[226] Crét. vol. iv. p. 58.
[227] Le monde s’était plaint depuis l’origine du Christianisme de l’austérité de certains precepts; les Jésuites venaient au secour de ces doléances, &c.—Crét. vol. iv. p. 50.
[228] Busembaum, apud Ranke, vol. ii. p. 394.
[229] Antony Escobar. L. Theol. moralis vigenti-quatuor Societatis Jesu Doctoribus reseratus. Ex. de pænitentiâ, ch. vii. N. 155. (Lugduni, 1656. Ed. Mus. Brit.)
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[231] George de Rhodes. Disput. Theologiæ Scholasticæ, tom. i. Dis. xi. quæs. xi. sec. 1 and 2, and Dis. i. q. iii. sec. 2, § 3. (Lugduni, 1671.)
[232] In quoting Pascal, we make use of the translation of Dr M’Crie, to render the author’s meaning better than we could do. P. 107.
[233] John of Salas. Disputationum R. P. Joannis de Salas, e Soc. Jesu, in primam secundæ D. Thomæ, tom. i. tr. 8, sec. 7, 9, N. 74, 83. (Barcinone, 1607. Ed. Bibl. Arch. Cant. Lamb.)
[234] Gregory of Valentia. Commentariorum Theologicorum, tom. iii. dis. v. quæs. 7, punct. iv. (Lutetiæ Parisiorum, 1609. Ed. Coll. Sion).
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