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.

ANSWER.

Our Saviour call's the perfidious and obstinate, sons of perdition, all that time the Jews were mur∣derers and persecutors of the truth. VVhich place I alluded to, and called them sons of perdition be∣cause our Saviour so term'd them; Ye are of your father the Devil, because ye do his works. I say the same, and no more. But they who are not desti∣nated simply and properly to eternal life, nor writ∣ten in the book of life, although they may appear to be the Children of God, neverthelesse they are the Children of the Devil, by imitation and not by substance, as S. Augustin speaks. This I said in reference to their last end of damnation and final impenitence which God foreknows, and alwayes foreknew most certainely. I said that God never looks upon them with the eye of his mercy though a most just and incomprehensible judgement; as I said it was in Judas, whom Pope S. Leo in his Sermon of the Lords passion calls an inconvertible man, (that is, one who could not be converted.) This is the scope at which my words referre, & not to certain intermediate things, not to the justificati∣on of the present life in which they may be for some time, and during which God sundry times beholds Judas and other reprobates with his eye of mercy, namely when they do well and are up∣right.