The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 1875
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: Preface, vii; title: Historical Introduction, xiii; title: Letter I. — Disputes in the Sorboqne, and the invention of proximate power — a term employed by the Jesuits to procure the censure of M. Arnauld, 69; title: Letter II. — Of sufficient grace, 81; title: Reply of "the Provincial" to the first Two Letters of his Friend, 91; title: Letter III. — Injustice, absurdity, and nullity of the censure on M. Arnauld, 94; title: Letter IV. — On actual grace and sins of ignorance, 103; title: Letter V. — Design of the Jesuits in establishing a new system of morals — Two sorts of casuists among them — A great many lax and some severe ones — Reason of this difference — Explanation of the doctrine of probabilism — A multitude of modern and unknown authors, substituted in the place of the holy fathers, 110; title: Letter VI. — Various artifices of the Jesuits to elude the authority of the gospel, of councils, and of the popes — Some consequences which result from their doctrine of probabilism — Their relaxation in favour of beneficiaries, priests, monks, and domestics — Anecdote of John d'Alba, 132; title: Letter VII. — Method of directing the intention adopted by the casuists — Permission to kill in defence of honour and property, extended even to priests and monks — Curious question raised by Caramuel as to whether Jesuits may be allowed to kill Jansenists, 149; title: Letter VIII. — Corrupt maxims of the casuists relating to Judges — Usurers — The contract Mobatra — Bankrupts — Restitution — Divers ridiculous notions of these samo casuists, 161; title: Letter IX False worship of the Virgin introduced by the Jesuits — Devotion made easy — Their maxims on ambition, envy, gluttony, equivocation, mental reservations, female dress, gaming, hearing mass, 176; title: Letter X. — Palliatives applied by the Jesuits to the sacrament of penance, in their maxims regarding confession, satisfaction, absolution, proximate occasions, of sin, contrition, and the love of God, 192; title: Letter XI. — Ridicule a fair weapon, when employed against absurd opinions — Rules to be observed in the use of this weapon — The profane buffoonery of Fathers Le Moine and Garrassa, 20S; title: Letter XII. — Refutation of the chicaneries of the Jesuits regarding alms - giving and simony, 223; title: Letter XIII. — The doctrine of Lessius on homicide the same with that of Valentia — How easy it is to pass from speculation to practice — Why the Jesuits have recourse to this distinction, and how little it serves for their vindication, 238; title: Letter XIV. — In which the maxims of the Jesuits on murder are refuted from the Fathers — Some of their calumnies answered — And their doctrine compared with the forms observed in criminal trials, 253; title: Letter XV. — Showing that the Jesuits first exclude calumny from their catalogue of crimes, and then employ it in denouncing their opponents, 268; title: Letter XVI. — Shameful calumnies of the Jesuits against pious clergymen and innocent nuns, 284; title: Letter XVII. — The author of the Letters vindicated from the charge of heresy — A heretical phantom — Popes and general councils not infallible in questions of fact, 307; title: Letter XVIII. — Showing still more plainly, on the authority of Father Annat himself, that there is really no heresy in the Church, and that in questions of fact we must be guided by our senses, and not by authority even of popes, 328