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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Jansenists.
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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 1, 2024.

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TERTIA PROPOSITIO.
Ad merendum & demerendum in statu naturae lapsae non requiritur in homine libertas à ne∣cessitate, sed sufficit libertas à coactione.
I.

Die 27. Novemb. 1652.

HAEc propositio in aliquo casu particulari non est digna aliqua censura: prout a Jansenio asseri∣tur, repugnat Scripturae, & Concilio Tridentino, & successive est haeretica.

II.

CEnseo hanc propositionem esse temerariam, & formaliter haereticam.

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III.

HAEc propositio secundum se, & intellecta de li∣bertate includente sufficientem deliberatio∣nem, & indifferentiam judicii, ut intelligunt ejus auctores, puto non mereri ullam censuram: prout vero habetur in Jansenio, quod scilicet omnes, e∣tiam justi qui peccant mortaliter, in natura lapsa careant libertate indifferentiae, & necessario taliter peccent, puto esse dignam eadem censura qua affe∣ci primam propositionem.

ANIMADVERSIO.

NOtatu dignum in hoc voto sententiam Tho∣misticam de indifferentia judicii circa media, quae non impedit quominus voluntas efficaciter a Deo praedererminetur, expresse ab hoc Molinae discipulo, sed moderatissimo, ab omni censura eximi. Auctores enim illi, a quibus eam asseri di∣cit, non alii sunt quam Thomistae. Quod autem addit ex Jansenio, Omnes qui peccant mortaliter, necessario taliter peccare, id vulgo negant Janseni∣ani, qui se in peccatoribus indifferentiam contra∣dictionis admittere dictitant, nec quicquam om∣nino a vulgari Thomistarum doctrina hac in par∣te differre.

IV.

PRopositio haec, si accipiatur meritum & demeri∣tum late, nulla digna est censura. Similiter si propositio intelligatur non solum de possibilitate in ordine ad Deum, sed etiam de facto, ex speciali privilegio quoad meritum, & ex aliqua causa speci∣ali quoad demeritum, nulla est digna censura. Ac∣cipiendo vero propositionem ut jacet, & secun∣dum sensum quem regulariter importat, & in sen∣su ab auctore, hoc est, Jansenio intento, est non solum male sonans, sed etiam absolute haeretica.

V.

CEnseo tertiam propositionem hanc simpliciter, esse formaliter haereticam.

VI.

HAec propositio in proprio & rigoroso sensu, maxime a Jansenio intento, est formaliter haeretica.

VII.

CEnseo propter multitudinem & auctoritatem gravissimorum virorum, qui doctrinam om∣nem, a qua pendet propositio, defendunt, proposi∣tionem probabilem & nulla dignam censura Theo∣logica.

VIII.

CEnseo istam propositionem in sensu ab auctori∣bus explicato esse formalissime haereticam, tan∣quam destruentem libertatem, & consequenter ra∣tionem meriti & demeriti in nostris actionibus.

IX.

CEnseo hanc propositionem secundum proprium sensum verborum, & secundum se absolute consideratam, esse saltem erroneam in fide.

X.

CEnseo propositionem hanc non solum esse dam∣natam a summis Pontificibus contra Michae∣lem Baium, & contra Jansenium; sed esse formali∣ter haereticam, damnatam a D. Thoma, & ab ali∣is summis Pontificibus & Conciliis, & esse forma∣liter haeresim Calvini & Lutheri, damnatam in Concilio Tridentino. Quod si coarctaretur ad ali∣quem casum particularem, adhuc declinat in par∣tem haeresis.

XI.

HAec propositio intellecta de libertate a coactio∣ne, excludente libertatem indifferentiae de∣struentem efficaciam gratiae positam a D. Augusti∣no, est Catholica, & non est qualificabilis; intelle∣cta autem de libertate a coactione excludente indif∣ferentiam compatientem secum efficaciam divinae gratiae Augustinianae, est qualificabilis, & est erro∣nea, & etiam majori censura digna.

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XII.

Die 11. Decembris 1652.

PRopositio quoad meritum est vera & Catholica; quoad demeritum respectu peccatoum quae sunt poena peccati, de quibus dicitur, De necessitatibus meis eripe me, Domine, non est qualificabilis.

XIII.

HAec propositio cum non solum a pluribus Do∣ctoribus Scholasticis, sed etiam a multis Patri∣bus & Doctoribus Ecclesiae, praesertim a D. Augu∣stino & D. Thoma reperiatur asserta, necesse est dicere eam in sensu Catholico defendi posse, ne di∣camus ipsos propositiones temeratias aut haereticas scripsisse. In re enim dubia & probabili interpreta∣tio illa praeferenda, unde jus tertii non laeditur. Sentio igitur propositionem assertam nullam mere∣ri censuram, imo esse veram & Catholicam.

ANIMADVERSIO GENERALIS in Vota Consultorum super tertia propositione.

VAlde hic nos turbant Consultores; quia sen∣sum Jansenii saepe damnant, nunquam ex∣primunt. Quod tamen ex illorum votis conjici licet, sic illum utique acceperunt, quasi omnem prorsus indifferentiam, etiam eam quae cum gra∣tia efficaci cohaeret, etiam indifferentiam judicii & electionis mediorum funditus sustulerit, & me∣ram necessitatem invexerit: quo sensu, qui cer∣te, ut aiunt, rigorosus & proprius est, illam etiam repudiant omnes tum Thomistae tum Jansenistae, qui hunc sensum Jansenio falso tribui pugnant. At quia praeter illas indifferentias judicii & electionis, quas omnes admittunt, est alia quaedam notissi∣ma, nempe Moliniana, illa scilicet quae semper in utramque partem sic expedita est, ut nihil ipsi de∣sit quominus se vel in bonum vel in malum con∣vertat; hanc utique nullo modo adstruunt Con∣sultores, utpote gratiae efficaci capitaliter aver∣sam. Imo quatuor ex ipsis dignitate longe praeci∣pui, eruditione non postremi, propositionem ip∣sam a censura liberant, quatenus excludit hoc Molinianae Scholae figmentum; nec tamen cum caeteris Consultoribus pugnant, nisi quod illam ali∣ter quam ipsi interpretantur. Hi propositionem recte damnant; quia in proprio sensu destruit omnem indifferentiam: illi mitius de ea sentiunt, quia solam Molinianam impugnare videri potuit, quod non modo non vetat fides, sed etiam jubet. Ergo qui caeteras indifferentias admittit excepta Moliniana, cum omnibus Consultoribus reipsa consentit.

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