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316 THE HISTORY OF HERESIES,
sublimatio, ct cxaltatio in consortium Divina) naturao debita fuit
intcgritati primse conditionis, ct proindo naturalis dicenda cst, et
non supcrnaturalis" was condemned (proposition
He says the same in the :
fifty-fifth proposition
twenty-two).
" Deus non
potuisset ab initio talem creare homincm, qualis nunc nascitur ;"
that is, exclusive of sin we understand. In the seventy-ninth
proposition, again ho says :
"
Falsa est Doctorum scntentia,
primum hominem et potuisse a Deo creari, et institui sine justitia
naturali." Jansenius, though a strong partisan of the doctrine
of Baius, confesses that those Decrees of the Pope made him
very uneasy :
"
Hserco, fateor" (1).
7. The disciples of Baius and Jansenius, however, say they
"
In emincnti,"
have a doubt whether the Bull of Urban VIII.,
should be obeyed ; but Tournelly (2) answers them, and shows
that the Bull being a dogmatic law of the Apostolic See, whose
authority Jansenius himself says, all Catholics, as children of
obedience, should venerate, and being accepted in the places
where the controversy was agitated, and by the most celebrated
Churches in the world, and tacitly admitted by all others, should
bo held as an infallible judgment of the Church, which all should
hold by ;
and even Quesnel himself admits that.
8. Our adversaries also speak of the way the Bull of St. Pius
should be understood, and say, first, that we cannot believe that
the Apostolic See ever intended to condemn in Baius the doctrine
of St. Augustin, who, as they suppose, taught that the state of
pure nature was an impossibility. This supposition of theirs,
however, is totally unfounded, for the majority of Theologians
assert, that the Holy Doctor in many places teaches the contrary,
especially in his writings against the Manicheans (3), and dis
tinguishes four modes in which God might create the souls of
men blameless, and, among them, the second mode would be,
if, previously to any sin being committed, these created souls
were infused into their bodies subject to ignorance, concupiscence,
and all the miseries of this life ; by this mode, the possibility of
pure nature is certainly established. Consult Tournelly (4) on this
(1) Jansen. /. 3, d. Statu. nat. pur. (3) St. August. /. 3, de lib. arb. c. 20.
c. ult. (4) Tourn. t. 5, p. 2, c. 7, p. 67.
(2) Comp. Thool. t.
art. 3, *. 2.
5, p. 1, Disp. 5,