855J •  pseudo Jesuit text. (Louis de ls Salle)

Deux declarations solennelles données par les iesuites à Messeigneurs les prelats : l’une, sur le sujet des liures d’Angleterre, contre la hierarchie et le sacrement de confirmation, et l’autre, touchant la necessité que les religieux ont d’estre approuuez par les euesques, pour confesser et pour prescher, auec les contrauentions publiques qu’ils y ont faites.

[Paris?] [s.n.]1645     Price $1,000

Pamphlet page featuring the title 'Deux declarations solennelles données par les iesuites à Messeigneurs les prelats', discussing Jesuit declarations regarding the hierarchy and sacrament of confirmation.

Octavo 16.3×11 cm. Signatures A4 B2 pagination 11,1 disbound, With a handwritten date (top margin): “1633”

This is an anti-Jesuit,Pamphlet disguised as a Jesiut retreat form their exemptions. pamphlet is Catholic and anti-Jesuit, not Protestant. The title itself gives it away: It defends the sacrament of confirmation and the authority of bishops.  It insists on the canonical principle that religious (regular clergy) need episcopal approval to hear confessions or preach.

Both points were cornerstones of Gallican ecclesiology and common complaints of French bishops against Jesuit exemptions.  The two solemn declarations given by the Jesuits to My Lords the prelates: one, on the subject of the books of England, against the hierarchy and the sacrament of confirmation, and the other, concerning the necessity that religious have of being approved by the priests, to confess and to preach, with the public contraventions that they have made there. This polemic is a Catholic intra-church polemic, quite separate from later Enlightenment/Parlementary attacks.

                  KVK; 559930365 (30-01-2018),  Notice n° :  FRBNF36345053.

                                                   This is very rare No US copies

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