I refer here particularly to Arnauld’s treatise, entitled “Renversement de la Morale de Jesus Christ par les Calvinistes,” which was answered by Jurieu in his “Justification de la Morale des Reformez.” 1685, by M. Merlat, and others. Jurieu has shown at great length, and with a severity for which he had too much provocation, that Arnauld and his friends, in their violent tirades against the Reformed, neither acted in good faith, nor in consistency with the sentiments of their much admired leaders, Augustine and Jansen. Footnote 23: Fontaine, Mémoires, i. 200; Mosheim, Eccl. Hist., cent. xvii. 2. Footnote 24: Lancelot, p. 123. Footnote 25: Mémoires pour servir a l’Histoire de Port-Royal, vol. i. pp. 35, 57, 142. Footnote 26: Ib., p. 456. The title of this work was, “The Secret Chaplet of the Holy Sacrament.” Footnote 27: Sacy, or Saci, was the inverted name of Isaac Le Maitre, celebrated for his translation of the Bible. Footnote 28: Mosheim, Eccl. Hist., cent. xvii. §2. Footnote 29: We may refer particularly to Petitot in his Collection des Mémoires, tom. xxxiii., Paris, 1824; and to a History of the Company of Jesus by J. Cretineau-Joly, Paris, 1845. With high pretensions to impartiality, these works abound with the most glaring specimens of special pleading. Footnote 30: Voltaire, Siècle de Louis XIV, t. ii. Footnote 31: Mémoires de P. Royal, i. 13. Bayle insists that his father had twenty-two children. Dict., art. _Arnauld_. Footnote 32: Weisman, Hist. Eccl., ii. 204. Footnote 33: The title under which the Letters appeared when first collected into a volume was, “_Lettres écrites par Louis de Montalte, a un Provincial de ses amis, et aux RR. PP. Jesuites, sur la morale et la politique de ces Peres_.” Father Bouhours, a Jesuit, ridicules the title of the Letters, and says he is surprised they were not rather entitled “Letters from a Country Bumpkin to his Friends,” and instead of “The Provincials” called “The Bumpkins”—“_Campagnardes_.” (Remarques sur la langue Fran., p. ii. 306. Dict. Univ., art. _Provincial_.) Footnote 34: Daniel, Entretiens, p. 19. Footnote 35: Petitot, Notices, p. 121. Footnote 36: Benoit, Hist. de l’Edit. de Nantes, iii. 198. Footnote 37: Daniel, Entretiens, p. 11. Footnote 38: Nicole, Notes sur la xi. Lettre iii. 332. Footnote 39: Recueil de Port-Royal, 278, 279; Petitot, pp. 122, 123. Footnote 40: Histoire des Provinciales, p. 12. Footnote 41: Petitot, p. 124. The eighteenth letter embraces the delicate topic of papal authority, as well as the distinction between _faith_ and _fact_, in stating which we can easily conceive how severely the ingenuous mind of Pascal must have labored to find some plausible ground for vindicating his consistency as a Roman Catholic. To the Protestant reader, it must appear the most unsatisfactory of all the Letters. Footnote 42: Prov. Let., p. 340.