[21]. Witsii Œconom. Fœd., lib. iii.; Turret. Theol., Elenct. xv. quest. 4; De Moor Comment, iv. 496; Mestrezat, Serm. sur Rom., viii. 274.
[22]. I refer here particularly to Arnauld’s treatise, entitled “Renversement de la Morale de Jesus Christ par les Calvinistes,” which was answered by Jurieu in his “Justification de la Morale des Reformez.” 1685, by M. Merlat, and others. Jurieu has shown at great length, and with a severity for which he had too much provocation, that Arnauld and his friends, in their violent tirades against the Reformed, neither acted in good faith, nor in consistency with the sentiments of their much admired leaders, Augustine and Jansen.
[23]. Fontaine, Mémoires, i. 200; Mosheim, Eccl. Hist., cent. xvii. 2.
[24]. Lancelot, p. 123.
[25]. Mémoires pour servir a l’Histoire de Port-Royal, vol. i. pp. 35, 57, 142.
[26]. Ib., p. 456. The title of this work was, “The Secret Chaplet of the Holy Sacrament.”
[27]. Sacy, or Saci, was the inverted name of Isaac Le Maitre, celebrated for his translation of the Bible.
[28]. Mosheim, Eccl. Hist., cent. xvii. §2.
[29]. We may refer particularly to Petitot in his Collection des Mémoires, tom. xxxiii., Paris, 1824; and to a History of the Company of Jesus by J. Cretineau-Joly, Paris, 1845. With high pretensions to impartiality, these works abound with the most glaring specimens of special pleading.
[30]. Voltaire, Siècle de Louis XIV, t. ii.