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Order of Contents
Articles 2
Books 3
History 1
Historical Theology 2
Against Jesuit Teachings 6+
Works of 1
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Articles
1600’s
Anon. – The Reformed Catholic, against the Deformed Jesuit, or a Discovering of the Treachery of the Jesuits against the Reformed Churches of France & other Parts ([Netherlands?] 1621) 14 pp.
The author was an inhabitant of La Rochelle, France.
Voet, Gisbert – ‘The New Jesuitic Skepticism’, pp. 118-25 in Select Theological Disputations, vol. 1, pt. 1 tr. by AI by Onku (Utrecht: Johannes a Waesberg, 1648) Latin
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Books
1600’s
Bagshaw, Christopher – A Sparing Discovery of our English Jesuits, and of Father Parson’s Proceedings under Pretense of Promoting the Catholic Faith in England, for a caveat to all true Catholics, our very loving brethren and friends, how they embrace such very uncatholic, though Jesuitical designments (London, 1601) 70 pp.
Bagshshaw (d. 1625)
Wadsworth (1604-1656?) was born of an English Jesuit father. In 1625 he professed himself a convert from Romanism to Protestantism, becoming involved with the Church of England.
Anti-Papist – Fair Warning to Take Heed of Popery, or a Short & True History of the Jesuits’ Fiery Practices & Powder-plots to destroy kings, ruin kingdoms & lay cities waste ([London, 1674-79?]) 136 pp.
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History
Article
1600’s
Somerset, D.W.B. – ‘Scottish covenanting, Jesuit & Quaker printing in Holland, 1664-1684’ in Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal, 10 (2020), pp. 82-113
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Historical Theology
Agreements & Disagreements with the Reformed
Quotes
Aza Goudriaan, “Defending Grace: References to Dominicans, Jesuits & Jansenists in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Reformed Theology” in eds. Ballor, Gaetano & Sytsma, Beyond Dordt & De Auxiliis: the Dynamics of Protestant & Catholic Soteriology in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries (Brill, 2019) See the original for more relevant details and for the footnotes.
p. 280
“The charge was made in a general way by the Leiden professor Franciscus Gomarus (1563– 1641) in his 1608 speech to the States of Holland and West-Friesland. Gomarus mentioned three positions that Arminius agreed about with the Jesuits—free will, justification, and perfectionism—and four themes on which Arminius went even further than the Jesuits who, according to Gomarus, were in agreement with the Reformed on God’s sovereign election, faith as an effect of election, original sin as a sin in the proper sense, and perseverance.”
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p. 289
“Scholastic philosophers, not least Jesuits such as Suárez and Pedro da Fonseca (1528– 99), were helpful [according to Gisbert Voet] when it came to defending
“the Trinity, the divine attributes, Christ the God-Man, the creation of the world, the resurrection, general propositions on the end of the human being, affections, faculties, etc.””
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p. 291
“Voetius’s appreciation— with some caveats— of Suárez as a metaphysician was by no means the only case in which he applauded Jesuit scholarship. He was indebted to Jesuits in the area of practical piety. In casuistry the Jesuit Juan Azor (1536–1603) was, for him, an important author.
Likewise, in biblical scholarship Voetius recommended a significant number of exegetical commentaries written by Jesuits, such as Cornelius a Lapide (1567–1637), Benito Pereira, Jean de Lorin (1559–1634), Juan de Pineda (1558–1637), Gaspar Sánchez (1553–1628), Francisco de Toledo (1532–1596), Juan Bautista Villalpando (1552–1608), and others.”
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Irresistible Grace
Quote
Aza Goudriaan, “Defending Grace: References to Dominicans, Jesuits & Jansenists in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Reformed Theology” in eds. Ballor, Gaetano & Sytsma, Beyond Dordt & De Auxiliis: the Dynamics of Protestant & Catholic Soteriology in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries (Brill, 2019), p. 284
“At an earlier moment during the [Hague] Conference [1611], the attending Counter-Remonstrants—Ruard Acronius (d. 1611), Joannes Bogardus (d. 1614), Petrus Plancius (1552–1622), Joannes Becius (1558– 1626), Libertus Fraxinus (c.1547–c.1621), and Festus Hommius (1576– 1642)—had noted that the word “irresistible” was ambiguous and that even Jesuits were able to accommodate it within their theory of grace and human free choice.”
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Ethics
Book
1600’s
The Jesuits’ Morals, collected by a doctor of the college of Sorbonne in Paris, who has faithfully extracted them out of the Jesuits’ own books which are printed by the permission and approbation of the superiors of their Society… (London: Starkey, 1670) 392 pp. ToC
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Against Jesuit Teachings
Order of
Articles 1
Quote 1
Latin 1
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Articles
1600’s
Davenant, John – Question 17, ‘The Papal Jesuits Cannot be Good Subjects’ in The Determinations, or Resolutions of Certain Theological Questions, Publicly Discussed in the University of Cambridge trans. Josiah Allport (1634; 1846), pp. 307-312 bound at the end of John Davenant, A Treatise on Justification, or the Disputatio de Justitia... trans. Josiah Allport (1631; London, 1846), vol. 2
Turretin, Francis – Institutes of Elenctic Theology, tr. George M. Giger, ed. James Dennison Jr. (1679–1685; P&R, 1992)
vol. 1
3rd Topic
13. ‘Is there a middle knowledge in God between the natural and the free? We deny against the Jesuits, Socinians & Remonstrants.’ 212-18
4th Topic
3, ‘Are there conditional decrees? We deny against the Socinians, Remonstrants and Jesuits.’ 316
6th Topic
4. ‘Is providence occupied only in the conservation and sustentation of things; or also in their government (through which God Himself acts and efficaciously concurs with them by a concourse not general and indifferent, but particular, specific and immediate)? We deny the former and affirm the latter, against the Jesuits, Socinians and Remonstrants.’ 501
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vol. 2
11th Topic
12. ‘Whether it is lawful to use ambiguous equivocations and mental reservations in oaths. We deny against the papists and especially the Jesuits.’ 70
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Quote
1500’s
Theodore Beza & Anthony Faius
Propositions & Principles of Divinity Propounded & Disputed in the University of Geneva by Certain Students of Divinity there, under Mr. Theodore Beza & Mr. Anthony Faius… (Edinburgh: Waldegrave, 1591), 25. ‘Of the Justification of Sinful Man in the Sight of God’, p. 60
“These Doctrines therefore are to be detested:
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8 That Christ does purchase the dignity of merit by our good works, which is a new-coined falsehood of the Jesuits.”
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Latin Article
1600’s
Voet, Gisbert – 8. ‘The New Jesuit Skepticism about the Principles of the Christian Faith’ in Select Theological Disputations (Utrecht: Waesberg, 1648), vol. 1, pp. 106-114
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Works of Jesuits
See also, ‘Francis Suarez in English & on his Thought’.
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1500’s
Vasquez, Gabriel – Commentaries & Disputations on the First Part of St. Thomas, vol. 1 (q. 1-26), 2 (27-64 & 106-14) tr. AI by Stiven Peter (Gratianus, 1598)
Vasquez (1549 or 1551 – 1604) was a Spanish, Jesuit theologian. His foremost academic rival was his fellow Jesuit Francisco Suárez, whose philosophical views he often and openly criticized (such as in this work).
Wikipedia has a section on Vasquez’s distinctive ideas.
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