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dalous, and, understood in the sense that Christ died for the pre
destined alone, impious, blasphemous, contumelious, derogatory
to the Divine goodness, and heretical. Therefore, if we are to
understand the proposition in the sense that Jesus Christ died
for the predestined alone, it is impious and heretical ;
and yet in
this sense it is published in several places by Jansenius. In one
passage he says :
" Omnibus illis pro quibus Christus Sanguinem
fudit, etiam sufficiens auxilium donari, quo non solum possint, sed
etiam velint, et faciant id quod ab iis volendum, et faciendum esse
decrevit" (26). Therefore, according to Jansenius, Jesus Christ
offered up his blood solely for those whom he selected both to
will and to perform good works, understanding by the sufficiens
auxilium the assistance, Quo (as explained already), that is, effi
cacious Grace, which, according to him, necessarily obliges them
to perform what is good. Immediately after he explains it even
more clearly ; for, speaking of St. Augustin, he says :
"
Nullo
modo principiis cjus consentaneum est, ut Christus vel pro Infi-
delium, vel pro Justorum non perseverantium aiterna salute
mortuus esse sentiatur." See, then, how Jansenius explains how
it is that our Saviour did not die for the just not predestined.
"When his proposition was, then, understood in this sense, it was
justly censured as heretical, as opposed both to Scripture and
Councils as to the first Council of Nice, for example, in which,
in the Symbol, or Profession of Faith (27), then promulgated,
and afterwards confirmed by several other General Councils, it
was decreed as follows :
"
Credimus in unum Deum Patrem
ct in unum Dom. Jesum Christum Filium Dei Qui propter
et propter nostram salutem descendit, et incarnatus
nos homines ;
est, et homo factus ; passus est, et resurrexit," &c.
12. Let us consider the proposition in general, that Christ
did not die for all. Jansenius said it was an error against Faith
to assert that he did :
" Nee
enim juxta doctrinam Antiquorum
pro omnibus omnino Christus mortuus est, cum hoc potius tan-
quam crrorem a Fide Catholica abhorrentem doceant esse rcspu-
And this opinion, he adds, was an invention of the
endum" (28).
Semipelagians. Understanding it in this sense, it was fake and
(26) Janscn. I. 3 de Grat. Christ. (28) Jansen. I. 3, do Grat. Christ.
c. 21. c. 3.
(27) Chap. 4, art. 1, n. 16.