[346] P. 251, l. 12. Bar-jesus blinded.—Acts xiii, 6-11.
[347] P. 251, l. 14. The Jewish exorcists.—Ibid., xix, 13-16.
[348] P. 251, l. 18. Si angelus.—Galatians i, 8.
[349] P. 252, l. 10. An angel from heaven.—See previous note.
[350] P. 252, l. 14. Father Lingende.—Claude
de Lingendes, an
eloquent Jesuit
preacher, who died in 1660.
[351] P. 252, l. 33. Ubi est Deus tuus?—Ps. xiii, 3.
[352] P. 252, l. 34. Exortum est, etc.—Ps. cxii, 4.
[353] P. 253, l. 6. Saint Xavier.—Saint
Francois Xavier, the friend
of Ignatius Loyola,
became a Jesuit.
[354] P. 253, l. 9. Vae qui, etc.—Is. x, I.
[355] P. 253, l. 24. The five propositions.—See Preface.
[356] P. 253, l. 36. To seduce, etc.—Mark xiii, 22.
[357] P. 254, l. 6. Si non fecissem.—John xv, 24.
[358] P. 255, l. 11. Believe in the Church.—Matthew xviii, 17-20.
[359] P. 257, l. 14. They.—The Jansenists,
who believed in the system
of evangelical
doctrine deduced from Augustine by Cornelius Jansen
(1585-1638), the
Bishop of Ypres. They held that interior grace
is
irresistible,
and that Christ died for all, in reaction against
the ordinary Catholic
dogma of the freedom of the will, and merely
sufficient grace.
[360] P. 258, l. 4. A time to laugh, etc.—Eccles. iii, 4.
[361] P. 258, l. 4. Responde. Ne respondeas.—Prov. xxvi, 4, 5.
[362] P. 260, l. 3. Saint Athanasius.—Patriarch
of Alexandria,
accused of rape,
of murder, and of sacrilege. He was condemned
by
the Councils of
Tyre, Aries, and Milan. Pope Liberius is said
to
have finally ratified
the condemnation in A.D. 357. Athanasius
here stands for
Jansenius, Saint Thersea for Mother Angelique, and
Liberius for Clement
IX.
[363] P. 261, l. 17. Vos autem non sic.—Luke xxii, 26.
[364] P. 261, l. 23. Duo aut tres in unum.—John
x, 30; First Epistle
of St. John, V,
8.
[365] P. 262, l. 18. The Fronde.—The
party which rose against Mazarin
and the Court
during the minority of Louis XIV. They led to
civil
war.
[366] P. 262, l. 25. Pasce oves meas.—John xxi, 17.
[367] P. 263, l. 14. Jeroboam.—I Kings xii, 31.
[368] P. 265, l. 21. The servant, etc.—John xv, 15.
[369] P. 266, l. 4. He that is not, etc.—Matthew xii, 30.
[370] P. 266, l. 5. He that is not, etc.—Mark ix, 40.
[371] P. 266, l. 11. Humilibus dot gratiam.—James iv, 6.
[372] P. 266, l. 12. Sui eum non, etc.—John i, 11, 12.