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.

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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.
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Saint-Amour, Louis-Gorin de, 1619-1687.
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London :: Printed by T. Ratcliff, for George Thomason, at the Rose and Crown in S. Paul's Church-yard,
1664.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A93040.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.

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SCRIPTUM ADVERSARIORUM.
[VIII. Testimonium.]
Libro 1. de fide contra Manichaeos cap. 10.

QUis enim non clamat stultum esse praecepta da∣re ei cui liberum non est quod praecipitur fa∣cere; & iniquum esse, eum damnare, cui non fu∣it potestas jussa complere? & has injustitias & ini∣quitates miseri non intelligunt Deo se adscribere; sed quid verum est, nisi & Dominum dare praecep∣ta, & animas esse libetae voluntatis?

RESPONSIO.

NOn minus hoc testimonio S. Augustini quam aliis supra citatis abuntuntur adversarii; cum enim dicit, animas esse liberae voluntatis, non lo∣quitur de libertate illis restituta per gratiam Christi, sed de libertate naturali, quam a Deo auctore acce∣perunt, & quam etiam per peccatum non amise∣runt; de hac enim libertate naturali tota quaestio vertebatur inter Catholicos & Manichaeos; unde perpetam omnino colligunt adversarii, gratiam Christi omnibus dari quibus praecepta dantur, qua illis ad pie vivendum restituatur libertas, ac praecep∣ta Dei possibilia fiant. Quod ergo docet Augustinus, illud est, nempe liberum arbitrium ad bonum & ad malum esse etiam in hominibus lapsis, quod manife∣stissime demonstrat ex praeceptis quae dantur omni∣bus hominibus: ut quid enim juberet Deus si nulla esset libertas, & homines essent naturaliter deter∣minati ad malum? Sed quae sit illa libertas, & quod in omnibus non sanetur nec juvetur gratia Dei, luce clarius ostendit lib. 1. operis imperfecti contra Iuli∣anum cap. 98.

Ex quo, inquit, homo incipit uti voluntatis ar∣bitrio, & peccare & non peccate potest: sed alte∣rum horum non facit, nisi adjutus ab eo qui dixit, Sine me nihil potestis facere; alterum vero pro∣pria voluntate sive a seipso sive ab alio deceptore seductus, vel peccato sicut servus addictus. Adju∣tos autem homines novimus Dei Spiritu, ut ea vellent quae Dei sunt, ante baptismum, sicut Cor∣nelium; quosdam vero nec post baptismum, sicut Simonem Magum; judicia enim Dei sunt sicut multa abyssus, & gratia ejus non ex operibus, alio∣qui gratia jam non est gratia.

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