico On Saturday the 30th going in the afternoon for recreation to see the more considerable places of Rome as we pass'd by Ara coeli we met Fryer Archangel who told us that F. Mulard was gone and that he was gone encharg'd with Procurations and letters of recommendation from Card. Barberin to negotiate in France about the affair of the Five Propositions to return speedily and bring M. Hallier with him I askt him concerning M. Hallier's letter which F. Mulard refus'd to shew me he told us it was a thing not hard to be seen for he had given Copies of it to several Cardinals and he nam'd Roma and Ginetti that he Fr. Archangel transcrib'd them to present to their Eminences but had kept no Copy for himself they being too long and in a very small hand and requiring five or six hours to transcribe one And by all that he told me I found that what had been signify'd to me thereof by others not so clearly inform'd as Fr. Archangel was neverthelesse very true CHAP. XV. An Account of some Sermons which M. Brousse made upon the way of Die against the Calvinists of that City touching the possibility of God's Commandements AMongst the particularities which my Collegues related to me of their journey they told me of the stay which the Abbot of Valcroissant made at his Abbey during which M. Brousse had occasion to hear preach at Die a considerable Minister of that City which is almost wholly Calvinistical and to refute what he had said in his Sermon That which I heard mention of in familiar discourse seemed to me so considerable that I desir'd the Abbot of Valcroissant to set it down in writing for preserving the remembrance of it He did so and the account he gave of it deserves as I conceive to have a place in this Journal In our journey from Lyons to Marseilles in order to take Sea we pass'd through the City of Die in Dauphine where the Calvinists have a Colledge one of the most considerable that they have in France We stay'd there some dayes by reason my Abby is a league distant from that City During which time M. Brousse seeking occasion to evince the truths of the Catholick faith against the Hugonots went to the Church on Sunday the 22. of Octob. to hear the Sermon of the Minister nam'd Dise who took for the Theme of his Discourse the 6. verse of the 8. chap. of the Epistle to the Romans Nam prudentia carnis mors est prudentia autem Spiritus vita pax From which

The General said that they doubted him much more since the late Declaration he made what part and interest he took in this affair He told me some particularities of M. Hallier's visite to him ten or twelve dayes before which I do not repeat here because they are mention'd in the relation of it before inserted I went again to la Minerve in the afternoon to shew F. Reginald some Propositions of S. Augustin which F. Adam knowing for such tax'd of impiety and heresie As I was shewing the same to him in that Jesuites book under the Cloister the General pass'd by to go into the City we shew'd them to him too and he thankt me for the double obligation which he said he receiv'd from me that day As I was coming from la Minerve I met F. Angelo Ricci who told me he had heard in several places in the houses of Cardinals and Prelates and one might be assur'd of what he said he was so wise reserv'd and circumspect that many bad tenets were imputed to us from which he advertis'd us to endeavor to defend and justifie our selves These bad tenets were he said concerning Venial sins Publike Pennance and the Pope's power He was one of those who were troubled at our resolution not to informe the Congregation at all whilst it remain'd secret and acted in obscurity as it did Wherefore to remedy this his conceit as well as I could I told him that the best and soveraign means to purge us from those calumnies was the Congregation which we demanded before which our Adversaries might impute what they pleas'd but yet should be oblig'd to keep to certain heads upon which after we were well justifi'd they would be no longer creditable in imputing the same or any others to us For which end it was requisite that we endevor'd the obtaining of such a Congregation before which all things being clear'd calumnies would be destroy'd and confounded and till then we ought to suffer them with patience since we could neither hinder them nor defend our selves from them He exhorted me however that seing the Signori on whom we depended would not grant what we demanded we would conforme to their course being the more stedfast we persisted in the contrary the more danger we should be in to exasperate them The great goodnesse and gentlenesse of so accomplisht a Gentleman and vertuous an Ecclesiastick oblig'd me to tell him for his satisfaction if it might prove so that though the Congregation we demanded seem'd to us so easy and necessary a means for discovering the falsehood and malice of those calumnies yet if we could employ any other that were capable to overthrow them we would willingly do it Thursday the 20th I had much talk with M. Hallier and his Collegues in the Pope's Presence-chamber where they spoke many remarkable things and M. Hallier amongst others very contemptuous words against the Arrests and authority of the Court of Parliament And touching the voices of Mendicant Doctors whom we endevor'd to reduce to two suffrages of each Order in the Assemblies of our Faculty they told me they were perswaded that we did not attempt it but only to the end we might more easily establish the points of doctrine which we had a mind to introduce there But I think it more fit to passe over this Dialogue then to recount all the particularities of it which I writ down the same day Friday the 21. I went to carry the General of the Augustines a Copy of our Memorials He thankt me for them and told me he had had audience of the Pope that day seven night about other affaires yet took occasion to mention ours and represented to him that it was a very difficult and hazardous matter that it could not be searcht with too much warinesse that no precautions and diligences ought to be neglected in it because it was manifest that the five Propositions were invented onely to ruin and and overthrow S. Augustin's doctrine Whereupon the Pope answer'd him that he would have either side heard and that in his own presence Vogliamo che tutti siano sentiti inanzi di noi This good General out of the abundant joy which this hope gave him told me there was yet an excellent means of making this examen and discovering the effects of Nature and Grace namely by considering a little with attention and reflection all that passes daily within our selves He told me also that we must be prepar'd with three things in order to refutation of what our Adversaries might oppose to us First to explicate solidly some principal passages of S. Augustin which they alwayes objected to us Secondly to do the like with some of the Council of Trent which they likewise made use of Thirdly to observe very distinctly wherein consisted the Doctrin of Calvin and declare how it was different from that of S. Augustin He said It was a shame to see the Writings of our Adversaries in which they boldly cited false Councils which having had the curiosity to search he found to be such He shew'd me many sheets of Paper written with his own hand containing Observations which he had already made upon this affair He had collected all that pass'd in Cardinal Spada's Congregations And being I wonder'd at his great pains and exactnesse amidst his many other businesses inseparable from his quality of General He told me he never spar'd his pen to ease his memory He said 't was a strange thing that Vasquez having without contract taken the liberty to explicate the Propositions of the Bull of Pius V. without complaint ever made thereof by any body yet the same act was a crime of State in Jaensenius That the answer which they gave in this case was that Vasquez ly'd and that Cardinal Tolet had not writ in his Journal that which Vasquez saith was told him by that Cardinal Which was neither a good answer nor a proof that Vasquez ly'd because the Cardinal might have told him a thing by word of mouth which he had forgot to set down in his Journal He lent me the book of Turrienus printed at Lyons 1623. to read the Bull of Pius V. in it He had noted it with his own hand in divers places and I found that in pag. 611. right against this paragraph Deinde sciendum est inexpositione this General had writ these words Die 7. Febr. 1653. Cardinal Spada dixit Vasq mentiri quia aliter reperitur in M. S. ejusdem Toleti Which was a secret reveal'd innocently and without incurring excommunication which who so had reveal'd it knowingly could not have escap'd This I suppose was spoken by Cardinal Spada to ward off some objection which he could not otherwise avoid and was a new proof of his engagement in the defence of the contrary party Comming from this visite I made another in which I learn't that Cardinal Barberin said in discourse with Cardinal S. Clement the day before that it was ill done to set upon

that yet the cause hath need of them for 't is the cause of truth and God is sruth whe needeth not either our goods or care I read their Letter to M. de Chaalory but I see not that it is requisite to think of what you propose till his Holinesse have granted a Congregation like that de Auxiliis if I flatter not my self methinks what is hitherto done is a perfect preparation to it We are threatned here with a Censure within eight dayes and 't is bruited that the Pope is to passe it in coena Domini but we are very undaunted I am c. Another Doctor of my friends writ to me on the 15th of the same Month in these terms The Molinists affirm that we are condemn'd and that all which is done with so great solemnity is done only to make the Judgment more notorious powerful against us I never heard them speak to us so as they have done since the arrival of the last Post I have sure conjectures that their three Antagonists have written hither The same person making a general reflexion in another Letter upon the manner of proceeding in our affair at Rome after many complaints and regrets wherewith he affirm'd his heart was full spoke thus to me Is it possible for Truth to be so ill treated in the place where it ought to be as in its Throne and where its enemies ought not to behold it but with trembling It must be hop'd that God will confound all those who so oppresse it and that one day it will be like a mighty Rock to overwhelm them if not in this world at least in that wherein all the most hidden things shall be revealed CHAP. XVIII Of the first certain intelligence which I receiv'd May 4. that the Constitution was made against the Propositions And of the Audience which F. Des-mares and M. Manessier had of the Pope the same day THe first of May being come I understood that the feast of the two Apostles solemnis'd that Day did not hinder the Assembly of the H. Office before the Pope Also that M. Hallier and his Collegues went not only to Cardinal Spada's Palace to wait upon him to Monte Cavallo but also waited his return and reconducted him home after which they went to le Giefu to visite some Jesuites All which implyes the most intimate correspondence and dependence between them that can be imagin'd Sunday ●he 4th I receiv'd a visit in the morning from a well inform'd person who assut'd me that there was a Bull or Constitution prepar'd by which the Propositions were condemn'd and I cannot doubt but it was the same which was since publisht F. Des-mares and M. Manessier and I were ready to go to the Pope's audience I took with me the Bishops Letter of Febr. 24. which we had forborn to deliver for fear of exasperating minds and I resolv'd alone to present it to his Holinesse if we were admitted seeing there was no more time to sollicite for any thing I would not dismay my new Collegues with the bad newes which I had lately receiv'd But saying nothing to them about the same desir'd them to go before to the Pope's Presence-Chamber where I should be as soon as they intending to make a short visit by the way The person whom I visited was one who had disswaded us from delivering the said Letter for fear of producing ill blood I told him that I was going to deliver it seeing the Condemnation was already made and nothing was likely to avert it but such an earnest and powerful Remonstrance as this Letter My friend was amaz'd at my confident asserting the notice which I gave him and supposing it true as I assur'd him he consented to the delivering of it since it could do no hurt Immediately I came to F. Des-mares and M. Manessier in the Pope's Presence-Chamber and the Maistre de Chambre to go back to the Pope and to tell him that I desir'd to be admitted with them and so I retir'd into the common Antichamber with the Letter in my hand which I had deliver'd to the Pope if I had been admitted to audience and let F. Des-mares and M. Manessier go alone they were there three quarters of an hour I cannot better relate what pass'd in this audience then the following Letter doth which they writ concerning it the next day to our Bishops My Lords SInce our coming to this City we have been employ'd chiefly in two things First To peruse the Writings prepar'd by our Collegues that we might sign the same jointly with them and have them in readinesse to present to the Pope when it should please him to hear us And secondly to obtain audience of his Holinesse Whereunto being admitted yesterday morning we told our H. Father that our Collegues having represented to you my Lords that in hope that his Holinesse would establish a solemn Congregation wherein they might contradictorily defend the true sense of the Five famous Propositions according to S. Augustin's doctrine in presence of their Adversaries and before the Apostolical Tribunal of his Holinesse they foresaw that in the progresse of the Conferences they might have need of some assistance for the more easie and speedy discharging of the duties of their Commission and you had sent us not only for that purpose but also to make new instances in your name to his Holinesse for the establishment of such a Congregation as you had caus'd our Collegues to demand several moneths before Our H. Father answer'd us that to satisfie the desires of the Bishops of France who demanded his judgement touching the Five Propositions he had assembled his Divines and heard them sundry times with great care and patience upon the senses of those Propositions and that not contented herewith he had appointed publick prayers to obtain such light from God as was necessary for passing his judgement upon them That moreover he hop'd to restore peace to the Church by other wayes then Disputes We reply'd that we had recourse to the H. See to obtain the same peace but that these Bishops of France who sent us to procure it desir'd with all good men that it might be a true sound and permanent peace which was not to be hop'd in the present circumstances without the establishment of the solemn Congregation which we most humbly demanded of his Holinesse He answer'd that the prime and supreme Vicar of Jesus Christ was not oblig'd to examine all things by Disputation That 't was sufficient that he took such meanes as he judg'd fitting to form his judgement upon the controversies propounded to him and that after this we ought to believe that the inspiration of God would not be wanting to him for understanding the bottome thereof and deciding the same infallibly and the truth of those Decrees depended onely salamente upon that Divine inspiration Our reply was my Lords that our demand agreed very well with our beliefe that God watches particularly over the

were come to Rome about a sacred and important affair he willingly granted us all the Indulgences which we desired of him And thus we retir'd wishing to our H. Father all kind of prosperity and we declar'd to him that we would by the grace of God live always most firmly addicted to the H. See and the doctrine of S. Augustin as being that of the H. See and which should ever be as dear to us as the apple of our eyes These were the termes wherewith we took leave of his Holinesse who honor'd us with his approbation and testimonies of his good will You have my Lords a compendious account of what his Holinesse said to us in this audience which lasted an hour and half and in which his Holinesse left us not upon our knees but caus'd us to rise up immediately after we had begun to speak to him and treated us in all the rest with a particular goodnesse This his Holines's declaration seem'd to us so important and so contrary to the design of our adversaries that to use precaution against the attempts which we fear'd they might haply employ one day to call it in doubt we took care to make exact report thereof to all persons of whom we took leave afterward that so the thing might become publick before our departure and our adversaries likewise might be convinc'd of the truth of all that we affirm'd to have pass'd in this audience since we would not have been so rash or impudent as to publish here in the sight of his Holinesse so considerable a declaration if it had not been most certain And indeed my Lords there is no person in this city who hath heard of our affair but knows at present this declaration of his Holinesse it hath been as notorious as the Decree and given as much joy to all S. Augustin's disciples who are here in great number as our Adversaries testifi'd for the passing of the Constitution When we took leave of the Ambassador yesterday he told us that he knew already all that had pass'd in our Audience and related the particulars which we here send you adding That his Holinesse upon all occasions wherein he had spoken to him about this Affair alwayes declar'd to him that he would not meddle with the matter of Effectual Grace nor do any prejudice to the Doctrine of S. Augustin or S. Thomas and he had written to this purpose to the Court by this Post You see My Lords by the things which the Pope said to us in this Audience and by the Relation which we sent you of what we spoke to him when we were heard publickly that the Five Propositions are not condemn'd but by reason of their had senses wherein we our selves alwayes condemn'd them and that the sense in which we said we understood and defended them or rather that the particular Propositions which we presented to his Holiness and maintain'd before him as most Catholick not only receive no prejudice but also ought to be accounted as approv'd by his Holinesse as appears by the following Reasons The first Reason is My Lords because we declar'd to his Holiness publickly both by Speech and Writing That we and all the other disciples and defenders of S. Augustin would alwayes defend the Catholick sense of the Propositions which we presented to him as containing the indubitable Doctrine of that great Doctor of Grace being also that of the Church till his Holiness should pronounce an expresse and definitive judgement upon the particular sense which we held to be Catholick by which it might evidently appear and be indisputable that they were condemn'd in this sense These are the expresse words of our Declaration which we sent you almost a month ago Prositemur coram ipsa nos universos Sancti Augustini discipulos ac defensores pro indubitata tanti Doctoris atque adeo Ecclesiae doctrina praedictas propositiones ut à nobis superius expositae sunt perpetuò defensuros quamdiu de illis expressè ut supra expositae sunt intellectis probatum non erit quod à Sanctitate vestra p stulamus solenne definitivumque judicium quo nobis apertè constet eas in sensu quem asserimus Catholicum esse damnatas Having therefore explicated to his Holinesse how we understood and defended these Propositions having made this declaration to him by speech in the publick Audience which it pleas'd him to give us and by the Writing which we presented to him at that Audience and his Holiness having not given his judgement but upon these Propositions in general which are recited in the Constitution only in the general terms wherein they were fram'd in France by our Adversaries and having neither express'd nor noted in any manner whatsoever the particular and sole sense to which alone we reduc'd and defended them namely that of Grace Effectual by it self which we declar'd to him at taking our leave should be ever as dear to us as the apple of our eyes 'T is a certain proof that he hath approved that we alwayes maintain'd that sense or rather the Propositions which we reduc'd to that sense as containing the formal and expresse Doctrine of S. Augustin The second reason My Lords is because when we mention'd and explicated these Propositions to the Pope in the terms and senses which we held his Holinesse not only reprehended nothing therein when we had the honour to speak to him in the publick Audience which he gave us before the Decree and in the last since the Decree but also gave extraordinary approbations to every thing which we had spoken 'T is therefore a positive signe that his Holinesse intended not to do any prejudice to these Propositions taken as we explain'd them or to speak better to those which we presented clear from all equivocation and danger of bad sense but on the contrary judges the same most Catholick The third reason My Lords which as we conceive takes away all doubt is that his Holiness expresly declar'd to us that he intended not by this Decree to do any prejudice to Grace effectual by it self necessary to every action of piety nor to the doctrine of S. Augustin receiv'd and approv'd in that whole Church Now the Propositions as we explicated them contain purely the sense of Effectual Grace necessary to every action of piety and the indubitable doctrine of S. Augustin Therefore his Holinesse hath not done any prejudice nor laid any blemish by his Constitution upon the Propositions reduc'd to this sense The fourth reason My Lords is That the Pope hath been so perswaded as his Holinesse vouchsaf'd to testifie to us that we maintain'd before him only Grace Effectual by it self and the pure doctrine of S. Augustin as we justify'd to him in the discourse which we made in his presence that he hath not since caus'd his Consultors to examine whether what we maintain'd and explicated in our discourse and declar'd by our Writing to be formally the doctrine of

satisfi'd with it by reading it after this Journal An Extract of the said Verbal Processe Fryday 14. March 1656. The Archbishop of Narbonne being President THe ancient Agents continu'd their report and speaking of spiritual affaires related all that had pass'd in the reception of the Constitution of our H. F. Pope Innocent X. touching the five Propositions condemn'd by his Holinesse as also what order they had receiv'd from my L. L. the Prelates extraordinarily assembled to this purpose to write to the Bishop of Lodeve then at Rome concerning it Whereupon the said M. de Lodeve said That whilst he was at Rome he was commanded by the Assembly of Prelates held at Paris to present to the deceased Pope Innocent X. the letters which they writ to his Holinesse about the publication of his Bull which oblig'd him to represent to the Assembly what pass'd at Rome concerning this matter during his being there and that if the Assembly thought good he would begin with the things which preceded the sending of that letter The Assembly having approv'd this proposal the said M. de Lodeve proceeded and reported That in the first audience which he had of Pope Innocent X. of happy memory 2. Jan. 1654. his Holinesse did him the honour to tell him that he was oblig'd to the Bishops of France and had them written in his heart for having been the first in acknowledging the authority of the H. See in the affair of the Jansenists That these were his Holinesses very words and that what he was about to speak further was very near the same language which he us'd to him he having put it into writing at the end of his audience That his Holinesse further told him That the Question of the five Propositions being presented to the Bishops of France they refus'd to take cognisance of it and said to the Presenters Go to the Pope to whom it belongs to decide causes of Faith That many Bishops had written to him That Doctors of either side came to Rome That his Holinesse having ask'd Doctor Hallier whether he had any thing to say he answer'd that he came to Rome only to understand his Holinesses sentiments and to know the truth from his own mouth touching the Five Propositions and he would respectfully and submissively receive what he should decide as an Oracle of Faith That the other Doctors demanded a Hearing and liberty to answer to what the adverse party would alledge At which word party his Holinesse told them there was no party in this affair and that the inquiry was onely to finde the truth That then one of these Doctors made a discourse full of Invectives against the Jesuites which his Holinesse heard with patience and charity though it was nothing to the matter in question That after this speech another made a long Predication which he could not finish because night superven'd and he read in a Paper but he said that all which they had to offer was contain'd in eight quires of paper which he presented to his Holinesse and desir'd permission to print to the end their adversaries might answer thereunto in print and themselves aftewards reply That his Holinesse receiv'd these papers and put them with all other Acts relating to this affair into the hands of some Cardinals of whom he nam'd Pamphilio and Chisi In the mean time his Holinesse made prayers to God to be illuminated with his H. Spirit and appointed prayers to be made in the City of Rome especially by such persons as he knew to be of great piety And having afterwards Assembled a Congregation of divers Cardinals Prelates Doctors and learned Priests he heard them many several times discourse and give their opinions upon the matter That God gave him the will and strength to be present at all the sittings with great patience without weariness or trouble That himself who before being Pope had addicted himself to the Law to the judgement of Processes and to the management of publick affaires yet affirm'd in truth and sincerity that he receiv'd from God so great an opening of mind that aperuit sensum scripturarum that he understood all the subtleties and difficulties even to the most intricate Schoole-termes and he receiv'd so great pleasure in these Congregations that when night approacht he was sorry he could not attend them longer The Cardinals oftentimes told him that he took too much paines and that this over great assiduity would do his Holinesse hurt and he answer'd that it was no trouble to him but he pitied the good old Doctors who were standing all the time That in fine having throughly examin'd and recommended this affair divers times to God he one day call'd Cardinal Chisi then secretary to his Holinesse and now Alexander VII happily sitting in S. Peter's chaire and having bidden him take paper and write he dictated his Constitution to him in the same words wherein it was publish'd That the matters were so present and clear in his mind that it was no trouble to him to dictate it and that he could repeat it word for word as accordingly his Holinesse did part of it His Holinesse also assur'd him that the matter was transacted in this manner and that he had added nothing since to his Constitution but the last Clause which saith that his Holinesse intends not by this condemnation to approve the other opinions contained in the book of Jansenius That the Pope had publish'd this Constitution and caus'd all that had been done in this affair to be compil'd into one Volume in the front whereof are plac'd The Letters of the Bishops of France to serve for a testimony to Posterity of their respect towards the H. See That he had caus'd this Volume to be deposited in the Archives of S. Peter after he had made an Act of Declaration in a Consistory held for that purpose That he had sent his Bull to the King of France and to other Princes and Bishops That those of France had receiv'd it with honour as also those of other Kingdomes by their example That even the Bishops of Malines and Grant who shew'd some tergiversation at the beginning having understood its reception by the French Bishops receiv'd and subscrib'd it That this was an obligation which his Holinesse had to the Bishops of France and should preserve as long as he liv'd That he charg'd him the Relator to acquaint them therewith at his return Which injunction he the Relator now discharges by most punctually relating to this illustrious Assembly the discourse which his Holinesse held to him in this first Audience The Assembly gave the Bishop of Lodeve thanks and was so satisfied with his Relation that they desir'd him to put it into writing to the end it might be inserted in the present Verbal Processe Which was done accordingly as is above mention'd FINIS A CATALOGUE Of the Pieces contain'd in the Collection according to the same order wherein they are mention'd in the Journal THe Conditions presented to