Frequent Communion, 3d part, ch. 16. _Poitrine_—that is, the bodily breast or stomach, in opposition to _cœur_—the heart or soul. Footnote 286: Ibid., 1st part, ch. 40. Footnote 287: Theolog. Fam., lec. 15. Footnote 288: Ibid. Footnote 289: De la Suspension. Rais. 21. Footnote 290: Ibid., p. 23. Footnote 291: Hours of the Holy Sacrament, in Prose. Footnote 292: Letters of M. de St. Cyran, tom. i., let. 93. Footnote 293: Ibid. Footnote 294: Letter 32. Footnote 295: Letter 72. Footnote 296: Defence of the Chaplet of the H. Sacrament, p. 217. Footnote 297: Theol. Famil., lec. 15. Footnote 298: Ibid., p. 153. Footnote 299: _John Mestrezat_, Protestant minister of Paris, was born at Geneva in 1592 and died in May 1657. His Sermons on the Epistle to the Hebrews and other discourses, published after his death, are truly excellent. This learned and eloquent divine frequently engaged in controversy with the Romanists, and on one occasion managed the debate with such spirit that Cardinal Richelieu, taking hold of his shoulder, exclaimed: “This is the boldest minister in France.” (Bayle, Dict., art. _Mestrezat_.) Footnote 300: The statement of the Protestant faith, given in a preceding note, may suffice to show that it differs, _toto cœlo_, from that of Rome, as this is explained in the text. The leading fallacy of the Romish creed on this subject is the monstrous dogma of transubstantiation; the adoration of the host is merely a corollary. Calvinists and Lutherans though differing in their views of the ordinance, always agreed in acknowledging the _real_ presence of Christ in the eucharist, though they consider the sense in which Romanists interpret that term to be chargeable with blasphemy and absurdity. Footnote 301: Mascar., tr. 4, disp. 5, n. 284. Footnote 302: Ecclesiasticus (Apocrypha). Footnote 303: Freq. Com., 3 part, ch. 11. Footnote 304: Eccles. iv. 25 (Apocrypha). Footnote 305: _Jean du Verger de Hauranne, the Abbé de Saint Cyran_ was born at Bayonne in 1581. He was the intimate friend of Jansenius and a man of great piety and talents, but was seized as a heretic, and thrown by Cardinal Richelieu into the dungeon of Vincennes. After five years’ imprisonment he was released, but died shortly after, October, 11, 1643. By his followers, M. de Saint Cyran was reverenced as a saint and a martyr. Footnote 306: This Father Jarrige was a famous Jesuit, who became a Protestant, and published, after his separation from Rome, a book, entitled “_Le Jesuite sur l’Echaffaut_—The Jesuit on the Scaffold,” in which he treats his old friends with no mercy. Footnote 307: _Misérables que vous êtes_—one of the bitterest expressions which Pascal has applied to his opponents and one which they have deeply felt, but the full force of which can hardly be rendered into English. Footnote 308: