CHAP. II.
Of what pass'd in the Assembly of the Fa∣culty on the first of March, 1647. con∣cerning a scandalus Libel against Pe∣trus Aurelius.
AMongst the Libels publisht this year by the Je∣suites or their Partisans, there was one in Latin, intituled, The Divinity of Petrus Aurelius, or, His principal Errors against Faith and Good Manners, a Libel full of abundance of falsifications and calum∣nies, charging that famous Writer with errors di∣rectly contrary to his sentiments, and fixing the name of Error upon Catholick Truths. In the Assem∣bly of the Faculty on March 1. M. Pereyret, according to appointment formerly laid upon him to read the said Libel, and make his report of the same that day, declar'd, that he had found that It contain'd a hun∣dred Propositions, most of which were drawn intire and word for word out of the Works of Petrus Aure∣lius, and the rest made up of his words taken out of several places, and so put together as to make perfect sense: that the Author of the said Libel had to eve∣ry one of those hundred Propositions added as many Conclusions, by which he attributed sundry Errors to Petrus Aurelius. That moreover it would be not only unprofitable but prejudicial to set upon the ex∣amination of the said Libel, because it would cost the Faculty not only some Months but even many years, multos annos, to discusse the sincerity of the extracted Propositions, and the truth of the conse∣quence drawn from them, according to their accu∣stomed diligence and fidelity, and to the rules of Theology; Wherefore he concluded that he judg'd it suitable to the interest and dignity of the Faculty to bury the whole Matter in silence, especially seeing the Epistle prefixt to the Libel was already torn by