The secret policy of the Iansenists, and the present state of the Sorbon. Discovered by a doctour of that faculty, who having learnt Iansenisme when he studied divinity, vnder a master that taught it there publickly, has been since disabused, & followes the Catholick party. / Translated out of the French copie.

The eighth Meanes. To have a common purse & to gather great almes for their common charges.

But considering, that vast summs of mo∣ny, were requisite for so many pensions, & for printing Books, & other necessary char∣ges they resolved, to make the richest of their partie, pay contribution (as the Calvinists do so luckily to this day) & to draw what almes they could, from all that suffered themselves to be guided by them. To this purpose, they collected out of Scripture & holy Fathers, all the best arguments, to persuade that rich men, have an indispensable obligation, to give

great almes. To this they added the examples of Saints, that gave all they had to the poor, & the advantages which Christians, & chiefly Penitents & new Converts, gather by it, to satisfy Gods Justice, & purchase an extraor∣dinary degree of sanctity, & with much elo∣quence; they held forth all the arguments they could invent. And because they meant, in pursuance of their project, to have the fin∣gering of this mony, they gave out, that the best almes, and most pleasing to God, were thos that were the most secret. This made them trusted, with so considerable summs of mony, that they have hetherto lived at a vast rate.