The practical divinity of the papists discovered to be destructive of Christianity and mens…

Thus Love to God, the greatest duty that we owe the Divine Majesty, and that which is the sum of all the rest, is left to mens arbitrement; and if two or three reputed wise, shall judge that God is to have no love at all, or but one act of Love in a whole life; that must be the rule, God and man must be determined by it: Man will owe no more, and the Lord must have no more. Those of their Divines have had the repute of wise, who thought it enough to love God once in a life time, as well as such who conceive it probable, that he should have an act of love once in five years, or once in seven, for thither it may be adjourned by our Authors leave.

The Jansenists charge this opinion upon the late Jesuits, and would have all the odium cast upon them: but they go about to lead us into a mistake, if they would have us believe that these, and other horrid conceits concerning an actual love to God, are confined to that Society; they are too common amongst those Doctors who are of greatest repute, and judged free from extravagances in their morality, and more tenacious of what they would have accounted the genuine doctrine of their Church.

The Jansenists charge this opinion upon the late Jesuits, and would have all the odium cast upon them: but they go about to lead us into a mistake, if they would have us believe that these, and other horrid conceits concerning an actual love to God, are confined to that Society; they are too common amongst those Doctors who are of greatest repute, and judged free from extravagancies in their morality, and more tenacious of what they would have accounted the genuine doctrine of their Church.

¹There were many in the time of the Council of Trent, when Jesuitism ⟨p. 97⟩