Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	acknowledge_v	act_n	actual_a	22	3	9.6677	5	false

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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

better inform'd about the difference there is between them and the Jansenists concerning what they call actual grace I addressed my self to the good Father desiring him to afford me some little instruction and explaine that terme whereof I told him I knew not the meaning With all my heart reply'd he I have a particular affection for the curious Take the definition of it By actual grace we mean an inspiration of God whereby he discovers his will unto us and stirs up in us a desire to accomplish it And what controversie said I doth this breed between you and the Jansenists This reply'd he that we would have God bestow actuall graces on all men in every particular temptation for we hold that if a man have not in every temptation that actual grace to restrain him from sinning what sin soever he may commit cannot be imputed to him On the contrary the Jansenists affirm that sins committed without this presence of actual grace are nevertheless imputable But they are a sort of pittiful souls I guess'd at what he would say yet to clear it a little more fully Father said I to him this terme of actual grace I know not how to digest it 's a meat I am not us'd to would you but do me the favour to tell me the same thing without using that terme I should think it a great obligation To do that said the Father I am onely to put the definition instead of the definitum that alters not the sense of the discourse with all my heart We hold then as an undeniable principle That an action cannot be imputed as sin if God before it be committed give us not a knowledge of the evil of it and an inspiration exciting us to avoid it Have I now express'd my self home I was not a little astonish'd at the discourse which granted all sins of surprise and all committed out of a pure oblivion of God are not to be imputed whereupon turning to my Jansenist I knew by his countenance what little credit he gave it But he continuing silent Father said I I wish what you say were true and that you could make it good How said he you would have it prov'd you shall be satisfied be that upon my account Upon that he went for his Books while I and my friend fell into discourse Did ever m●n talk thus said I Is this such news to you reply'd he Assure your self that neither Fathers nor Popes nor Councils nor the Sc●iptures nor any books of Devotion even in these last times ever spoke after this rate but indeed for Casuists and new Schoolmen he can easily furnish you But such reply'd I if they clash ever so little with Tradition I can as easily laugh at You are in the right said he to me at which word in comes the Father loaden with books and presenting me with the first came to his hand There said he read Father Bauny's Summary of sins 't is the fifth Edition whence you may infer the goodness of the Book 'T is pitty said my Jansenist to me whispering that this should be condemn'd at Rome and by the B●shops of France Turn said the Father to pag. 906. I did and found these words For a man to sin and stand guilty in the sight of God he must know that the thing he is about to do is naught or at least doubt fear or imagine that God takes no pleasure in the action wherein he is employ'd that he forbids it and all this notwithstanding to do it to break through the hedge and exceed his bounds A very good beginning said I to him But note by the way what Envy is reply'd he This very passage gave Monsieur Haillor occasion before he became one of us to abuse Father Bauny applying to him these words Ecce qui tollit peccata mundi Behold him that takes away the sins of the world It is said I a new kind of redemption this of Father Bauny's But would you have a more authentick proof continu'd he take this book of Father Annats This is the last of his writing against Monsieur Arnauld turn to pag. 34. where the leaf is turn'd down and read the lines I have mark'd with black lead they are golden ones There I found these words He who hath not any thought of God nor yet of his own sins nor any apprehension that is as he explain'd it any knowledge of the obligation lies upon him to exercise acts of the love of God or of contrition hath no actual grace to exercise those acts but it must be also acknowledg'd that he is not guilty of any sin if he omit them and that if he be damn'd it will not be for any thing relating to that omission And some few lines lower And the same thing may be affirm'd of sins of commission See now sayes the Father how he speaks of the sins of Omission and Commission he forgets nothing what say you to it I am extremely well satisfied reply'd I what excellent consequences may be deduced from it I am already over head and ears in them O what what mysteries am I rapt into I see a far greater number justified by this ignorance and forgetfulness of God then by Grace and the Sacraments But Father does this any more then bring me into a fools paradise Is not this something like that sufficiency which sufficeth not I am extremely afraid of the Distinguo I have been trapann'd there already do you speak sincerely How said the Father a little enflam'd this is no jesting matter here is not any equivocation I am in earnest said I to him but the excess of my desire it should be so puts me into some fear it may not Take then for your better information the writings of Monsieur le Moine who hath taught it openly in Sorbonne He indeed learnt it first from us but he hath unravell'd the business excellently well O what a noble structure hath he made of it He shews that to make an action to be a sin there is a necessity all these things be transacted in the soul Read and weigh every word I read in Latin what you find here in English 1. On the one side God infuses into the soul a certain love which inclines her towards the thing command●d and on the other the rebellious concupiscence presses her to the contrary 2. God inspires her with a knowledge of her weakness 3. God inspires her with a knowledge of the physician that must cure her 4. God inspires her with a desire to be cur'd 5. God instills into her a desire to pray to him and implore his assistance Now if all these things pass not in the soul sayes the Jesuit the action is not properly sin and consequently not imputable as Monsieur le Moine affirmes in the same place and all throughout the discourse Are you not yet satisfied with Authorities But all modern whisper'd my Jansanist 'T is very well said I applying my self to the Father