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

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⟩was but in its Infancy, who held it enough to love God actually but once in a life time. One act of love ^(d)once in a life, which some count enough, saith Soto, and these some, he tells us afterwards, were very many.

¹There were many in the time of the Council of Trent, when Jesuitisme ⟨p. 97⟩was but in its Infancy, who held it enough to love God actually but once in a life time. One act of love ^(d)once in a life, which some count enough, saith Soto, and these some, he tells us afterwards, were very many.