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The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal : $b A new translation, with historical introduction and notes, by the Rev. Thomas M'CriePascal, Blaise

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The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal : $b A new translation, with historical introduction and notes, by the Rev. Thomas M'Crie

Name: The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal : $b A new translation, with historical introduction and notes, by the Rev. Thomas M'Crie
Author: Pascal, Blaise

Pascal, Blaise

Jansenists -- France -- Early works to 1800; Jesuits -- Early works to 1800; Port-Royal des Champs (Abbey) -- Early works to 1800

“With a certain class,” replied the monk, “I allow that may be the case;
but do you not know that we accommodate ourselves to all sorts of
persons? You seem to have lost all recollection of what I have
repeatedly told you on this point. The first time you are at leisure,
therefore, I propose that we make this the theme of our conversation,
deferring till then the lenitives we have introduced into the
confessional. I promise to make you understand it so well that you will
never forget it.”

With these words we parted, so that our next conversation, I presume,
will, turn on the policy of the Society.—I am, &c.

                  *       *       *       *       *

_P. S._—Since writing the above, I have seen “Paradise Opened by a
Hundred Devotions easily Practised,” by Father Barry; and also the “Mark
of Predestination,” by Father Binet; both of them pieces well worth the
seeing.

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Footnote 184:

  “Towards the conclusion of the tenth century, new accessions were made
  to the worship of the Virgin. In this age, (the tenth century) there
  are to be found manifest indications of the institution of the
  _rosary_ and _crown_ (or chaplet) of the Virgin, by which her
  worshippers were to reckon the number of prayers they were to offer to
  this new divinity. The rosary consists of fifteen repetitions of the
  Lords Prayer, and a hundred and fifty salutations of the blessed
  Virgin; while the crown consists in six or seven repetitions of the
  Lord’s Prayer, and seven times ten salutations, or _Ave Marias_.”
  (Mosheim. cent. x.)

Footnote 185:

  These are the devotions presented at pp. 33, 59, 145, 156, 172, 258,
  420 of the first edition.

Footnote 186:

  See the devotions, at pp. 14, 326, 447.

Footnote 187:

  The Jesuits raised a great outcry against Pascal for having, in this
  letter, as they alleged, turned the worship of the Virgin into
  ridicule. Nicole seriously undertakes his defence, and draws several
  distinctions between true and false devotion to the Virgin. The
  Mariolatry or Mary-worship, of Pascal and the Port-Royalists, was
  certainly a different sort of thing from that practised in the Church
  of Rome; but it is sad to see the straits to which these sincere
  devotees were reduced, in their attempts to reconcile this practice
  with the honor due to God and his Son.

Footnote 188:

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The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal : $b A new translation, with historical introduction and notes, by the Rev. Thomas M'CriePascal, Blaise

Religion

The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal : $b A new translation, with historical introduction and notes, by the Rev. Thomas M'Crie

Pascal, Blaise

Jansenists -- France -- Early works to 1800; Jesuits -- Early works to 1800; Port-Royal des Champs (Abbey) -- Early works to 1800

“With a certain class,” replied the monk, “I allow that may be the case;
but do you not know that we accommodate ourselves to all sorts of
persons? You seem to have lost all recollection of what I have
repeatedly told you on this point. The first time you are at leisure,
therefore, I propose that we make this the theme of our conversation,
deferring till then the lenitives we have introduced into the
confessional. I promise to make you understand it so well that you will
never forget it.”

With these words we parted, so that our next conversation, I presume,
will, turn on the policy of the Society.—I am, &c.

                  *       *       *       *       *

_P. S._—Since writing the above, I have seen “Paradise Opened by a
Hundred Devotions easily Practised,” by Father Barry; and also the “Mark
of Predestination,” by Father Binet; both of them pieces well worth the
seeing.

-----

Footnote 184:

  “Towards the conclusion of the tenth century, new accessions were made
  to the worship of the Virgin. In this age, (the tenth century) there
  are to be found manifest indications of the institution of the
  _rosary_ and _crown_ (or chaplet) of the Virgin, by which her
  worshippers were to reckon the number of prayers they were to offer to
  this new divinity. The rosary consists of fifteen repetitions of the
  Lords Prayer, and a hundred and fifty salutations of the blessed
  Virgin; while the crown consists in six or seven repetitions of the
  Lord’s Prayer, and seven times ten salutations, or _Ave Marias_.”
  (Mosheim. cent. x.)

Footnote 185:

  These are the devotions presented at pp. 33, 59, 145, 156, 172, 258,
  420 of the first edition.

Footnote 186:

  See the devotions, at pp. 14, 326, 447.

Footnote 187:

  The Jesuits raised a great outcry against Pascal for having, in this
  letter, as they alleged, turned the worship of the Virgin into
  ridicule. Nicole seriously undertakes his defence, and draws several
  distinctions between true and false devotion to the Virgin. The
  Mariolatry or Mary-worship, of Pascal and the Port-Royalists, was
  certainly a different sort of thing from that practised in the Church
  of Rome; but it is sad to see the straits to which these sincere
  devotees were reduced, in their attempts to reconcile this practice
  with the honor due to God and his Son.

Footnote 188:

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal : $b A new translation, with historical introduction and notes, by the Rev. Thomas M'Crie

The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal : $b A new translation, with historical introduction and notes, by the Rev. Thomas M'Crie

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