The secret policy of the Iansenists, and the present state of the Sorbon. Discovered by a doctour of that faculty, who having learnt Iansenisme when he studied divinity, vnder a master that taught it there publickly, has been since disabused, & followes the Catholick party. / Translated out of the French copie.

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The secret policy of the Iansenists, and the present state of the Sorbon. Discovered by a doctour of that faculty, who having learnt Iansenisme when he studied divinity, vnder a master that taught it there publickly, has been since disabused, & followes the Catholick party. / Translated out of the French copie.

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Deschamps, Etienne Agard.

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Printed at Troyes, :: by Christian Roman, at the Sign of True Faith near the great Church.,

M. DC. LXVII. [i.e. 1667]

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Contents

• title page
• THE PRINTER TO THE READER.
• THE SECRET POLICY OF THE ANSENISTS, TO THE CHEVALIER DES TROISPONTS.
  • The end which the Iansenists proposed to themselves.
  • THE MEANES To arrive at this end.
    • THE FIRST MEANES. Not to meddle with Calvins odious Propositions.
    • The second Meanes. To remain in the Communion of the Church.
    • The third Meanes. An inviolable secrecy & dissimulation.
    • The fourth Meanes. To be neat & in good esteem.
    • The fift Meanes. To gain seculars, & engage them to their Partie.
    • The sixt Meanes To treat differently with persons of different natures & dispositions.
    • The seventh Meanes. To set vp Communities of men & women, & to keep private Pensioners.
    • The eighth Meanes. To have a common purse & to gather great almes for their common charges.
    • The ninth Meanes. To make Apologies to defend themselves, & abuse their adversaries.
    • The tenth Meanes. To ruin the reputation & authority of Religious.
    • The eleventh Meanes. To elude the condemnation of their Heresies, by the three senses, & by the Question of Right & Fact, & by foisting in their doctrine, in the Translations, of some workes of the Holy Fathers.
  • THE PRESENT STATE OF THE SORBON. OF PARIS.
    • THE FIRST PROOF. VVhich serves for Introduction, to thos that follow.
    • The second Proof.
    • The third Proof.
    • The fourth Proof.
    • The fift Proof.
    • The sixt Proof.
    • The seventh Proof.
    • THE CONCLVSION.
  • The 5. Iansenian Propositions condemned for Heretical by the sea Apostolick.
    • The Censure of the sayd Propositions.
    • Another Extract out of the Constitution of his Holines Pope Alexander VII.
    • THE FORMVLA To be subscribed by all Ecclesiasticks in France in submission to ALEXANDER the VII. his Bull which condemns Ian∣senius his errours: prescribed by the ge∣nerall Assembly of the Clergy & sent to the other Prelats of the Kingdome the 17. of March, 1657.