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.

AN ADDITION Made to this Journal on S. Peter's Day, 1661.

Containing, 1. An Answer of Cardinal Barberin to two Letters of mine. 2. Sundry places of F. Annat's Book intitled Cavilli, which justifie many points of this Journal 3. A Decree of the Inquisition of Rome, touching the Popes Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in the Temporalties of Kings. 4. An Advertise∣ment touching several Acts of the Congregation de Auxiliis, which we caus'd to be transcrib'd and compar'd at Rome.

WHen I made this Journal, I had no purpose to add any thing beyond the year 1651. but when I re∣view'd it for the Presse, I found among my Papers Cardinal Barberin's Letter of the twentieth of April, 1654. which contains an Answer to two of mine; in which, after a most sincere Declaration, that I condemn'd the Five Propositions condemn'd by Pope Innocent X. and that all our Friends did the same, I declar'd to him no lesse clearly that I was perswaded Jansenius was not the Author or Assertor of them, and that the reading of a little Tract made against F. Au∣nat's Cavilli Jansenianorum had fully convinc'd me thereof. I sent him two of those Books, and desir'd him to communicate them to Cardinal Spada and Cardinal Ghiggi (now Pope Alexander VII.)

Cardinal Barberin's Answer was this.

Sir,

LAst week your letter of the 6. of March was de∣liver'd to me; and this week I have receiv'd ano∣ther of the 20th. Both of them are so full of goodness and civility towards me, and so lively expresse your remembrance and affection to me, that I owe you a thousand thanks for them. As for the particulari∣ties in the former, I cannot but much commend your pious sentiments touching our H. F. and the resolutions which you take; highly esteeming the con∣fidence which you professe to have in truths delibera∣ted with mature consideration. And I am glad to understand by the other letter the issue of the last Assembly, remaining in expectation to know the passages of the next. In the mean time I shall willingly read one of the two copies which you pleas∣ed to send me, and shew them to the persons you de∣sire. Moreover, I hope that as you are liberal to me of your favours, you will be so likewise of your commands, which I entreat you to be, assuring you that they will be most acceptable to me, since I par∣ticularly desire to let you know how much I am,

Sir,

Yours most affectionate, Cardinal Barberin.

Rome, April 20. 1654.

The mention of F. Annat's book intitled Ca∣villi Jansenianorum puts me in mind of the wit∣nesse which he renders to the truth of two or three considerable passages in my Journal.

For he acknowledges, (1) That the Constitu∣tion was already drawn, when we had our grand audience of the Pope, jam concepta definitione, p. 37. (2.) That after that Audience no Congre∣gation was held to examin either what we had spoken, or the Writings which we had presented; nulla deinceps habita est Congregatio, p. 37. (3.) That we only huddled over the matter, not speaking directly to the Propositions, but altoge∣ther concerning Effectual Grace. Nam cum dictu∣ri essent de quinque Propositionibus, coeperunt dicere de Jesuitis. Satyram illam excepit effusa in commenda∣tionem S. Augustini & gratiae per seipsam efficacis oratio, de quibus nulla erat controversia, & post longa quatuor circiter horarum fastidia compertum est nondum coepisse dicere de tribus capellis, p. 35.

Wherefore these important mattes of fact can no longer be question'd even by the most injust adversaries, after so publick an attestation by him who had the best meanes to be informed of them, and the most interest not to acknow∣ledge them.

I had here ended this Addition, but that as I was closing up my papers, I cast my eyes upon a Decree of the Inquisition of Rome touching the Pope's Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in the temporal

territory of Kings and other Soveraignes. And finding that it was made about the same time of the preceding letter, and seem'd worthy of the publick curiosity, and view, I thought fit to insert the following translation of it.

A DECREE Of the sacred Congregation of the Su∣preme and universal Inquisition, spe∣cially deputed by the H. See against Heresie in the whole Christian Com∣monwealth.

Thursday 15. January 1654.

IN this City and perhaps in other places a Manuscript in Spanish hath been publisht be∣ginning with these words, His Excellence hath receiv'd a letter by the hand of the Nuncio; and ends with this; which is most agreable to the ser∣vice of God, the good of soules, and upright ju∣stice. The Author of which according to publick fame is BENOIST DE TREGLIES collateral of the Counsel, or Regent of the Chan∣cery of Naples. And amongst other temerarious and scandalous Propositions it contains the follow∣ing. The Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction belonging to his Holinesse, as Pope, out of his own temporal territo∣ry, concernes Causes and Persons, and is restrain'd to Determinate Causes and Persons in whom alone it may be exercis'd. Wherefore the Territory belongs onely to the King; and as he who exercises juris∣diction in a strangers territory is to demand the good leave of the Lord of the Jurisdiction of that Territo∣ry; So when the Pope, having no Jurisdiction in a Territory, intends to exercise any in that of the King o∣ver causes and Persons in what concerns him, he ought to let his Writs be examin'd by the Temporal Prince, that so it may be known whether the Causes and per∣sons contained therein be of his Jurisdiction.

Which Proposition having been examin'd and weigh'd by the Qualificators of the supreme and universal Inquisition according to the expresse command of our H. F. Pope Innocent X. the said Qualificators with unanimous consent adjudge the same Heretical and Schismatical.

Wherefore least the Faithfull should be infected and corrupted with pernicious opinions and here∣sies by the reading of the abovesaid Manuscript; The Congregation of the supreme and Universal Inquisition absolutely forbids and condemnes the said Manuscript, whether it be disperst in the Spa∣nish or any other language whatsoever, under the penalties and Censures contain'd in the Table of prohibited books.

And let the Author know that he shall be pun∣isht with Censures and other Ecclesiastick paines, unlesse he purge himself speedily.

John Ant. Thomasi Notary of the H. and Uni∣versal Inquisition of Rome.

One thing I forgot to mention in my Journal, which is, that during our residence at Rome, one of my Collegues got sundry original pieces of the Congregation de Auxiliis (which are kept in the Library of the Augustines) carefully transcrib'd and compar'd. He also recover'd the Original writings of F. Lemos touching the disputes of that Congregation, in which volume the same wri∣tings are sign'd by the hands of Clement VIII. and Paul V.